Criminal background check for T7 visa, yes or no

Hey Seoulguy. I have a T7 and never had a background check since I was heading to Colombia not Ecuador. But cancilleria.gov.co, is the official site and I checked and no mention of such -which you said too. I've never heard of the other site which you mentioned but I did have one of my Colombian friends check the official site and she said if it was true it would state it there. I will mention neither my friend or I are lawyers, or immigration experts.
Maybe someone that knows more than me will respond. I hope so as I've got to renew my T7 in a couple months.
Peace bro

Thanks for the reply. You're okay, it's no. I have check with and have a visa attorney in Medellin. So, now the problem is EPS and what "basic services" means.  I don't know your age, but the killing of Medicare is the impetus for my foray into CO.  I Rio Negro.  Are you in a smaller town outside of Medellin.  I don't think I can stand the traffic and confusion there.  I have lived and worked in Mexico City, so I know what I'm talking about.  Looking for a small town with the necessary amenities, maybe Laguna de Guatape.

Well that's good news. I live in a barrio, San Antonio of Rionegro. It's i think a great place, beautiful, friendly people, pretty safe and great modern med care. Guatepe certainly beautiful with the giant rock and huge lake.
I like visiting there but no idea about the local med care there. I would guess with all the current construction of gazillion peso houses and communities there they would have good med care...but I'm only guessing.

seoulguy wrote:

the killing of Medicare is the impetus for my foray into CO.

The death of Medicare is a fiction.

As Paul Krugman recently opined in his recent and cogent critique of the Medicare issue, Medicare is more efficient than private insurance because it doesn't spend on advertising and because it isn't required to make a profit, and therefore...

Despite recent rumblings, the push to cut or privatize Medicare will fail once the public realizes the efficient nature of this program on which so many seniors depend*.

IMO anyone who is bailing on the U.S. or moving to Colombia or another country based on ‘Mediscare' is ‘jumping the gun'. 

There are plenty of valid reasons to move overseas, but fear of Medicare's supposed impending death is not one of them.

cccmedia

*Krugman's essay “The Medicare Killers" appeared in the New York Times and nytimes.com, dated November 18, 2016.  Krugman is a Nobel Prize-winning economist.