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I think it's called a retirement visa. But whatever it's called, it's the one spencer global recommends for permanent residency.

Income visa and you just need the financial statement paperwork to back it up and ready for use when you land in Chile and apply - we understand now!

eeuunikkeiexpat wrote:Income visa and you just need the financial statement paperwork to back it up and ready for use when you land in Chile and apply - we understand now!

Yep, you got it. (i just discovered the quote button)

Clarification of this is in order, and also scope of what the OP is looking for. The OP wants someone to handle the U.S. side of the legalization process.

We handle the final document legalization steps inside Chile. We also provide the specific instructions for where things need to be sent for clients we are handling their immigration, on document by document basis (because everyone's visa is different).

We no longer handle the legalization outside Chile directly. Why? Because when documents get lost or the legalization is screwed-up, we are on the hook for fixing the mess. Mostly, the point at which things get messed up is the mail (the U.S. mail system has gone totally third-world now), and the rather wide scope of countries that we handle immigration for makes it impossible to keep on top of each and every countries bureaucratic quirk of the week. So, nothing we can control, so not a service we want to provide directly anymore.

Things do not need to be translated if the original document is in English, French, Spanish, German, or Portuguese (major European Union Languages). That is some sort of myth propagated by someone out on the web, most likely a Chilean government web site that is out of date.

admin wrote:Things do not need to be translated if the original document is in English, French, Spanish, German, or Portuguese (major European Union Languages). That is some sort of myth propagated by someone out on the web, most likely a Chilean government web site that is out of date.

Thanks. I was going to ask you about that later. Also, I have to get my dog in, and the USDA doesn't have a bilingual form. And I called someone from SAG (I think that's the right name), and they gave me a number to call. So I called it, and talked to a guy who spoke a little English (I don't speak any Spanish yet). And I'm pretty sure he said the English-only form would be good enough. But I had a hard time understanding what he was saying. Does it sound right to you, that an English-only form should work? Another person from the U.S. said she got her cats in with just the English form, but that was probably a couple years ago, and I don't know if everything will be the same for us. I'll be flying to La Serena. But my first stop will be in Santiago. And I think (but I'm not sure) that the paperwork will be getting checked in Santiago.

English is fine for the dog.

Generally Santiago is where you will clear customs and SAG when entering the country, no matter where else you might be headed.

Hey thanks, I was wondering about this... my question was if they needed to be translated. I contacted a local company here, <LINK REMOVED>

They said, I have to ask the Chilean government if it need to be translated. I have a power of attorney that need to be legalize for Chilean. The sucky part is the Chilean gov in California is like 8 hours away and takes the Chilean gov forever to do. Lucky I have some time though.

patagoniax wrote:.
I hope we understand that there are two parts for many of these types of documents: certified translation, and legalisation. I presume that the OP hopes to contract for both translation and the sending of translations to the consulate for legalisation of the translations and presumably some signatures.

A few months ago I did a translation of a poder in California, and then hand-carried it to the consulate in Los Angeles. It took about an hour, and a small fee, for the legalisation. I also do translations for Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores but not in this particular area.