Useful links for newbies

16239POSTS

12 years ago

Hi,

Here are a few links which may help you whether you would like to settle or already live in Costa Rica.
Feel free to complete the list!

Costa Rica immigration services
http://www.migracion.go.cr/

Embassy of the United States in Costa Rica
http://costarica.usembassy.gov/

British embassy in Costa Rica
https://www.gov.uk/government/world/costa-rica

Cost of living in Costa Rica
www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

Doing business
Costa Rica Investment Promotion Agency
http://www.cinde.org/

Costa Rica Chambers of industries
http://www.cicr.com/

Costa Rica-American Chamber of commerce
http://www.amcham.co.cr/

4 members reacted to this post

See also

Getting around Heredia - Guide
Used car purchases - 2 Replies
Hi, another newbie question - 9 Replies
Newbie Interested in Finding Like-Minded Sustainable Community - 7 Replies
Newby, Lake Arenal region - 3 Replies
The best services to use when moving to Costa Rica - 2 Replies
Use Waze, skip GPS? - 6 Replies

missrubyrubs New member

4POSTS

10 years ago

this is helpful. thanks!

GuestPoster0987 Guest

0POSTS

9 years ago

Here are a several more links that I have found to be useful:

Driver's Licenses for Foreigners:
https://www.csv.go.cr/web/cosevi/homolo … extranjera

Riteve (Annual auto Inspection):
http://www.rtv.co.cr/

Registro Nacional Online Access (home and auto legal document verification):
http://www.rnpdigital.com/oficinas_regionales/index.htm

General Info on various CR laws:
http://costaricalaw.com/

Approx driving times between CR cities:
http://www.yourtravelmap.com/costarica/ … width=1280

Car prices and availability (new & used):
http://crautos.com/

2 members reacted to this post

PC Handy New member

4POSTS

7 years ago

Thanks for the resources, Julie. Two things; one you need to update the US Embassy site to https://cr.usembassy.gov/ and next, I visited the Costa Rica Immigration site, but it all seems to be in Spanish, and my Spanish is too limited to learn anything from it. Do you know if there is a similar site in English? Thanks!

1 member reacted to this post

Justagirl8870 Contributor

176POSTS

6 years ago

Thank you for posting this! This is a valuable resource!

fillyexpend Member

2POSTS

6 years ago

Thanks for sharing.

GuestPoster0987 Guest

0POSTS

6 years ago

rainagain Serial expat

323POSTS

last year

@Julie

One more to add. After you get 'forced' to join the National Healthcare system in order to finalize your Residency Process... it is a good idea to go onto the official

'Caja' website and register to use it. Below is the web address for CCSS (Caja).

I found that the 'Salary' page is a good one to download and save as pdf so that you can print it out when you need to show proof of paying your Caja monthly payments for Cedula renewals; etc.

www.ccss.sa.cr/contacto