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Morell
Joined 2012
Posts: 1233

Leaving Uruguay with children

8 years ago

A recent mention that getting residency here seems relatively easy made me think to post this from someone who is leaving here permanently to go back to the USA.

She was stopped at the airport by Uruguayan officials with her son even though they have US passports and had not succeeded in getting permanent residency in the two years they had been here. Unfortunately her husband was already in the US and she did not have a permission to leave signed by him for their son.

Here is part of her comments

" I totally agree that since we are US citizens if we choose to leave the system we should be allowed to go, by my logic. The airline told us we only needed our US passports to leave. On previous trips I'd got the permiso de menor because we were doing a temporary trip, but this time, not coming back, it seemed more extra time for no reason... the Uruguayan immigration guy at the airport attempted to explain to us why Uruguay requires this even though we are US citizens and leaving... he told us since we have been here a couple years and have temporary residency, Uruguay now considers us to be under their jurisdiction and the exact same case as "other" Uruguayans therefore to travel we must follow their rules and must get the permiso de menor. Even if we went down to the migration office in cuidad vieja and somehow formally removed ourselves from the residency process (permanent residency has still not been given, after 2 years and all the paperwork, which I admit sets my teeth on edge) they would still consider that since we have been here the last 2 years, we are under their jurisdiction. Obviously practically speaking the quickest solution is just get the letter from his dad, have it apostilled, sent to Uruguay, translated, and go get the permiso de menor, redo all the dog paperwork, and shake the dust off our feet. That seems the most practical response, although we are very very lucky his dad happens to be in the states right now because there is not a place to get stuff apostilled where he is usually living. All sympathy is gratefully accepted but we are ok, just a bit low energy. Warm, dry and fed. Thanks to all. ... the only thing that might still stop us is my son's passport got olive juice all over it as he dropped it into a food bag in the hussle, and according to what Brian Lanning says above that could be an issue "Sorry, your passport smells like olives, you'll have to go to the American Embassy and get a replacement before we can proceed..."

She is still here and trying to get all the paper redone.

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