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Everything that isn’t a restaurant, a tour, or a place to visit – the practical side of living in and moving to Cochabamba.

• Immigration Tips

  For those of you interested in my experience with the immigration process I’ll try to provide you with the issues we ran into and things we could have done to avoid them. I got my temporary residence for 3 years through marriage so know that my experience may be different than yours.

  Preparations

  Before coming to Bolivia, you’ll want to get the following documents apostilled in your home country.

  1. Birth Certificates
  2. Marriage Certificates
  3. If you have kids, the last 2 years of report cards
  4. Translations of the Above into Spanish. These need to be done by a certified translator. You can have this done in Bolivia as well. To get it done cheaply, we did the translations ourself and then had a translator just review and sign them.
  5. Immunization records including yellow fever

  Buying Flights

  When you buy a flight, be sure to check how much the flights are directly from your city to Bolivia and then compare it to flying into Miami and then into Bolivia separately. For our family, it saved us thousands of dollars. B.O.A. is the most affordable airline out of the US but just be aware that they are prone to change their flight times. Ours was changed from 10pm to 10am which forced us to change our flights into Miami to be a day earlier.