The simplest way to put it is that immigration regulations are to humans what cages are to birds. All throughout human history, the human species has been migrating from one place to another. Migration is inherent to human nature. Creating a barrier in the ocean preventing whales from migrating from one part to the ocean
In the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson stated that we (the people) have certain unalienable rights, such as Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. I do not want to elaborate into what were considered people at that time, but just to make my point, those rights are very simple and straight forward. On
The Rentista Category is a very popular category as it allows a significant number of people to obtain immigration status in Costa Rica. We receive a lot of inquiries about this category, and we are also able to see there is a lot of misinformation going around this category. So, let’s review it here.
It is part of our business to know what the competition is doing. We have noticed that some other immigration firms do not provide an accurate description of the government fees people have to pay in order to obtain temporary residency. We at Outlier Legal feel it is important for people know the amount of
00 We received a question from Donald Hickman which will be valuable to share with the readers. “Assume that someone established pensionado residency using a letter from a private pension in the States. At renewal time they have to provide another pension letter. But now the person is also getting Social Security. Could they just
The mass wedding on Valentine’s Day went well. We were able to marry 73 couples. Apparently, everyone had a great time. A lot of other people have had a lot of questions about the mass wedding. I would like to be able to answer all of the
The CCSS (or CAJA as it is generally known) has a regulation called the Registration Handbook or Manual de Adscripción y Beneficio Familiar, as it is called in Spanish. The purpose of this regulation is to set forth the requirements and processes to register people with the system, whether it is a principal beneficiary or
I wonder if ticos and expats understand each other, most likely, they don’t. Both of them look at each other through the prism of their idiosyncrasies. Expats try rationalize tico behavior and culture through their past experiences and culture, through the customs of their home country, and with a sense that “we know better”. On
