www.CostaRicaTicas.com

From Yahoo Groups: CRL




Caution:

This may be a case of a perpetual tourist paying someone to illegally stamp their passport and an angry ex employer "ratting out."

CRL is like CRT Do not believe everything posted.

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Alex Levine

10/4

Over and Out

If you are on a 90 day tourist visa are you permitted to Work?

As I understand it, you are not. You can visit and tour up to 90 days then you have to leave for a minimum of 72 hours.

I you are found to have violated these restrictions, you can be deported and not permitted to return for 10 years.

I am sure ID will provide accurate details. Interesting commentary about what you read on CRT considering his posting nature.

Of course you cannot work on a tourist visa.

I wonder how long the couple in the story had overstayed.

Starting a few yrs back CR starting using a computer system to log in entries, before that is was just a paper. So I would not pay someone for just a stamp. It seems to me that the entries would have to be in the computer system also. You would in far more trouble having a false stamp than to just overstay. Although I certainly would not reccommend overstaying either.

Has anyone ever heard of anyone getting into trouble for just being a perpetual tourist.

Every board needs a guy like ID to call BS when appropriate. Most of the stuff I hear from gringos is false. This stuff gets passed around until everyone believes it.

Zman,

You are absolutely correct in that Costa Rica uses a computer system just as the USA does. Your pasport is swiped and thus recorded each time you inter or leave. Having a fake stamp would be of no value except for maybe fooling the local police. Even this would only work as lomg as they do not check the computer. I did not notice till I got to my daughter's this trip that neither CR nor the US stamped my passport, but I did see both swipe it so I am not worried. I will thou make sure that when I return to CR in a couple of weeks that they stamp my passport so I can make a copy of the entry stamp to carry with my copy of my passport.

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Yes technology can be your friend.

A buddy of mine got his ass kicked late one night /early one morning in one of the tico neighborhoods for running his mouth. Typical of this dude but he has redeeming qualities that make up for being the occassional ugly americano.

The cops came, broke up the fight, cuffed him and stuffed him and took him away. They got him the hell out of the mob and probably saved his worthless life. Stopped and uncuffed him and asked where he was staying so they could take him home.

Well our boy pitches a fit and tells the cops that he wants to file warrants on the ticos that just kicked his ass. So the cops take him to the station. Our boy aint too smart.

At the station, again cuffed in front, the desk sgt. asks for his passport. Our Boy (he has 3 F's in his name) hands over a blood stained (from the ass kicking he is bleeding and it gets on the document) black and white copy of his passport. He has no date stamp to go with it.

The Desk Sgt. takes the bloody document (w/o latex gloves) and keys in the numbers of the passport. Our hero is in county for under 90 days and there must not have been any other warrants or BS.

The Desk Sgt. instructs the cops to throw his ass back in the car and take him home. He invites the cops to stop at the next open bar for a couple of rounds (2:30 AM). Cops state they are on duty and can't but would happily take the applicable cash value.

So the computers work pretty damn well in CR too.

For the record. According to the post on CRL they are NOT being deported for overstaying their tourist visa. They are NOT being deported for working illegally. They are being deported for "falsifying a legal document "

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Alex Levine

So predictable

I just went to the states and was about 8 months over my visa... no problems, but i won't do it again.. i was nervous about going anywhere before i left for the states.

8 months in CR Lucky bastard

The computer system they use to swipe your passport is not the computer system that records your visa. The swipe system is the Interpol computer that's used to detect if there is an interpol warrant for your arrest.

They do have computers, but they have people in the back rooms that enter the forms you fill out manually. They are typically several weeks behind at any given time and are not very reliable. At one point they were something like 6 months behind, but I think they've become a lot better.

When you leave CR or the USA they do not stamp your passport. On entries they do.

All these idiots had to do was leave CR for 72 hours and come back in. But I guess that would have been too much work. They tried the easy way out and now they get an escort out of town.