Exit Visa for one year for Residents

Submitted by ptiffer on Tue, 2012/02/07 - 19:37.

Exit Visa for one year.

The new immigration law allows the Immigration Department to issue a Multiple Exit Visa to residents for a maximum time of one year, instead of six months as the previous law established. The advantage is during one year any resident – legal resident under condition one or two, investor, retirees or any other status – can come and go without any limitation, just the payment of the Exit Visa during one year. This Multiple Exit Visa must be paid in the Immigration department near “Carretera Norte" or north highway. At the airport, only the Ordinary Exit Visa is available – it allows you to leave just once. The cost of the Multiple Exit Visa is C$ 1,600 Cordoba (less than $ 70.00), however; it must be paid in Cordoba, they don´t accept US dollars. Obtaining the Exit Visa is mandatory to any foreigner who gets Residency in Nicaragua, and it is quite simple. Just complete a one page form – in Spanish – and make the payment. It could be for one, for three, six months or even one year. In the main cities there is a branch of the Immigration Department. In Granada for example, it is near Sandino´s park. In my opinion they will be able to sell the Multiple Exit Visa too.

Paul Tiffer Attorney at Law ptiffer@cablenet.com.ni

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THANKS FOR THIS VALUABLE

Submitted by Dorite on Wed, 2012/02/08 - 03:32.

INFORMATION!!!

As usual, on top of your game.

Submitted by Juanno on Tue, 2012/02/07 - 20:10.

Great info thank you. I know a few people who spend a lot of time in the air that will benefit from this.

Thanks to you Juanno

Submitted by ptiffer on Tue, 2012/02/07 - 21:05.

Yes Indeed the law, allow to residents go and forth, so it will be less anoying to buy a Multiple Exit Visa for one year, especially when complete the form in Spanish is a problem for someones.

Best Regards

Paul Tiffer

Is An Exit

Submitted by KeyWestPirate on Wed, 2012/02/08 - 08:26.

visa a common requirement in other countries?

Do Nicaragua citizens also have to obtain an exit visa when they leave Nicaragua?

Not that big a deal, just curious.

Clearly, a year's availability is a bonus for frequent travelers.

Not a permission

Submitted by fyl on Wed, 2012/02/08 - 12:00.

When I first heard about this (before I had residency) I viewed it as needing permission. That is not the case. It is just a tax. I have no idea how the government justifies it but there are expenses related to residents leaving the country. Specifically, every time you leave (and re-enter) a record is kept.

Costa Rica has an assortment of fees but not this specific one for resident non-nationals.

Not any more

Submitted by ptiffer on Wed, 2012/02/08 - 11:12.

Nicaraguans doesn´t have to pay for an Exit Visa any more, it was required several years ago. Just minors Nicaraguans needs to apply for an Exit Visa, but that is for other reasons, even if children are traveling with their parents.

Best Regards,

Paul Tiffer

Err, Maria says they wanted $34 for Nica Passport holder

Submitted by Juanno on Wed, 2012/02/08 - 12:11.

$30 pre pay at Banpro and $4 at the border. She used a "Permiso" instead - $50 cords.

Can you comment?

We just went to the

Submitted by upfront on Wed, 2012/02/08 - 18:29.

We just went to the Caribbean and he (traveling on Nica passport) paid nothing upon leaving Nicaragua.

depends

Submitted by Islander on Wed, 2012/02/08 - 08:55.

Is an Exit visa a common requirement in other countries?"

Ask a Cuban? Or a North Korean? Anyone wanting to leave such socialist paradises are immediately suspect and probably Enemies of the State.

In Nicaragua, I've always had the impression the Exit visa requirement was something akin to "Soak the 1%-Lite". If you have enough money to leave, great, pay us for the privilege. Something like a use-tax without the logic to back it up.

What you pay a lot of places is airport tax

Submitted by oncidiumfan on Wed, 2012/02/08 - 11:38.

El Salvador appears to hit up even passengers in transit for $40 something.

Cuba will allow out more people than the US allows in (the Cubans seem to have realized that if most of the population likes life as it is, letting the people who don't like it makes life and governing even smoother). North Korea has people leaving in all directions, including to China and probably also Russia, so if they let everyone out that didn't want to be there, probably they'd have a population of 50,000, who'd then leave themselves because they'd actually have to do something

I paid C$ 70 or so for the exit visa last year -- if it's doubled, it's C$140, $6 dollars. Given that we're not paying taxes other than IVA here, that's really not an imposition.

Rebecca Brown

New cost

Submitted by ptiffer on Wed, 2012/02/08 - 12:03.

According the Immigration law from 2011, Law # 761 called: LEY GENERAL DE MIGRACION Y EXTRANJERÍA, the new cost are: 1. Visa Ordinary - to go out just once - C$ 200. 2. Mutiple Visa: A. for 3 months: C$ 400. B. for 6 months: C$ 800 C. for 1 years: C$ 1,600.

Best Regards

Paul Tiffer

new fee

Submitted by Billy Bob on Thu, 2012/02/09 - 09:03.

200 cords was posted at the airport when i went thru there in November. Cordovas only. No paperwork to speak of on your end --hand them the money and say ``visa de salida.``

Yes, I think it is just a nuisance tax, not a diabolical conspiracy.

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." Ayn Rand

The fee seemed fairly

Submitted by NicaWannabe on Thu, 2012/02/23 - 13:17.

The fee seemed fairly reasonable to me. have run across it most places I have been, even cruises if you check your invoice closely you will find that port taxes and entry and exit fees are built into your fare. Much more convenient than Cuba where the fee must be in US$. At least it was last time I was there.

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