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Post by pilotguy68 on Nov 24, 2016 9:23:30 GMT -5
I wanted to share my experiences here in my permanent visa application. I contacted several attorneys, I will list here. None of them responded except. Christofer Moller.
agongora@langoncolombia.com
james@medellinattorney.com
james@colombiavisas.com
christoph.moeller@hotmail.de
I have lived here for 10 years , I had my permanent visa before, but moved to Ecuador for 3 years and lost the permanent visa.
I had used before more than twice, an attorney in Manizales named Andres Castillion. His communciatons with me were not acceptable and I told him so.
After doing business several times, I could not get a personal conversation with him. I would not recommend him at all.
Now to my experiences with Chris Moeller. In a word incredible. Supurb communication, extreme honestly, suggested he owed me money back due to peso exchange rate. He is very detailed oriented, good english, exacting in all his chores. When he had all my docs, I got an approval with 10 hours. He went to MRE personally, sent me my passport by deprisa. In colombia, I have unfortunately found it rare that the service received is way beyond expectations. Also, his prices were almost half of what my previous attorney gave me.
In summation: I would use him again at twice the price. Joe
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2016 10:33:13 GMT -5
Thanks, for the feedback. I'm on my third renewal of a TP-10 spousal visa that will come to an end at the beginning of the new year. I would have had my RE visa it 2013 had in not been for an 8 months absence from Colombia in 2011. As my TP-10 visa expires, I will be using an agency in Belen, Medellin called Gesticon across the street from the old DAS building. I used them to obtain a new US passport, and they only charged me 150,000 pesos to do the leg work for the new passport. I had my passport inside of a week. I asked if they did RE visa applications, and they quoted me around 1,400,000 pesos all-in including the migration certificate. I think I will be giving them a shot in January. I've did it on my own in NYC and Bogota twice, and getting the TP-10 visa in person was a piece of cake. I used an agency in Laureles, Medellin once and got hosed. I ended up with an 8-month TP-10 visa (TP-10 visas are normally 3 years), and had to file a complaint with the Fiscal to get my passport back. It's good to know that there are trustworthy agencies out there.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2016 13:57:44 GMT -5
Thanks, for the feedback. I'm on my third renewal of a TP-10 spousal visa that will come to an end at the beginning of the new year. I would have had my RE visa it 2013 had in not been for an 8 months absence from Colombia in 2011. As my TP-10 visa expires, I will be using an agency in Belen, Medellin called Gesticon across the street from the old DAS building. I used them to obtain a new US passport, and they only charged me 150,000 pesos to do the leg work for the new passport. I had my passport inside of a week. I asked if they did RE visa applications, and they quoted me around 1,400,000 pesos all-in including the migration certificate. I think I will be giving them a shot in January. I've did it on my own in NYC and Bogota twice, and getting the TP-10 visa in person was a piece of cake. I used an agency in Laureles, Medellin once and got hosed. I ended up with an 8-month TP-10 visa (TP-10 visas are normally 3 years), and had to file a complaint with the Fiscal to get my passport back. It's good to know that there are trustworthy agencies out there. I did my Resident visa myself and got it in a week. You can do everything on line-it was simple and easy. The only thing I had to do was go to Bogota to get it put in the passport-which only took about 15 minutes.. Fortunately for me my wife has family there so I had no hotel costs.-you could fly in and out on the same day or sign a power of attorney and have someone else get it put in the passport. All and all a very quick and simple operation.
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Post by bickmed on Nov 25, 2016 1:06:52 GMT -5
I did it myself online as well; pretty easy and not too much hassle.
Thanks for the info on Christoph though for future reference.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2016 1:12:47 GMT -5
Thanks, for the feedback. I'm on my third renewal of a TP-10 spousal visa that will come to an end at the beginning of the new year. I would have had my RE visa it 2013 had in not been for an 8 months absence from Colombia in 2011. As my TP-10 visa expires, I will be using an agency in Belen, Medellin called Gesticon across the street from the old DAS building. I used them to obtain a new US passport, and they only charged me 150,000 pesos to do the leg work for the new passport. I had my passport inside of a week. I asked if they did RE visa applications, and they quoted me around 1,400,000 pesos all-in including the migration certificate. I think I will be giving them a shot in January. I've did it on my own in NYC and Bogota twice, and getting the TP-10 visa in person was a piece of cake. I used an agency in Laureles, Medellin once and got hosed. I ended up with an 8-month TP-10 visa (TP-10 visas are normally 3 years), and had to file a complaint with the Fiscal to get my passport back. It's good to know that there are trustworthy agencies out there. I did my Resident visa myself and got it in a week. You can do everything on line-it was simple and easy. The only thing I had to do was go to Bogota to get it put in the passport-which only took about 15 minutes.. Fortunately for me my wife has family there so I had no hotel costs.-you could fly in and out on the same day or sign a power of attorney and have someone else get it put in the passport. All and all a very quick and simple operation. I've done two previous visas by myself, and first had to go to the Colombian consulate in Manhattan, and then for my last visa, I went in person to Bogota.. Inside of 3 hours of touching down in BOG, I had my new visa in my passport, and could have been back in MDE before 4 pm. It is actually very easy, but there is a cost involved to travel to BOG. According to Gesticon, I do not need to go to Bogota. I've heard from some other ex-pats, who have submitted applications since August, that it is now a requirement to do the application on-line.
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Post by coolcoil on Nov 25, 2016 9:35:55 GMT -5
I've done two previous visas by myself, and first had to go to the Colombian consulate in Manhattan, and then for my last visa, I went in person to Bogota.. Inside of 3 hours of touching down in BOG, I had my new visa in my passport, and could have been back in MDE before 4 pm. It is actually very easy, but there is a cost involved to travel to BOG. According to Gesticon, I do not need to go to Bogota. I've heard from some other ex-pats, who have submitted applications since August, that it is now a requirement to do the application on-line. The renewal has to be done online, but if you use a visa service, they can relieve you of the burden of going to Bogota. I did it about 18 months ago through Visas y Tramites. They took care of writing the letters that I needed to take to the local notaria and did all of the online work. I only had to print/sign/get notarized the letters, get a photo taken and email the photo and scans of the notarized letters back to them. One of the notarized letters was a release that allowed them to get my visa in Bogota. I then sent them my passport via Servientrega and it was back in their office with the visa in four days. I picked the passport up at their office on my way to Migracion to get it registered and apply for my new cedula. That task must be done in person (at least as of mid-2015). They charged me about USD $200 for the service, plus whatever the Colombian government fees were. I could have done it myself, but a daytrip to Bogota would cost the same and it saved a day of my time. They did say that if Migracion wants an interview, there is nothing they can do to prevent that, and you will have to go to Bogota. So, if you are at high risk for getting interviewed (e.g. newly married, first time visa, etc), you might be better off doing it yourself.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2016 10:26:27 GMT -5
If I may ask... how much does Chris Moeller charge for his services. Also, can a Certificate of Migration be ordered on-line now? Thanks.
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Post by pilotguy68 on Nov 25, 2016 14:06:26 GMT -5
he charged me 350.000 . Migration Cert. Migration here in Manizales helped me do it on line. Then went and paid at bank they required. Took 3 days, returned to pick it up with seal. Joe
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2016 16:37:19 GMT -5
Thanks. That is a reasonable price. Gesticol is asking 315,000 pesos on top of the government fees. Well worth it not to make the trip to Bogota.
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