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Understanding the residency process in Uruguay
Lee  | | Here is a photo of the main immigration office in Montevideo. This is where you file for residency (or an extension of your tourist status) | The residency process in Uruguay takes you from being a tourist to being a legal resident. Unlike some countries, there is no in between stage of getting a residence visa or temporary residence. During the process you are consider "en tramite" (in process). The complete process will probably take at least a year, it could take two or more. During the process you can spent all your time in Uruguay or leave the country. The end result will be an Uruguayan ID card that looks the same as the ones Uruguayan's have. The immigration office in Montevideo is located at: Misiones 1513 in Cuidad Vieja. Here are the residency requirements in Spanish. And the Immigration Fees (there are other fees for your ID card and document legalization).
All documents from outside Uruguay, needed for the process will needed to be legalized (that process is described in another article) and translated to Spanish by an public translator.
This is what you will need - Your birth certificate
- Your marriage certificate, if applicable
- Proof of income (minimum US$500 per month)
- Criminal history. For Americans a report from the USA and anywhere else you've lived in the past 5 years. Other nationality maybe more complicated, for example, Colombians need a report from Colombia and everywhere they ever lived. For Americans who are moving from the USA, simply give your fingerprints and US$18 to Interpol in Montevideo. The Montevideo Interpol office is located at Mercedes 977 in Centro (downtown), Phone: +598-2-900-5921. As an alternative to going to Interpol you can also get a copy of your criminal history from the FBI and then have it legalized and translated.
- An Escribana. This is a professional like a notary or attorney who will review your proof of income and prepare a document for immigration.
- A health exam
- An appointment with Immigration
You may wish to start with #7 as you may not get an appointment for a number of weeks or months and that will give you time to get everything else in order.
This is the basic process. Please view the other article on legalizing your documents, as this assumes you have already completed that process for documents 1, 2 and 3 above. For #4 if you make use of Interpol in Montevideo there is nothing more necessary.
Your birth certificate and marriage certificates will be filed in the Uruguayan Department of Vital Records (Dirección General del Registro de Estado Civil. Uruguay 933, entre (between) calles Convención y Río Branco, de Lunes a Viernes de 11:30 a 16:30 horas. Teléfonos: 900 50 85, o 900 21 54, o 908 62 74.). The result being an Uruguayan equivalent of each document. You simply file your legalized copied and receive a note with a file #. Save that file # as locating these records in the future without it can be quite a task.
Present your proof of income to an Escribana so you can have the income statement prepared for immigration. It is wise to talk with your Escribana before you get your proof of income statement legalized and translated. Find out exactly what the Escribana wants to see. Otherwise you might be redoing the documents. You have to satisfy the Escribana. The Escribana has to satisfy immigration.
It would be wise to select an Escribana that has worked regularly with immigration so they are aware of the exact wording immigration wants.
The health exam is quite simple and can be done at any of the clinics. Just tell them you need it for residency. There will be a general exam, including blood and urine tests, a look at your teeth and a lot of health questions. You'll also be asked if you have a current tetanus shot. After you have completed the examination you'll receive a paper and ID card. Immigration will keep that id card.
Once you have your health exam id card and income statement from the Escribana your ready for your appointment.
[I'm not sure if interpol should be done before or after... I did mine after]
At your immigration appointment you'll present your "tourist card," health id card, income statement and finger prints. If you don't speak Spanish take someone along that does! In some cases at your first appointment with immigration you'll leave with the papers to get an ID card (in tramite). In other cases you have to wait.
It doesn't matter. Your residency process will be underway and you are able to stay in the country. When applying for residency immigration will keep your "tourist card". If you want to leave Uruguay you'll need to get a "permission to leave and reenter" from immigration. I would suggest asking for this when you first apply for residency.
Once your residency process is started you can stay in Uruguay. You are not limited by the 90 day stamp you receive when you entered.
Now you just wait and hope immigration doesn't want you to have any of your papers redone, like the income statement.
Some areas people have run into frustration
- Name changes not recorded on Birth Certificate
- Birth Certificate showing state, but not country of issue
- Not wanting to be obligated to have a tetanus vaccination
- Immigration rejecting the wording of the Escribana's income statement
- Immigration not accepting an officially translated document claiming that it makes no sense
- Documents "expiring" after legalization
The main advantage of filing for your residency without an consultant or attorney is you can save a great deal of money. You just have to pay the minimal immigration fees. You will probably learn about the bueacraucy of Uruguay as well, or to put it another way, experience tremendous frustrations.
There may many residency consultants and attorneys that can handle the process for you as well. Just make sure that understand the process and how much of the document legalization you need to do, and how much they do.
Understanding the residency process in Uruguay
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