How Paraguay residency works 🛠️

You attend the appointments in person in Paraguay.

Here is how it goes.

1. Chat with us on WhatsApp.

   Tell us your nationality, where you live now and how you earn.

2. Send us photos of your documents.

   Common errors are an apostille on a copy instead of the original, and names that don't match across your passport, birth certificate and police check.

3. Get your documents ready.

   Usually a birth certificate from the country where you were born, and a criminal record check from your home country, or from the country you've lived in for the last three years, both apostilled. Documents not in Spanish need a Spanish translation by a public translator, and some nationalities also need a consular visa (Ley 6984/2022, Art. 50).

4. Attend the appointments.

   You attend them in person in Paraguay.

5. Migraciones decides your application.

   How long it takes depends on your nationality and your documents.

6. Your ID card is issued.

   Identificaciones, at the National Police, issues your cédula.

Rules apply to keep residency. Before your temporary residency ends, you can apply for permanent residency.

General information, not tax or legal advice.