The Copperhead was the first one of our group to file for his residency and get his “in tramite” visa. I was second, and Borko, who showed up a year later, was last.
On Monday I collected my new permanent Cedula at the DNIC. On Friday, exactly 1 year after arriving in Uruguay, or go will get his permanent Cedula. The Copperhead has been notified that his permanent residency has been granted, but he does not yet have an appointment to get his permanent Cedula.
It took me a bit under two years to get my residency. It took Copperhead a bit over two years to get his residency. But it only took Borko a year to get his. Why?
We made some mistakes when we started and we followed bad advice. After months of getting nowhere we switched to someone who could really do the job. When they reviewed our files they found all kinds of technical problems, and had we not hired them, we might still be mired in the bureaucracy. As it stands, because of the terrible “professional advice” we got, neither myself nor Copperhead were able to take advantage of the ability to bring in household goods duty-free within the first six months–for us, that is gone forever.
Borko was different–we started him out with real professionals. Granted, he wasn’t able to bring in household goods either, but that was simply because we didn’t think they would allow him to bring in the machinery to distill Serbian grappa here in Uruguay…
I hope all of my readers profit from my stupid mistakes, and don’t make the same ones. I would far prefer that they make other stupid mistakes that I can write about.
So are you going to tell us who this miracle worker is?
>> I answered this question privately by e-mail.
Left by rabble on February 20th, 2008
Hi Southron….We would like to bring in household goods duty free.
Perhaps you can clarify the following situation.
The Casa we purchased in MVD was purchased in the name of a Canadian Corp. I have been told that as a result of this type of ownership I do not qualify for duty free exemption of our household goods.
I had been of the opinion that the exemption of duty applied to residency being granted in Uruguay.
Any help would be greatly appreciated and perhaps the contact details of this MIRACLE WORKER would help.
Regards
Robert Hunter
>>The duty exemption is tied to being granted residency under the “rentista” category where you demonstrate at least US$500 per month income from investments or pensions outside Uruguay. Sorry it took so long to get this answer.
The Southron
Left by knevery on February 22nd, 2008