Inmobiliaria Esteche
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Complete checklist for your move to San Bernardino: house, school, bills, documentation and everything you need to organize before moving.
The paperwork you can only obtain at home. Chasing it later costs months.
The Migraciones table distinguishes tourist entry from the visa needed for an extension or residency. Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein need no residency visa; Spain does, free of charge; Germany, Austria, Portugal, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada need a consular visa. Brazil and the other MERCOSUR countries do not.
This is the most expensive mistake of all: entering as a tourist, renting a house and only then discovering that residency required a visa obtainable abroad.
Original and certified copy, apostilled under the Hague Convention or endorsed by the Paraguayan consulate and legalised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Required for residency and, later, for the Paraguayan ID card.
It is the slowest document to obtain from abroad. Without it the residency file does not move forward, and neither does the ID card.
Valid, apostilled or legalised, required from age 14. Once in Paraguay you also need the local ones: INTERPOL and the Certificate of Records for Foreigners from the National Police IT Department.
It is an express requirement of Migration Act No. 6984/2022 and obtaining it from abroad is slow; requesting it late is the most common cause of delay.
As applicable: marriage certificate, divorce decree or the spouse's death certificate, endorsed and legalised or apostilled.
Migraciones requires it to verify the civil status you declare, and it underpins later family steps such as ID cards for a spouse or children.
Documents in a foreign language must be translated into Spanish by a translator registered in Paraguay, or by a qualified foreign translator with the translation apostilled or legalised. The Identification Department waives translation for documents in Portuguese.
Unregistered translations are rejected and force you to repeat the step, often after the fee has already been paid.
A certificate of studies for the last year or grade, apostilled or legalised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, translated into Spanish if it is in neither Spanish nor Portuguese. With that, MEC issues the resolution recognising the studies.
Schools do not decide equivalences themselves: without the MEC resolution the pupil cannot be enrolled in the corresponding grade.
The Customs Code (Act No. 2422/2004) provides a specific regime for immigrants, emigrants and returnees in which using a customs broker is optional. We do not publish deadlines or item lists because we found no current official page setting them out: confirm them with the National Customs Directorate or DNIT before shipping the container.
Conditions change by administrative resolution. Confirming before shipping avoids storage costs, unexpected duties and goods held at the border.
The same SENACSA International Veterinary Certificate, applied for through SENACSA Digital, with prior user validation by presenting a certified copy of your ID card at a Zonal Unit.
Creating and validating the SENACSA Digital account is done in person and only once: doing it early avoids everything jamming on the eve of departure.
The official path: recorded entry, temporary residency and then permanent residency.
The stamped immigration entry slip or the passport stamp, issued at the immigration control post.
It is an express documentary requirement of the residency application and the paper most often lost in the first days. Keep it from minute one.
An authorisation of up to two years, renewable for the same period, and a prerequisite for permanent residency. Applied for in person at Migraciones. Fee Gs. 2,926,925 (25 jornales). While the file is processed it grants precarious resident status, which allows you to leave and re-enter, study and work, and opens access to the Paraguayan ID card.
It is the legal gateway to everything else: without it there is no ID card, no tax number, no Paraguayan driving licence and no contracts in your name.
A specific route for nationals of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Colombia and Ecuador, with fewer requirements than the general regime. Fee Gs. 2,341,540 (20 jornales).
For Brazilians it is the right path: fewer documents, a lower fee and a direct route to MERCOSUR permanent residency.
A change of category from temporary residency. Under the MERCOSUR regime it is applied for within the 90 days before the temporary card expires. Under Act No. 6984/2022 you need the temporary card, the Paraguayan ID card, record certificates (National Police, judicial and INTERPOL) and proof of financial means. Fee Gs. 2,926,925.
Missing the window forces you to start again under another regime, at greater cost and delay. Migraciones notes the change is made from 90 days before to 30 days after expiry.
Once residency is granted, the ID card, tax number, driving licence, school and utilities open up.
Issued by the Identification Department of the National Police. It requires the residency card (temporary or permanent), a certificate of settlement, your home-country identity document, birth certificate, home-country criminal record, INTERPOL report, Certificate of Records for Foreigners, certificate of life and residence, and the Foreigners' Registry card. All originals plus copies certified by a notary.
Without the cédula there is no bank account, formal lease, tax number or utilities in your name. Tourists and applicants with a pending file are not eligible.
ANDE is the country's sole electricity distributor. A new connection is requested with the Solicitud de Abastecimiento de Energía Eléctrica form signed by the owner and a registered electrician, plus the owner's ID card, the electrician's licence and the property's UTM coordinates. It can be started online.
ANDE itself warns that it works with no intermediaries: using the official channels avoids overpaying and ending up with an incomplete file.
ESSAP publishes the requirements for a new connection: certified title deed or property-tax receipt, the owner's ID card, a location sketch and, on state-owned land, municipal authorisation. In many towns in the interior the service is not run by ESSAP but by a Junta de Saneamiento or local operator; confirm who serves your exact address.
Applying to the wrong operator is the most common cause of delay. The municipality can tell you which operator covers your street.
The Municipality of San Bernardino administers municipal fees, waste collection and business licensing, and publishes contacts and transparency documents on its official site. The Cordillera Governorate is the departmental tier.
Fees and business permits are local matters: the actual requirements and amounts can only be confirmed at the municipality, not from national sources.
Managed by DNIT, the current tax authority that absorbed the former SET. For a foreign individual it requires a valid civil identity card or passport issued in Paraguay; the application is electronic and there is a simplified regime (RESIMPLE) for small businesses.
It is mandatory to work self-employed, invoice or open a business. Without a RUC you cannot issue legal invoices or contract with companies.
Applied for at your local municipality. The «Extranjero» category under Act No. 5016 covers private vehicles up to 2,000 kg, is valid for one year and is issued on presentation of your home licence and immigrant card.
A foreign licence is only valid for three months from entry. The exact requirements and fee are confirmed at the Municipality of San Bernardino, since each municipality sets them.
Submit the apostilled or legalised certificate of studies to MEC and collect the resolution recognising the studies; with it the school can enrol the pupil. Higher-education degrees are recognised by CONES.
The MEC resolution does not expire, but the process takes working days: starting it before the school year begins keeps your child from losing a year.
MSPBS organises the public network by health regions; San Bernardino belongs to the Cordillera Health Region. Medical emergencies: 141.
Identifying the referral public hospital and a nearby private clinic before you need them is the difference between a handled emergency and an improvised one.
The Government Portal lets you create an electronic identity and complete procedures online: stay extensions, civil registry certificates, police records and the electronic vaccination certificate.
Many formerly in-person procedures are now settled online with this identity. Creating it early saves trips to Asunción.
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