Chile Forum

benjaminbarnett wrote:

admin wrote:Say, I might add that exactly those sorts of contracts, are what we use as one of our most common core methods of obtaining immigration visas for people. Specially the IT guys that are just planning to come to Chile, and work online. Immigration not only does not have a problem with those sorts of working arrangements, so far they seem to encourage and readily grant visas based on those sorts of contracts with the full intent disclosed that the person is going to be sitting around the beach or whatever sending emails, designing web sites, running companies, and spending their paychecks in Chile. We never even had it suggested that they should obtain a work visa, in addition to their regular visa.

So it is possible to get a visa temporaria under these conditions, just plainly disclosing that your work has nothing to do with Chile? Any documentation necessary?

hi benjamin, my husband and I are in the process of doing just that. After we submitted our first round of info at the regional office, the Santiago office came back and requested more info as they want to know exactly what we're going to do to make money within Chile. Our regional office advised us to explain everything in a letter (in Spanish), pull together some supporting documentation (job descriptions, bank statements) and that this should be enough to meet their requirements. Plus, oddly enough, they needed a photocopy of our credit card with the first submission as a way to validate that we're financially sound (and also, we had the backup documentation available with the initial submission but the regional representative said it wasn't necessary, so it wasn't submitted.) This is just one person's story, as I know it all varies by the person you happen to be working with at the regional and central locations, but hopefully it helps! We're bringing everything in to hand in on Monday, and hopefully this will be all that is needed for our temporary visas. Wish us luck...

Thanks for the followup, Jen - please do report back, as this is really how I would prefer to go about it.

I got a Visa Temporal (Rentista y Jubilista) by proving that I had steady work from outside the country (I make websites). I just had to prove via a contract that I had legalised (notorised in New Zealand, approved through the NZ Government Dept of internal and then external affairs, then Chilean embassy, then stamped as legalised in Chile, then translated into Spanish. I also showed that I had money invested in NZ and that was fine, no additional info was asked. I documented my process:
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rachelmarama - just wanted to thank you for documenting the process you went through. It was really helpful to me when I was planning for our temporary visa application.

benjaminbarnett - will do, although you might do everything exactly the same as me and end up with different results, since this is Chile.