We are going to Ecuador - how to make a visa?

If the Ecuador is unknown for you, then it's time to find out that the Andes, Amazonian jungle, Galapagos Islands and amazing beauty beaches are located next to him. More than enough to start planning a journey. Russian tourists have a big advantage - they do not need a visa to Ecuador in 2019, subject to simple formalities.

Rest without a visa

You will succeed in the consulate of this state if the journey does not ignore more than 3 months. It is so much that our compatriots without fear can be held here to be expelled to their homeland. But it concerns that only those in whose plans are extremely rest.

Arrival in Ecuador in order to find it even for such a short period of time, it provides for the presence of a special stamp in your passport.

To present at the customs you will need:

  1. Passport, which will remain valid 6 months after your entrance to the country.
  2. Tickets for reverse flight.
  3. For your child, you need to stock up a set of papers:

    1. Birth certificate.
    2. The consent of the missing parent to travel beyond Russia.
    3. The resolution of both parents, if accompanies the young tourist a third party.

    All specified documents must be accompanied by Spanish translation and refer notaries.

    If you were not enough for three months, there is the possibility of extending Ecuadorian visa. Make it, however, you need a month before the expiration date of its term.

    You should contact a local migration service (Oficina de la PoliciĆ” Nacional de MigraciĆ³n), which will put you a new stamp - a maximum of 90 days. At the same time, state duty is paid: its size will depend on the basis and period of extension; Arguments may be requested regarding the need for staying in the country. Important: At the time of departure from Ecuador, your passport must be valid for another 6 months.

    Take with you a copy of the passport: the first turn and the page with the already existing stamp.

    Further prolongation is also possible, but for a period of 30 days and no more than three times.

    Long-term stay

    A longer stay in the country of volcanoes will require you to appeal to the representative office of Ecuador in Moscow. This procedure will be necessary in the event that you are going to organize your own business or get a job in this state.

    Visa to Ecuador will appear in your passport if you provide such documents:

    1. Passport and copy of his first page.
    2. Questionnaire. It is expected to fill out it in English or Spanish.
    3. Photo.
    4. Turvaucher or an invitation from a citizen of Ecuador. This document must describe in detail where you are going to live, at whose expense and how long. To the invitation you need to attach confirmation of the financial capabilities of the inviting part, if it pays the trip.
    5. Help from work in which your position is indicated and salary. The magnitude of the latter cannot be less than $ 500.
    6. A financial document confirming that there is at least a thousand dollars in your account, which you can spend on your visit to this part of the world.
    7. Flights to two ends.

    A long-term visa will cost you 200 American dollars, another 30 will have to spend on a visa profile.

    Upon arrival in the country, every foreign citizen must register his visa in the Department for Work with Foreigners. For this you are given about one month.

    Do not forget only that to get the opportunity to open an enterprise in Ecuador you need to apply for a business visa. And employment is possible only if there is a working. With the usual tourist stamp, even if you can not work with long-term, you can not work here.

    While in Ecuador, you can, of course, leave its territory, but do not forget that to enter the Galapagos Islands, for example, you are waiting for payment of duty - 100 dollars. Well, if during a cruise in the country, you managed to marry a local resident, then you automatically get a residence permit, and already three years later, a legitimate citizen will become a legitimate family life.

    Customs regulations

    Carefully examine the rules of intersection of customs so that you do not have difficulties at this stage of travel:

  • no currency restrictions, but it must be specified in the declaration. All you do not designate in this document will be considered as smuggling;
  • alcohol, cigarettes and perfumes will be able to carry only persons over 18 years old (300 cigarettes, 1 liter of alcoholic beverages, 1 bottle of spirits);
  • departure from Ecuador implies payment for airport services;
  • it will not work out: black corals, archaeological finds, wild animals or stuffed from them;
  • import is prohibited meat, vegetables, fruits.
  • Ecuador - a rather peaceful country, but even here sometimes you can see the protesters who defend some of their rights. You, as a tourist, you need to bypass such manifests by the party.

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