Hello Experts,
I cannot remember what is a “typical” time to get one’s residency visa and cedula, but ours took over 6 months. I guess we got caught in that visa change-over you wrote about.
We had always been under the impression that one had 6 months from the date of getting residency to ship household goods. I don’t know if I read that info here or elsewhere, but I never questioned it since it made sense that one would have to be a legal resident to ship household goods duty-free. Now we hear that 6-month window began when we entered the country, over 6 months ago.
Our shipper nor our immigration attorney ever bothered to tell us this info and now the latter will not even advise us on the issue, nor recommend a colleague to help us.
Our shipper advised us to leave the country and come back to restart the clock, so to speak. We are having no luck finding out what is really required, or if his suggestion would fulfill the requirements. That is an expensive proposition as well, since he said it must be through an airport.
Do any of you know anything about this issue? Your recommended shipper, Sandra Baquero, reinforced what we originally thought; that the 6 months started with residency, not entry into the country. So now we are hearing different things from different experts.
Thoughts? Thank you very much!
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