That’s a feature not a bug, I think.
You can buy permanent residence in Costa Rica for $5000-ish.
And all of this is for an activity that most countries would be fine with you doing on a tourist visa. It’s pointless.
Their airline was quite popular as a cheap route between Europe and North America, and again, lots of otherwise passengers can’t/won’t make that journey.
I don’t see the appeal. It seems completely pointless to me. It’s basically targetting only wealthy countries outside of the EU, like Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand.
And in that case, why would I bother with visa and the paperwork just to be able to stay for 90 days longer?
It’s basically like applying for a B1/B2 visa for the US if you’re from a VWP country. You can do it, but why in the gods name would you?
> It’s basically like applying for a B1/B2 visa for the US if you’re from a VWP country. You can do it, but why in the gods name would you?
If your esta gets rejected.
Some countries of citizenship will require you to declare your domicile elsewhere, but in virtually all of those cases a post box in Costa Rica and registering a business there will suffice.
Also doesn’t work for US nationals, because US taxes all green card holders and citizens irrespective of actual residence
Well, now you can do that.