Pompey, you ask for a simple answer on the visa question yet when Steve and Nico gave it to you, you didn't like it.
It seems to me what you are asking for is a detailed explanation. There was a thread recently that went into detail about this. It's one reason I read the forum everyday, and read things that interest me, because of course threads do get hijacked, but if you read it everday you pretty well keep up with it and it doesn't get so confusing.
It takes a bit of work to learn these things and it can be annoying when one of us gives the answers in simple form but they are not good enough because they don't have enough detail for the requester.
It feels like "I don't want to be bothered so someone do the research for me and tell me what the answer is." That ought to worth be something. BTW - I make $75 US an hour on my real job
I mention this because Bajo_cero, who is a local attorney who has dealt with getting foreigners citizenship and helping people who have had deportation orders enacted agsint them for being permatourists, very explicitly details why it is not a good idea. However, it takes a little bit of work on your part to dig the information out.
When someone asks for a plain, simple answer, the answer usually does not carry any weight because those who have read enough to understand the complex issue make it sound like some flippant answer due to the complexity of the issue to begin with.
I have responded to people so many times, about things just like this. I have repeated myself so many times that it can be quite frustrating after awhile. It takes a bit of work to write out detailed responses that makes sense.
Short answer:
It is illegal to overstay your visa, but not from a standpoint like the US where you get into criminal trouble. The more stamps you have in your passport (the more times you cross in a Permatourist pattern), the more likely you are to be noticed by immigrations. Once you are noticed, immigrations can deport you via a deportation order and can bar you from the country for 5 years. You may not even know you have an order against you, it just shows up the next time you try to reenter the country and you are denied. If you do not do the visa run but just pay the fine when you leave, it is not only cheaper than going to Colonia, but it doesn't hurt anything and you don't get a deportation order started in immigrations against you.
People HAVE been denied re-entrance on a visa run, not very common, but it happens. People HAVE had deportation orders enacted against them, but it's not very common. Getting a new visa does no good whatsoever.
Do you want to take the chance and spend the money doing something that does you no good anyway? It's an unofficial policy that immigrations officers do not mess with you as a permatourist, but it's possible that it could happen and that policy, given the insanity of the government recently, could change at any moment.
That'll be $150 US It includes my research time as well as the time to write out the answer.
BTW - if my slightly more detailed answer doesn't work, honestly, go read that recent thread because the "why" of everything I just wrote out is explained ad infinitum in that post.
It seems to me what you are asking for is a detailed explanation. There was a thread recently that went into detail about this. It's one reason I read the forum everyday, and read things that interest me, because of course threads do get hijacked, but if you read it everday you pretty well keep up with it and it doesn't get so confusing.
It takes a bit of work to learn these things and it can be annoying when one of us gives the answers in simple form but they are not good enough because they don't have enough detail for the requester.
It feels like "I don't want to be bothered so someone do the research for me and tell me what the answer is." That ought to worth be something. BTW - I make $75 US an hour on my real job
I mention this because Bajo_cero, who is a local attorney who has dealt with getting foreigners citizenship and helping people who have had deportation orders enacted agsint them for being permatourists, very explicitly details why it is not a good idea. However, it takes a little bit of work on your part to dig the information out.
When someone asks for a plain, simple answer, the answer usually does not carry any weight because those who have read enough to understand the complex issue make it sound like some flippant answer due to the complexity of the issue to begin with.
I have responded to people so many times, about things just like this. I have repeated myself so many times that it can be quite frustrating after awhile. It takes a bit of work to write out detailed responses that makes sense.
Short answer:
It is illegal to overstay your visa, but not from a standpoint like the US where you get into criminal trouble. The more stamps you have in your passport (the more times you cross in a Permatourist pattern), the more likely you are to be noticed by immigrations. Once you are noticed, immigrations can deport you via a deportation order and can bar you from the country for 5 years. You may not even know you have an order against you, it just shows up the next time you try to reenter the country and you are denied. If you do not do the visa run but just pay the fine when you leave, it is not only cheaper than going to Colonia, but it doesn't hurt anything and you don't get a deportation order started in immigrations against you.
People HAVE been denied re-entrance on a visa run, not very common, but it happens. People HAVE had deportation orders enacted against them, but it's not very common. Getting a new visa does no good whatsoever.
Do you want to take the chance and spend the money doing something that does you no good anyway? It's an unofficial policy that immigrations officers do not mess with you as a permatourist, but it's possible that it could happen and that policy, given the insanity of the government recently, could change at any moment.
That'll be $150 US
It includes my research time as well as the time to write out the answer.BTW - if my slightly more detailed answer doesn't work, honestly, go read that recent thread because the "why" of everything I just wrote out is explained ad infinitum in that post.
