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Dirección General de Migración y Extranjería (Costa Rica)

Applies the rule

Costa Rica's migration directorate. It decides applications, publishes the requirement lists applicants work from, and issues the Directrices Generales de Visas, which are a real instrument published in La Gaceta rather than guidance.

The body that applies the rule and decides applications. It publishes what it requires, which is authoritative about its own practice but is not the text of the law.

www.migracion.go.cr

Cannot be cited for

Its procedure pages are excellent evidence of what the agency asks for and unreliable evidence of what the law requires, and on 4 October 2026 the two diverged in writing: its rentista requirement list still reproduced wording superseded in February 2023. It must also not be cited for the current text of the Reglamento de Extranjería - the copy it hosts is annotated as carrying only the 2022 reform and predates the 2023 repeal of articles 87 to 93. Access note: Cloudflare returns 403 to ordinary clients and Firecrawl gets through, so an empty reading from here is a block rather than a change.

Re-check every

60 days

Publication rhythm

The Directrices are reissued roughly yearly; the requirement pages change without notice and carry no date, which is why they are quoted with the date they were read.

Re-check triggers

a new Directriz General de Visas in La Gaceta · a change of government · any DJUR resolution on residence categories

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