'change visit visa in work permit?' Expat

zena from romania (Contact Member) - 09/25/07 15:51

I would like to ask if is posible to change the visit visa in work permit or resident visa by my self?

Comment #1 Lee from Pocitos (Contact Member) - 09/25/07 19:03

We did the tourist visa to residency ourselves. You need to know Spanish. It is also probably best to have the Romania documents translated to Spanish by the Uruguayan consul in Romania rather than trying to get it done here.

It's mostly a bunch of waiting and nitpicking of the documents by immigration.

Comment #2 zena from romania (Contact Member) - 09/25/07 19:34

thank you Lee, i know a litle spanish, is not dificult for romanian to learn, we are latin and the language is similar.

So if i came to Uruguay as a visit visa i cane changeit to resident.The problem is that i am not in Romania now, i am workink in Midle East(Bahrain)sens 10 years ago and there is no any Uruguayan Embassy arownd to have some information.

Comment #3 Irv in Pocitos from Montevideo, Uruguay (Contact Member) - 09/25/07 20:44

If you have friends back home in Romania, they can get most of the documents for you on your behalf and put them through the closest consulate. The only document that could present a challenge would be the police letter...

If Romania has consular services here, you can get it through them, or through Buenos Aires.

If you have spent 10 years in bahran... your work experience will also open some eyes at the international hotels here..

What are you doing in middle east? working in hotel management?

(BTW, my grandparents were Romanian.. emigrated to Canada just before he was born :)

Comment #4 Lee from Pocitos (Contact Member) - 09/25/07 21:18

Do you know the basic residency process?

autheticated and translated copies of:

birth certificate

marriage certificate

police record

income

Where each document has to be authenticated by the consul with jurisdiction where it was issued.

The police record requirements vary depending on ones nationality. Ie: US citizens need the USA plus where they lived the last 5 yeas. Colombians need a Colombian report plus one from everywhere they have ever lived.

I had lived in Costa Rica so they needed a police report from there. They didn't have a method for me to get it, so immigration here took care of that for me and it took a long time.

No idea on that for Romanians.

I have never stepped foot inside an Uruguayan Consul. I always sent the documents via mail.

Whether the Romanian Embassy in Urugauy can help or not... here is their info:

Romanian Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay

Embassy of Romania in Montevideo, Uruguay

Echevarriarza 3452

Montevideo

Uruguay

City: Montevideo

Phone: (00) (598) (2) 6220876

Email: ambromvd@adinet.com.uy

That's about a 15 minute walk from where I live.

And here is a link to the countries where Uruguay has an Embassy:

• Uruguayan Embassies

Comment #5 zena from romania (Contact Member) - 09/25/07 23:15

I am working in Midle East (Bahrain) as a night club manager at Crowne Plaza Hotel.(not easy as a woman)

Regarding aboute the residency process, i would like to ask aboute "income", what means?if i came as a visitor first to Uruguay perhaps i will quit my job here so which income i have to declare?

Comment #6 Lee from Pocitos (Contact Member) - 09/26/07 06:13

I had to show that I had US$500/month of income that was NOT from WORKING. I think they have some options where your income comes from a job within Uruguay.

You need to show that you can support yourself which basically means US$500/month of income. The process to permanent residency takes at least a year but would be much longer (almost 2 for me) and another person I talked to said it took him 3.

You'll need to be able to show that income for however long it takes. After you have permanent residency you no longer have to prove your income to immigration.

Comment #7 zena from romania (Contact Member) - 09/26/07 10:06

Ok, are you allowd to work during the process for residency?

and during the process time is allowdto go out from Uruguay?

Comment #8 Lee from Pocitos (Contact Member) - 09/26/07 14:42

Come and go or stay for sure. They take your tourist card and you pay 200 pesos (US$8) for a "permission to leave and come back" paper.

Someone else better address your questions about work. I suppose if you get a visa to work then you're all set.

Comment #9 Bri (63.176.159.150) - 01/08/09 01:30

So once you get this permission to leave and come back paper, than you are able to come and go as you please, and if so for how many days? Is this pass good for like a year or what? I am confused...

Comment #10 Kira (63.176.159.238) - 06/16/09 04:23

WORK PERMIT IN URUGUAY

A foreign national may work in Uruguay under a permanent (Resident) visa, or under one of the temporary visas, for a period lasting the length of the employment contract.

An applicant may work in Uruguay while his or her work permit application and other papers are being processed.

Requirements

A Labour Contract must be executed by the company's Uruguayan affiliate.

The Process

Applicants who enter Uruguay in temporary status may change status to that of resident, provided that the individual has not over-stayed the allowable maximum days allocated as a temporary visitor. The application is made directly with Immigration authorities in Uruguay upon the request of the employee's Uruguayan company.

• www.alloexpat.com/uruguay_expat_forum/work-permit-in-uruguay...

Comment #11 Brian (72.135.239.29) - 09/03/09 23:17

Kira,

Can you follow up regarding working under temporary Visas? I have interns coming down from the US who will be on three month contracts, it certainly seems ridiculous for them to initiate any sort of residency process. But I have been unable to find much in the way of information regarding working on temporary visas. In particular: How do I register these workings with BPS, etc.

Brian

Comment #12 Elaine (1) from Ireland (Contact Member) - 09/15/09 10:56

I believe that for any time period up to 6 months foreigners can work for a Uruguayan company without a work visa or having to apply for residency. They can work on tourist visas (but they will have to renew after their first 90 days at immigration).

Comment #13 Royal Master (78.138.1.226) - 10/29/09 06:44

"Uruguay permanent resident visa servises"

I want to obtain Uruguay permanent resident visa.I am presently living in one of the African Countries.I want to be conected to agents/persons, that can process/provide the visa for me and I will pay for all the servises.

Comment #14 Jose (190.166.117.201) - 06/18/10 19:08

"Maderas"

Hello,

I would like to ask you if somebody knows if I can apply for Residency Permit in Uruguayan consulate without going physically to Uruguay. I would like to move there, i am 53 years old, I live in the Caribbean and there is Embassy of Uruguay in Santo Domingo.

Thanks!

Jose

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