Wondering if anyone had trouble with children's passport's visa being over the allowed 6 month period? Both my husband and I have done border runs, but not our child.
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Answer by ASEM:
Children/minors (under 18 years of age) do not yet have legal personality before the Costa Rican jurisdiction, so no type of sanction can be applied to them for not complying with leaving the country within the established period. This is why the CR Law (No. 8764 General Law of Immigration) establishes or applies the exception of the application of sanctions to all minors. (article 33, paragraph 3 of the General Migration Law of Costa Rica). Then your child will not have any inconvenience if he does not leave CR and does not have his stamp in his passport, because the same law that creates the penalties and rules in this area, is the one that indicates this exception for all minors.
Here is the specific article of this law just in case in the future any Immigration official asks you, about the prolonged stay and not applying any type of sanction or penalty to a minor in CR:
