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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 12:18 pm 
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I may be mistaken, but this is not new "NEWS"! This same thing (verbatum I think) was published several months ago.

If that's the case, then I apologize for posting it. :oops: I just read it this morning in today's edition of Inside Costa Rica, and I thought it was good info to post. Here's the link:

http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynew ... 092802.htm

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 12:36 pm 
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One thing I think we can all agree on. Nowadays it is really stupid to overstay the 90 day visa. Just asking for trouble.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 1:14 pm 
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BangBang57 wrote:
I may be mistaken, but this is not new "NEWS"! This same thing (verbatum I think) was published several months ago.

If that's the case, then I apologize for posting it. :oops: I just read it this morning in today's edition of Inside Costa Rica, and I thought it was good info to post. Here's the link:

http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynew ... 092802.htm

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MG, no problem with posting it! I too read it this morning and, yes it was published as if it were "new" news. When I read it, my instant reaction was "why are they "republishing" this now?? But thou I can not fine the original news article (I think it was originally in Tico Times), I am sure it was talked about before and virtually virbatum.
But it is a good reminder to everyone not to over stay their visa.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:58 pm 
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While the new regulation with it's penalties for overstaying your tourist visa is old news I do not recall any article that gave a date for enforcement of that policy.

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However, the immigration service has yet to enforce this overstay rule and according to immigration officials tourists who have overstayed their visa period will not be required to pay. Not yet anyways, but will be required to do so when the law is expected to be enforced before the middle of December. Currently, Costa Rican authorities at the San José airport are checking the entry stamp at the security check point which occurs after paying the exit tax and given a boarding pass by the airline.


I would think that qualifies as current news.

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Mucho Gusto wrote:
BangBang57 wrote:
I may be mistaken, but this is not new "NEWS"! This same thing (verbatum I think) was published several months ago.

If that's the case, then I apologize for posting it. :oops: I just read it this morning in today's edition of Inside Costa Rica, and I thought it was good info to post. Here's the link:

http://www.insidecostarica.com/dailynew ... 092802.htm

Admin1 - If this is old news, then feel free to delete the thread. :|
Whether or not this is new "news", reinforcement never hurts, and wasn't this freshened and brought forward appropriately as the December deadline is publicized and grows closer? In other words, we're all in agreement on the basics. Good going, Brother MG.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:33 pm 
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What I gathered from Greengo's voiced vision is--Great Expectations is a book; great expectorations is Costa Rica.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:47 pm 
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Great Expectations? Reasonable Expectations?...cmon amigos ..this is costa rica...a lie... wrapped in misery...floundering in an enema...to elevate all this happy horseshit to gringothink first world expectations would make PiP look like look like a wall street baracuda fuckingEstrella on a mall escalator sporting a revolving neon butt plug...if ones trying to make gringo sense of the chaotic familial clusterfuck of a legal system and government .. genetic inferiority..and cowardice that comprise the tico pysche you better be packin some really low expectations...


It's kind of rude to suggest that Costa Rica or any country is genetically inferior to the U.S. We've been through that war before on the supposedly genetically inferior side (WWII), and it's not pretty.

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...doesnt make any difference if youre a resident or a citizen or just a schlub on the street when the army of cowardly backstabbing asslickers come for your stuff and life in costa rica ...its just your turn in the barrel ...most of you are like me ...if they get your stuff its not worth wiping ones ass with ...all the uncertainty and pandemonium... glacial pace horror flick stabbing and floundering of the local yocal patrons and window gazing gringos at sad cinema cafe is just part of the snickering and farting population of the senile upper class playing the boss and those spending grannies money in stores and sports bars in their only pair of shoes and other shirt ..unaware theres anything worth fightin for while brave Americans around the world are heroically fighting dying and kickingass so their K*ds can one day stomp out and piss on everything mindless marxist parasitic shitholes like costa rica represent...


I thought we were fighting ultra conservative religious fanatics in Afghanistan who themselves put a beating on actual Commies back in the '80s. And suggesting that Costa Rica is anywhere near Marxist is pretty silly and not supported at all by the facts on the ground.

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...if one wants to deal in realities lets run these motherfuckers over into nicaragua and make it a "Gringa Free" state of the US..just let a small trickle of ticas in on a monthly basis ...15 days at a time ...to correspond with the absence of pms and menstrual cycles.... :D :D :D :D


I could be reading this wrong, but are you suggesting a repeat of William Walker and filibustering as it was known back then? He ended up against a wall, executed in Hondurous.

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William Walker convinced many Southerners of the desirability of creating a slave-holding empire in tropical Latin America...
In Central American countries, the successful military campaign of 1856-1857 against William Walker became a source of national pride and identity, and it was later promoted by local historians and politicians as substitute for the war of independence that Central America had not experienced. April 11 is a Costa Rican national holiday in memory of Walker's defeat at Rivas. Juan Santamaría, who played a key role in that battle, is honored as the Costa Rican national hero.


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Greengo,
It's way easier to understand your posts than to understand why the hell you choose to stay in Costa Rica. If you have such utter disdain for the country, why don't you leave?

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It's way easier to understand your posts than to understand why the hell you choose to stay in Costa Rica. If you have such utter disdain for the country, why don't you leave?

+ 1 But then he is far from being the only gringo living in Costa Rica (and some for many years) who absolutely seem to hate the country, the people, the government, the etc. etc. etc. They talk for hours about everything bad about CR; never have anything good to say about anything CR; BUT THEY ARE STILL HERE AFTER SOMETIMES MANY YEARS!! :? :? :?: :?: :roll:

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:56 pm 
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It's way easier to understand your posts than to understand why the hell you choose to stay in Costa Rica. If you have such utter disdain for the country, why don't you leave?


He stays for the chicas no doubt.

I generally like reading Greengo's posts, if only to try to figure out what they mean and what he is referring to :D :D :D

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BangBang57 wrote:
I may be mistaken, but this is not new "NEWS"! This same thing (verbatum I think) was published several months ago.

As for them checking the entry stamp, I do not believe I have ever NOT had my last entry stamp checked (normal proceedure). Other countries do the same thing. In fact, when returning on my last trip to Panama, the officer (Panamanian) kept looking at an old stamp ((6 months old) and told me I had a serious problem and needed to come inside the office. I showed him the correct stamp (4 days old) and he apologized. Only those who have over stayed their 90 days (in other words, those breaking the law) should have reason to be concerned.


I've never had them look at my stamp in detail in Costa Rica. Normally they look at the first page of my passport and the ticket and nod and hand it back. In Panama they seem to be a bit more thorough, although I heard they are now giving 6 month visas by default.. My experiences are only at the International airports.


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2. Issue perpetual tourists 30 day visas instead of the normal 90 days.


I seriously doubt they will ever go to this extent. What they accomplish by getting Gringo's 'into the system' and paying a few dollars of charity into the 'caja', they lose 10 fold (or more) in lost economic activity. The perpetual tourists are predominantly Gringos, as the other 'illegals' are generally on non-tourist visas. When you come in the country and they say 'how long', say 90 days and they will give you a 90 day stamp, its that simple. They have no reason not to as the 90 day law has never changed. No reason to be dishonest about staying for less time.


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The law clearly allows for perpetual tourists, and this is done intentionally. Its not some oversight and you are not beating the system by being a perpetual tourist. In the US for example the law specifically prohibits this, and a Canadian for instance can only spend 6 months of a CALENDER year without being considered illegal. I know Canadian snowbirds who have been reminded of this fact. Being a perpetual tourist is a totally legal status.


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The law clearly allows for perpetual tourists


There is no specific provision in the immigration law that allows or prohibits "perpetual tourists".

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When you come in the country and they say 'how long', say 90 days and they will give you a 90 day stamp, its that simple.


The immigration code allows citizens of the U.S. and some other countries to stay a maximum of 90 days. There is nothing automatic about that. It is left to the immigration officer at the point of entry to decide how many days up to the maximum to grant the traveler.

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That's assuming that said Canadian can even get in the US--nothing automatic about that and as tough as Canada is on US citizens trying to enter (I found out the hard way--6 hours in Canadian Immigration then an escort to the first US-bound plane--if I'd paid some attention to Canada's Website, I would not have tried--my bad), the US is tougher on Canadians. All post-9/11.
I hate it when entry and terms are optional and, up to the Immigration Officer--anywhere.

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