As a part of the new migratory legislation directed to provide a safe, coordinated and regular migration, on Wednesday, August 1st the government incorporated two new visas to the temporary visa system for foreigners that migrate to our country in order to enroll on postgraduate courses, and for foreign graduated scholars from selected universities. These [...]
A few months ago the Chilean president, Sebastián Piñera, announced a series of modifications to the new migration bill which will create a secure and standardized new migration procedure which includes the modification of the current migration policy along with the creation of new visa types. The fundamental issues that President Piñera referred to, are [...]
It is well known that Chile is the leading country in Latin America in terms of political and economic stability, however the country is much more than that. Each year, Chile is awarded as the "country to visit" by various renowned publications. Without going any further, Lonely Planet places Chile first in the “Best [...]
Briefly, the “Temporal Residence Visa in Investor’s quality” is the special residence permit that the Chilean state gives to the foreigner that has done an investment in Chile or has a plausible investment plan. Chile, just like all the other countries, requires petitioners of a residence permit to provide a legal cause or interest [...]
For every foreigner, the terminologies RUT, RUN, CI, CPF or SSN, might cause confusion when residing in Chile. This happens due to the fact that every country uses their own nomenclature to identify a person before an entity of the state. Therefore we explain in this article the different use for each of those terms [...]
Chile is taking a leading position relative to its neighbor countries in terms of renewable energies over the last decades. This behavior is basically attributed to the high involvement of the society with its natural resources and the fact that there is a spread knowledge that we as citizens should take care of nature. This [...]
The Chilean central zone is formed by five natural regions that start in the Aconcagua River and finishes in the Biobío. It has the highest population density in the whole country going up to 80% of the total population. Taking this statistics in consideration it is no surprise that this zone also has the highest [...]
atacama desert The momentum of the Chilean tourism industry observed in 2015, which reached a record of 4.4 million international visitors, kept increasing, reaching 5,640,700 tourists in 2016, definitely a healthy pulse regarding the tourism boom in Chile. According to data provided by the Minister of Economy, Luis Felipe Céspedes, this represents a 26% increase [...]
¿Why Chile will be the main producer worldwide? Chile has a competitive advantage over the other producers mainly because of the amount of lithium found in its territory; which according to the “U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2016” accounts for over 54% of the worldwide reserves. Also Chile is one of the main producers [...]
Chilean president Michelle Bachelet stated that this unique tech visa “is another incentive for foreign companies that choose Chile as their starting point to expand in Latin America.” Michelle Bachelet announced this policy in last month “International Investment forum”, organized by InvestChile, in Santiago. Over there, along with reassuring the compromises and challenges related to [...]