Documents Issued In Your Home Country:
Note:
PRA = Permanent Residence Application;
PRS= Permanent Resident Status
1. PRA Form: PRA for investors, annuity recipients, or retirees (please print it and fill it out in Spanish. Please read its instructions first. Consulates of Costa Rica should accept it. Acrobat Reader is required to view or print this form in Portable Document Format (PDF).)
2. PRA Submission Power of Attorney: (please print it and fill it out in Spanish*. Please read its instructions first. Acrobat Reader is required to view or print this form in Portable Document Format (PDF).)
*It must be written in Spanish stating personal and contact information of your attorney (the person to whom you give the power of attorney). This power of attorney is for someone to submit your Permanent Residence Application on your behalf at your nearest Consulate of Costa Rica - only in case you cannot submit and sign your application in person. This power of attorney must be notarized by a U.S./Canadian public notary, and authenticated by a Consul of Costa Rica.
3. Standard PRA Follow-Up Procedures Power of Attorney for one person or PRA Follow-Up Procedures Power of Attorney for a family with children under 18 years old (please print the one that applies to you and fill it out in Spanish. Please read its instructions first. Acrobat Reader is required to view or print this form in Portable Document Format (PDF).)
* It must be written in Spanish stating the contact information of your power of attorney attorney - a citizen or perment resident of Costa Rica - living legally and permanently in downtown San Jose, Costa Rica authorizing him/her to act on your behalf at the Immigration Department in Costa Rica regarding your case. It must be signed before a Consul of Costa Rica or at the Consulate of Costa Rica.
4. Original Birth Certificate (yours and that of your dependents, if any)
5. Police Record (yours and that of your dependants older than 16 years old. See Police Record Documents)
6. Marriage Certificate (if applicable)
7. Academic degrees or equivalent (if applicable)
8. Certified copies of all passport pages issued by a Consul of Costa Rica, a Costa Rican notary public in Costa Rica, or your home country notary public ** (yours and that of your dependents)
9. Proof of enrollment in an accredited School/University - for any of your dependants who are students attending a School/University and are between 19 and 25 years old.
10. Income Source Certification (See Income Source Certification)
11. A recent face forward view passport sized photograph (Enclose four original photographs; Costa Rican passport size photographs are 4.5 cm high X 3.5 cm wide (1.77 in. high X 1.37 in. wide)(yours and that of your dependants)
** If certification is issued by your home country notary public, you will be required to the signature of the foreign notary public at the Consulate of Costa Rica. Thus, it is less expensive and more convenient to let the Consul of Costa Rica issue your certification.
All of the above documents -except the photographs - from your home country must be:
- Translated into Spanish (either in your home country by a Registered translator, by a Costa Rican translator certified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Costa Rica, or by a Costa Rican notary public who speaks the language and certifies the translation)
- by a Consul of Costa Rica at your nearest Consulate of Costa Rica
- Issued thirty days prior to your application submission date
- No more than three months old after their issuance date. If the document validity expires before your application is submitted, your application will be denied and you will need to file a new one
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