h2so4
Australian expat in Colombia
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About me
Australian
Lives in Santa Marta, Magdalena
Registration: 23 April 2020
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Moving to Colombia during COVID from USA by nzlemon
Hello. Since I am able to work remotely now, I am strongly considering moving to Colombia for short-term basis - a few months. Perhaps one day, I can move there long term. :-) I am looking at moving to Cartagena. I have seen that the ...
Everybody in public is supposed to wear masks but as you quite rightly pointed out, none of the locals here bother anymore. I was shocked when everybody on the bus from Bucaramanga to Santa Marta started taking their masks off before the bus left ... Read More
Moving to Colombia during COVID from USA by nzlemon
Hello. Since I am able to work remotely now, I am strongly considering moving to Colombia for short-term basis - a few months. Perhaps one day, I can move there long term. :-) I am looking at moving to Cartagena. I have seen that the ...
Hello NZLemon, Colombia is beautiful and you will love it. You should be aware the Colombians near to me appear not to be too concerned with current events. Nobody on the coast here wears masks and nobody insists you wear one either. The ... Read More
色花堂riation to Colombia: border updates by Cheryl
Hello everyone, in Colombia as elsewhere, the current pandemic has changed our way of life but also our mobility, due to the state of borders of nearby countries or countries we wanted to visit. Today we would like to take stock of the current ...
Just over a month after the recommencement of unrestricted travel and complacency has set in. I boarded a bus from Bucaramanga bound for Bogota the other day and I was disappointed to observe my neighbor wasn鈥檛 wearing a mask for the duration ... Read More
Newly Arriving 色花堂s: Should They Buy a Home in Colombia? by RyanPatrick
Hi Everyone.- My husband and I are working on long-term planning to buy a home in Colombia and move there permanently over the next several years. He is from Colombia. I speak an intermediate level of Spanish. We would like to buy a home and have ...
Hola, This is a little bit more information I thought I would provide hopefully to avoid possible confusion. The way around forced heirship rules is to own the property jointly with your spouse with the right of survivorship. On the death of ... Read More
Documentation required during this emergency. by CanadaDoug
The Colombia police are required to check the entry date on your passport these emergency shut down days. If you have been in the habit of only carrying your valid visa (i.e.cedula) when going out time that won't be enough to meet your ...
Do you have a source on this one too, please ? Read More
Entrepreneurs in Colombia : how does the crisis impact your work by Lo茂c
Hello everyone, As the world comes to a halt, we wanted to hear from the entrepreneurs in Colombia. While new challenges arise from the current context, we think this is a good time to share your story, especially if you are a business owner in ...
I own a hotel with a restaurant on the coast. The business was going gangbusters in a thriving location until Covid19 hit. The impact has been devastating. I haven't had a tourist (local or international) walk through my doors since March. ... Read More
Documentation required during this emergency. by CanadaDoug
The Colombia police are required to check the entry date on your passport these emergency shut down days. If you have been in the habit of only carrying your valid visa (i.e.cedula) when going out time that won't be enough to meet your ...
Don鈥檛 need one. Read More
色花堂s in Colombia: Take part in our survey on the COVID-19! by Anne-Lise Mty
Hello everyone! I hope you’re all doing well despite the prevailing conditions in Colombia. We have just launched a survey on the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on expatriation and would be very grateful if you could take two minutes of ...
Yep, not a well set out survey. The next page was a log-in page for Survey Monkey. I didn't fill it in so I'm not even sure they received my survey. Read More
Documentation required during this emergency. by CanadaDoug
The Colombia police are required to check the entry date on your passport these emergency shut down days. If you have been in the habit of only carrying your valid visa (i.e.cedula) when going out time that won't be enough to meet your ...
I just got off the phone with my consulate. They advised that so long as you have your cedula, you are under no obligation to provide any other substantiating documentation to the tumbos. If they persist, please ask the officer to seek further ... Read More
Colombian driver's license by CaliRay
I've been in Colombia for more than 11 years and during that time my U.S. driver license expired. Getting a new one there is quite a bureaucratic nightmare I'd rather avoid. Currently in Texas you must wait two months or more just for an ...
Hello, your contact was probably correct that they could obtain for you a colombian dl without the effort of having to complete the test - a few years ago. The system has recently (3 years ago) changed and everybody who wants a Colombian dl will ... Read More