Here’s exactly how you can get where I am as well, step by step:
What you get (nearly same practical status as locals):
- Live in Paraguay indefinitely (card renewed every 10 years)
- Cédula (Paraguayan ID)
- Work freely, open bank accounts, get a RUC, sign contracts, buy property, get utilities & driver’s licence
- Enter/leave freely (re-enter at least once every 3 years)
- Permanent Residency (make sure to not be off paraguay for more than 3 years)
What you don’t get:
- No Paraguayan passport
- Voting rights only in municipal elections (not national)
- No eligibility for most public offices
- Still subject to the 3-year absence rule
1. Prepare the documents in your home country
- Valid passport (at least 6 months validity recommended)
- Birth certificate (apostilled)
- Police clearance / criminal record (for presentation abroad) (apostilled; must not be too old when you submit)
2. Contact a imigration Helper
Highly recommend starting with this before or while preparing the documents.
In theory this works without one, but I don't recommend it anybody. It will take a lot longer, you will need to find everything out yourself and need good spanisch.
I used
@ParaguayProfis
. If you message them, write them Schnuartz sent you. You don't pay extra but you support my work.
He will give you all the advice you need.
3. Cédula and Temporary Residency
- Bring everything mentioned + Do the staff your imigration helper told you
- Paraguay Profis will bring you to the imigration center.
- You need to do fingerprints, Foto, signature etc.
3-4 Month afterwards you will receive your Cédula (like a ID in Paraguay) + your temporary Residency.
-> They can send it to you or you via post to your country / a trustworthy person picks it up and brings to you.
Both last for about 2 years.
Costs:
~€2,2k for migration helper (includes Cedula etc) + flight (~€1k from Germany) + normal vaccation costs
4. Second trip (~365 days after the first one)
- Here the time Slot is very important. You do not want to risk to be more than 365 days outside of Paraguay. so try to set this trip exactly in the middle of the 3 trips you need to do.
- Before this trip contact your imigration helper to be sure you do everything right.
- It could be the case that some extra cost come here. Prepare €900
- Nothing special more, this is for having a stamp in your passport.
5. Third Trip (~365 days afterwards)
- Timeslot is very important as well. You have 90 day time window. BUT you don't want to be more than 365 days off Paraguay.
- Speak with your imigration Helper what you need before!
- Passport, Cedula, Residency, Police card (you will receive as well the last time) is minimum
- You are doing: New picture, new fingerprints and new signature
- You get:
->Permanent resedency for Paraguay (Here it's highly recommended to not be off Paraguay for more than 3 years. Otherwise it could taken from you in theory)
-> New Cedula that last for 10 years
- You will receive both under the conditions like last time after 3-4 month
- Cost is €1,7k
(6.) Bonus: Paraguay Consulting
- There is Lia. A German YouTuber with 7k Subs.
- She is a female Bitcoiner and does consulting for migration etc.
->
https://wohin-auswandern.com- Tell her that I (Schnuartz) sent you to her. So you get 15% off
[I'm not a professional. Ask your immigration helper about the details. Do not trust ChatGPT or simple Google Search about that topic. The informations there are often misleading]
