Comments on: panama tells tourists - go home!

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[...] Jun 8, 2007 panama tells tourists – go home! [...]

By: tejano

tejano — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:01:12 +0000

so which visa are you currently sporting Cojito?

By: cojito

cojito — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:48:02 +0000

the law’s been changed again.

right now you can stay for 3 months only. you can’t renew your visa. but i think you can still take the bus to san jose for a long weekend, and then come back for another 3 months.

if your dad is from panama it might be easier to become legal. talk to a lawyer.

By: PRINCE ARES BLESS

PRINCE ARES BLESS — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:21:59 +0000

so is there any way around this?? ive ben thinking of relocating tpo Panamá for years but havent found a way i am not rich my father is from P anamá i have always wanted to go please help me

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:36:46 +0000

you back to where you came from jerk

By: tman

tman — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:16:08 +0000

Good article here…puts the correct spin and dark humor on a very sad situation in Panama. How do you think this will affect the BILLIONS of dollars being invested in high rises and seasonal housing? There was already a question concerning WHO is going to buy and live in all these condos in Panama? Now…this hideous, ridiculous immigration move could bring the whole thing crumbling down. I dont believe there are enough boomers and foreigners ready to RESIDE in Panama full time. So…I too have to now sweat my investments and time spent in Panama until someone powerful in the country comes to their senses and changes this policy. Otherwise you will see planes of foreigners exiting…and not entering…this potentially beautiful country. Sad that so many Panamanians have their heads in the sand on these realities.

By: vieja

vieja — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:16:48 +0000

If you have residency in Panama and you are a foreigner you must have the entry/exit visa stamp in your passport to leave and reenter Panama. Now it is for 2 years and costs $100. You can go and come as many times as you like in that 2 years. This did not exist when I came to Panama. You can imagine how angry some foreigners who had been in Panama for 20, 30 or 50 years, were about this new requirement.

By: Old Salt

Old Salt — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:33:56 +0000

I don’t know about Panama’s multi-entry visa, but back in ‘89 I got a job as captain of a large sailboat located on the French Riviera (hey, somebody was going to do it, why not me?)

what I got from the french consulate in miami was a five-year multiple-entry visa. That meant that for five years i could enter france but could only stay for 45 days at a time. then i had to leave and re-enter and could do it as many times as i wanted for five years.

since the boat was located in antibes, a town between cannes and nice, it wasn’t any hardship. hop on the train and take a scenic hour-long ride, to ventimiglia, italy on the border, have a wonderful lunch and be home in the afternoon. no big deal.