Paraguay residency for a flat $350 fee

Doing it yourself costs about $850 in fees, documents and transport, not counting a RUC, and about 35 hours across three trips; a local lawyer who only guides you charges about $1,500 (estimates a Paraguayan residency agency published in January 2026). The $850 already includes the official fees. With us you pay our flat $350 fee plus the official fees and document costs at cost, and we go with you to every appointment.

Applying as a family? Ask us what our fee is for each person. Each person's official fees and other costs are passed through at cost.

Migraciones decides every application, and no one can promise its decision. Ask us how a refusal is handled before you pay.

A self-filed case in a residency agency's January 2026 video took about 7.5 months, and published times run long. One residency agency reported in October 2025 that, before the cédula is printed, Paraguay asks the home country about the applicant's record, and some countries answer slowly. We give you a timeline once we've seen your documents.

You choose. With three trips, you file, come back for a check, then collect your cédula once it's approved. Two trips skip the middle visit. One trip means you stay in Paraguay until your cédula is ready, which takes months.

For Paraguay temporary residency you need your passport, a birth certificate from the country where you were born, and a criminal record check, which must come from the country you live in if you've lived outside your birth country for the last 3 years. The birth certificate and the criminal record check each need an apostille and a Spanish translation. One residency agency's guide treats the criminal record check as valid for 6 months from issue. Common document errors are an apostille on a copy or a translation instead of the original, and names that don't match across the passport, the birth certificate and the criminal record check. We check yours before anything is filed.

No. We speak Spanish with the offices for you and go with you to every appointment to translate.

Temporary residency. Under Ley 6984/2022, Migraciones grants it for up to 2 years, and it can be extended for the same length. Citizens of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru can apply on the Mercosur route instead: two years, not extendable, with the cédula once you have permanent residency, which you apply for from 90 days before your temporary card expires. Permanent residency is a later, separate application: under DNM Resolution 407/2026, Migraciones checks your economic solvency in one of twelve categories, with no published minimum amount, and it can deny the application.

Not full time, but there is an absence rule. On temporary residency, Migraciones may cancel the status after more than one continuous year outside Paraguay, unless it has authorized the absence (Ley 6984/2022, Art. 55). Plan to enter at least once every 12 months. Permanent residency can be lost after more than three continuous years away without a justification Migraciones accepts, and that period can be extended (Arts. 54 and 55).

Message us with your passport before you book anything. A tourist waiver is not a residency waiver. On Migraciones' visa table (January 2026), citizens of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru are waived for both. Many other passports, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Spain, can enter as tourists and are still marked as needing a visa for the residency step. If your passport needs a visa just to enter Paraguay, that visa is a bigger process than the residency itself.

No. The certificado de vida y residencia is a police certificate that you're alive and live at a Paraguayan address, and Identificaciones asks for it with your cédula. To get it, you take the local police station a proof of address, a utility bill or a lease at that address, and witnesses with copies of their cédulas. Practitioners say it's accepted for about 3 months, depending on the department. Ask us what you need for yours.

No. The cédula is the ID card Paraguay gives residents. Citizenship is a separate process that takes years longer.

Yes. Add a RUC, a tax residency certificate or anything else whenever you need it, each at its own fee on top of its cost. A RUC needs your cédula, and we start a license only after you have it.