steveinbsas
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Thank you so much for all the info stevenbsas, I am in Canada now and am obtaining the RCMP certificate here so that I can apply once i am back in BsAs in September. Thought that I shouldn't combine the two incomes, but I have two issues with the Pension Income - first it's not Canadian Government pension, but Provincial Public Plan pension of BC, so though it is official, it's not as common as CPP and they don't have a standard paper confirming the income, just semiannual statements. I can request a letter containing the number, but there is no guarantee that they will verbalize it well enough to be clear...Second and a bigger issue is that the exact amount is $855 Can which at a current exchange rate barely covers the 8000 min, it's about 9000 at the moment but given the mess that has been created by the removing of the cepo I am not sure it'll not go lower by september and I won't be able to apply and if the amount is increased by the time i have to renew I'll have to apply for a change of the category at that point and it might cause some complications. The rental agreement on the other hand gives me almost double the amount and I can even bump it to 2K and if it's supported by a certificate of the title of the property in my name it shouldn't rase any questions should it?
I suggest you try to document both sources of income as well as you can and not be concerned about which visa to apply for. Just go to migraciones and say you would like to apply for temporary residency based on your "stable" foreign income.I thought I had a visa rentista for three years but when I went to ask for the cambio de categoria to permanent residency on the third renewal, the lady at migraciones used the term "pensionado" before she even looked at my file, remembering me from previous years...
Even though the visa is granted for one year at a time, migraciones wants to see "evidence" that the income will continue for two years, so providing a two year lease (or leases) is essential. It is also a good idea to have "evidence" of previous rental history. A notarized letter(that also has the Apostille) from a bank official or CPA that "certifies" the deposits to your account that match the rental income would be good to have. It may be "difficult" to get either a CPA or bank officer to write that they expect the income to continue in the future, but I suggest you ask them to do so.
If you don't speak Spanish very well and/or would like an experienced person to go to migraciones with you when you submit your papers, there is a member of the group who has accompanied several of us when we first applied as well as renewed. I will send her contact information to you if you would like to contact her. She is not a lawyer or a gestor. She is from a neighboring country and "knows the ropes" at migraciones. Her "fee" is very low and she is very nice.