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Longer term visa for Ecuador? (Papierkram)

IVECO Tony @, Wherever., Samstag, 27. Juni 2015, 16:01 (vor 3198 Tagen) @ Sommerwind

"Now I-"m a little bit confused.......I understand that you want to leave the vehicle in Ecuador and you go outside. Right?
What's the problem in making the 6-month-visa (extendet turism)? With this visa you can leave the country and let the car here."

I don't know that there is a problem, but equally I can't find concrete information that would give me certainty that the isn't a problem.

Many other countries have entirely separate systems for issue of personal visas and TVIP and I suspect Ecuador is no different. Immigration have their own rules and Aduana have their rules and they each don't worry about the other's rules.

For instance Mexico has 180 day personal visas and 10 year TVIP for motorhomes. Argentina has 8 month TVIP and 90 day personal visas. Bolivia have different periods for visas and TVIPs and they have different procedures and conditions for extending them. Same with Uruguay. In Peru we obtained official permission the leave the vehicle behind for 10 months, but that was done only by suspending the TVIP while we were away and now that we are back, we only have the balance of the 90 days to leave the country, not a fresh period of 90 days.

Ecuador has as standard a 90 day personal visa and a 90 day TVIP. Ecuador also has an option of a 180 day personal visa, BUT I can't see any option for getting a 180-day TVIP to match the extended personal visa. I have been told there is no provision at all for extending the TVIP except by leaving via a border post and returning. Of course that information may be wrong or outdated.

The ability to leave a vehicle for two or three months while leaving the vehicle behind isn't universal, but is widely tolerated by many countries as long as the validity periods for the TVIP aren't broken, but we want to leave the vehicle behind for as close to 6 months as possible and while I can do that in Uruguay and Argentina, it seems doubtful that it can be done in Ecuador even if we pay the several hundred dollars to get an extended visa.

If indeed you have had several customers who have left their vehicle for significantly more than 3 months, then there must be either a way of extending the TVIP without the owner driving out of the country, or it is possible to obtain a 6 month TVIP to match the 6 month visa.

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