Chile Forum

let's say a work visa expires the 24th of a month. do you have to write your resign letter stating that your last day will be this specific 24th? and you send the letter 30 days before or just the last day of the previous month?

question 2: i heard, that after your visa expires, you have 30 days left to prepare your stuff and leave. can somebody pls confirm this.

Why dont apply for tourist visa as nearly all gringos in Chile does?

ok, i see i have to be more clear: my visa temporaria expires april 30th. i have no intensions whatsoever to stay here.

my question is on how do i finish here correctly...

Q1: If you give 30 days notice to your employer or landlord that would be quite gracious on your part, probably catch them by surprise that anyone would. I always try to give 30 days notice, I have in Mexico and in Chile and they always are stunned.

Q2: I don't think it's a good idea to be here on an expired visa, I was accidently for 60 days. It's not a big deal unless you're Peruvian or Bolivian. They wont send you to Guantanamo but it'd be good to be legal.

my question is on how do i finish here correctly...

Do what you think is best, it's probably better than what anyone does here anyway.

Chuck J 3.0 wrote:Q2: I don't think it's a good idea to be here on an expired visa, I was accidently for 60 days. It's not a big deal unless you're Peruvian or Bolivian. They wont send you to Guantanamo but it'd be good to be legal.

was this a tourist visa?

i heard, that you can leave chile within 30 days after your visa temporaria expired. but i have no evidence for this...

Yeah, it was a tourist visa. The woman stamped it for 30 days not 90 and I didn't even look at it So 90 days later the guy asks why my visa is expired. I said ooops, I thought the woman stamped it for 90 days last time. OK, no problem.

I dunno about the temp visa. If it's expired it's expired, no? They wont get too upset about it especialy if your leaving. But you may have to explain and answer some questions etc.
Is there any way to get a tourist visa or get your temp valid for 30 more days? I dunno what that entails. You want to be legal if you can.

You can contact these guys. They're in Santiago and probably have someone there who speaks English and may be quicker than trying ask Extranajero.

http://www.chipsites.com/ww/settling-in ... chile.html


Contact CHIP

Main Office: (56-2) 735-9044

Our Address:
Av. Santa Maria 227, Office 12
Santiago, Chile

suizo wrote:. . . . i have no intensions whatsoever to stay here. . . .

I'm curious: why don't you wish to stay in or return to Chile?

I wonder if it is not related to this post :


Problems with neighbors

I can relate. I had a problem with a kid kicking his ball against the front door of my apt, repeatedly asked him to stop over a period of several weeks. Finally one day grabbed his shirt and got in his face. Later daddy comes down and pounds on my door. Talking loud and fast he's waving his fist around threatening me. I let him talk shit for a minute then explained to him the situation, (in Spanish) Believe me I had my speech ready. He continues to talk shit and wave his fist around, I didn't want to embarrass him in front of his kid so I let him. He turns and walks away going back up the stairs but comes back like he's not done yet. At this point I step out of my door to meet him if he wants to rumble. He sees the look on my face and thinks better of it, he chickens out scurrying up the stairs. Come what may I was ready to bodyslam the f**k*r. At that point I didn't give a f**k what was gonna happen it was gonna be settled one way or another. His kid hasn't kicked his ball at my front door since.

zulu789 wrote:I wonder if it is not related to this post :


Problems with neighbors

LOL

that's just a nail in the coffin but definately not the reason :D

i mean, i'm not an expat in the sense of the word. it was always clear for me, that i will move along after a certain time. now it is just the point to decide if i wanna apply for definitive residency or move on.

for me, working here is just too much of a hassle. that's just my point of view. hats off to those who are not as lucky as me and work loads of hours for a miseria and don't have the opportunity like me just deciding, hey, i wanna now go on and live in another country.

excellent experience for me. developed much as a person - i consider.

i started this problem with neighbour thread when my heart beat was at 180. i just needed to let it go out and used this forum for this. everytime i see the dent it reminds me of the story... but that's all about that, it didn't really influence my decision about staying or leaving.

FYI

suizo wrote:question 2: i heard, that after your visa expires, you have 30 days left to prepare your stuff and leave. can somebody pls confirm this.

Policía Internacional wrote:Sr. Suizo,

Después de la fecha de vencimiento de su visa temporaria, tiene un plazo de 30 días para abandonar el país o tramitar un nuevo permiso de residencia.
Para mayor información le sugiero visitar la página Web http://www.extranjeria.gov.cl, en donde encontrará información detallada respecto de su consulta.

Atentamente,

Inspector xxx

Chuck J 3.0 wrote:Yeah, it was a tourist visa. The woman stamped it for 30 days not 90 and I didn't even look at it So 90 days later the guy asks why my visa is expired. I said ooops, I thought the woman stamped it for 90 days last time. OK, no problem.

You can contact these guys. They're in Santiago and probably have someone there who speaks English and may be quicker than trying ask Extranajero.

http://www.chipsites.com/ww/settling-in ... chile.html
Contact CHIP
Main Office: (56-2) 735-9044
Our Address:
Av. Santa Maria 227, Office 12
Santiago, Chile

Thats actually my office and we do not really have any expertise in working VISA's etc. CHIP is more of the travel section of our media group (Online News Paper, Radio and travel agency)

But we are always willing to help when and where ever possible, but again we I must stress we do not give any kind of legal advice, we only can give you are experiences and hopefully point you in the right direction.

Me personally when I first got to Chile I over stayed my tourist VISA. I called my embassy (United States) told the situation. They walked me through what I needed to do next.

They told me to go to immigration here in Santiago, wait in line for a couple hours and pay a $70,000 peso fine and then be allowed to stay for another 6 months while waiting for my temporary residency. I was worried about being deported and all sorts and the guy at the embassy laughed and said don't worry. I did and had no problems. I was in and out within 2 hours.

One thing I learned here in Chile is that the government will let you pay for almost any mistake. I don't mean corruption. I mean just regular fines. At least I found it easy and I speak survival Spanish only.

Cheers

Dan

once you apply for your temporary residency you are good to go. You just need to hang on to your receipt for filing until you receive your official acceptance letter that it is being processed ( they can be a bit slow). You can even enter and leave the country, the boarder guards know this and will ask for your mail receipt or other proof that you filed.

Most people can work it out on their own, as long as you have no special circumstances. The biggest hassle should be the 6 hour wait if you are in Santiago. It is almost worth moving to vina or somewhere else just to get out from under the requirement of standing in line at that office. The rest of the offices around the country are no problem as far as we know.

Our law office does handle visa applications, if the bureaucracy gets to be too much.