So far, no good news. We were told by the British Ambassador to Nicaragua and Costa Rica yesterday that Geoff has to download an internet application, fill it out, and courier it with a bank draft to San Jose Costa Rica.They will then process it, usually within a few hours, and courier it back to his address in Nicaragua. The issues? First of all, a best case estimate will be four days. Secondly, he has been unable to find an internet cafe that can print the forms he needs from the internet. Thirdly, even if he could, he needs someone who "knows him well" to endorse the photo and the form - but he doesn't know anyone. Fourthly, he needs a passport to get a bank draft. Fifthly, er...what address in Nicaragua?
In Nicaragua, you also need your passport to withdraw money from a bank, so Geoff is running out of cash and options. He has an appointment at 2:00 today to find out if there is any way they can get him back into Costa Rica without his passport - if they can do that, then he can take the forms directly to San Jose and have his passport re-issued right away.
Hopefully this will all work out. I will be posting late this afternoon with another update.
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So yeah... I never new this site existed until today.... But yeah, why is Uncle Geoff in Nicaragua? The only thing I know is that he's stuck there.... =S....
Every three months, in order to satisfy the very informal laws here, non-citizans and residents have to leave the country for three days. I think just to show that they have other places to go. Here in Playa del Coco we are only an hour from the Nicaraguan border, so it is a favourite place to go.
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