1. Costa Rica is the country with the largest democratic, political, social and economic stability, in Latin America.
  2. The costa rican people sympathized with the foreign investor, the politicians have in general a cordial attitude and receptive.
  3. The costa rican overbearing government gives incentives to the investor.
  4. The high degree of literacy, more than 90 %, located next to the more developed countries of the world; with a schooling of 2.5 % in university classrooms and a high level of general education. There are enough human resources for the level of executive positions, supervisory and skilled labor that can be used and/or retrained in the shortest time possible.
  5. Tax incentives in various fields stimulate exports.
  6. Temperature, healthy climate, level of education and cultural environment, offer favorable conditions to maintain a good level of family life and a high performance at work.
  7. It is one of the countries with the highest production and availability of hydroelectric power at a low cost, per capita.
  8. There is no army or military interests of any kind. The safety of persons and the State is in the hands of an efficient police force, whose number is much smaller than teachers.
  9. The air transport and maritime internal and with the rest of the world are excellent. With North America and the rest of Central America and Panama, also communicates through the Inter-american Highway. Electronic communications, including satellite, are excellent.
There are no questions of nationality, race, creed or ideology.

Requirements for residence application:

  • Apply two colons stamped paper addressed to the members of the National Immigration Council, certified by an attorney, with duty stamp of ten colones, police stamp of hundred colones, Colegio de Abogados stamp and migratory stamp of twenty colones colones.
  • The application must contain the following information: full name, known as, nationality, passport number, profession or trade, the exact address in the country, the home or office for judicial notice within the perimeter of the city of San Jose, PO Box and telephone.