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Two kinds of thing. Findings are what turned up in an instrument that is not in the guidance written about it, and each carries the quotations it rests on. News is what changed here - a country added, a method revised. The date is the day the work was done, not the day it was written up.
2026-10-08Finding
Chile converts driving licences with nine countries, and the Argentine border reads differently from each sideNine treaties in force and one signed without entering into force. Under some of them you hand your licence over for good; under others you keep it, and which you get depends on the country rather than on you.
Chile
Argentina
Peru2026-10-05Finding
Nicaragua abolished its retirement residence in a tourism law, and everyone is still selling itThe statute that created the pensionado and rentista routes was repealed outright in August 2024. The legislature's own site still serves the whole repealed text, with the repeal noted in one line at the foot.
Nicaragua2026-10-04Finding
CA-4 is two instruments, and almost everything written about it conflates themThree researchers read the Central American instruments separately and all three landed on the same distinction. It is not the one the phrase "CA-4 free movement" suggests.
Guatemala
El Salvador
Honduras2026-10-04News
Six countries added, and the map stops being South AmericaMexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Panama are published, each to the same depth as the nine already here.
MexicoGuatemalaEl SalvadorHonduras
Costa Rica
Panama2026-10-04Finding
El Salvador taxes territorially, and the law still prints the opposite headingThe income tax law has an article titled Worldwide income. Underneath it, the article has been repealed, and the heading stayed.
El Salvador2026-10-04Finding
Honduras: the law grants residence on marriage at once, the regulation demands three yearsTwo Honduran instruments answer the same question differently, and the one that adds the condition is the one with less authority to add it.
Honduras2026-10-04Finding
Paraguay's regulator permits what every guide calls impossibleRelocation agencies are unanimous that you must be in Paraguay in person to open a bank account. The regulation says the whole procedure may be carried out remotely.
Paraguay2026-10-04Finding
Peru has no route by descent, and the family link runs upwardGuides place Peru beside Argentina and Italy as a country you can reach through a grandparent. Neither the law nor its regulation contains such a route, and the one that exists points the other way.
Peru2026-09-27Finding
Argentina's ancestry route reaches one generation, and a dead article still reads as liveThe law recognises permanent residence for the child of an Argentine born abroad. The words for grandchild and ascendant do not appear in it at all.
Argentina2026-09-27News
Every number on the site now has to have a quotation behind itThe quotation check proves an excerpt is genuine. It never proved that a number we stated was one of the things quoted. Now something does.
2026-09-22Finding
Uruguay has no retiree route, and that is the answerArgentina, Colombia and Ecuador all publish a monthly figure a pensioner can check before applying. Uruguay publishes none, because the category does not exist.
Uruguay2026-09-20Finding
Colombia's 180-day ceiling counts from the visa, not from your arrivalNinety days extendable by ninety is the part everyone repeats. The ceiling behind it is counted from a date most travellers never think about.
Colombia