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Well dear ole Laura has been President for a couple of months and with the exception of a few immigration raids...nothing has changed.
Does anyone have any "fresh"info on the status of we "perpetual tourists? I am going to Panama next week for my usual 90 day out. Will I be strung up when I try to come home. Will immigration approve me for another 90 days, or will they only give me one for 30 days to push me to get my residency?
As usual,the passing of laws here in CR is very easy,but enforcing them is the problem. I hope they realise that we perpetual tourists take next to nothing from CR,but contribute most of our income and savings here.

VB,

The last time I went to Panama (by land) I had a small problem at the border on my return! Not really a problem but when I got to the window I was asked how long I planned on staying in CR. I had heard that if you said only a week or two they were only giving people a 30 day visa so I said "two and a half months". She then asked me for my return ticket out of CR. My responce "What? I have crossed here many times and never had to have one before! Is this something new?" She points at signs (several were on the walls). I had to return to the bus company's office a block away, buy a return ticket ($15 and good for 90 days), then return and wait in line again. With the return ticket, I got a 90 day visa, no problem.

Along the same lines:

I just read on a blog that several people had been required to pay $300 (grand thief by immergration officials?)in order to return to CR from Nicaragua!!! Has anyone heard about this????

Also how it the taxi strike and resultant conflict and fighting in Granada now? Is it still dangerous there?

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Might be different crossing the borders by land, but I had no problem whatsoever when I came back into the country on June 4th. I do keep an open bus ticket to Nicaragua now just in case.