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Covenant migration coincides with forward diagnosis to accede to the alliance pacific
This postcard Machu Picchues increasingly more common in the albums of the Costa Rican tourists, who in the first half of 2015 has already exceeded by more than 150% of the total 2014, according to the Peruvian Consulate in San Jose with basis in the issu
Suddenly thousands of ticos wanted to go to Peru; in 2015 the visa application step of 50 per day to 500 in the Peruvian Consulate in San Jose and the walls of Facebook began to fill with photographs of travellers in Machu Picchu and selfis with the showy flames. But the policy also is moving behind the walks of more than 15,000 Costa Ricans who have already traveled to Peru in the year so far and tempting offers that took advantage of the airlines, even of only $100 round trip ticket. The Governments of Costa Rica and Peru announced this Thursday the agreement soon to eliminate the requirement of visa on a reciprocal basis (which has a cost of $30 per person); the national of both nations will be able to travel without more than the passport and the yellow fever. In addition to the pressures of tourism, the two countries were moving in the political dialog. Although the immigration agreement was achieved since last March, the announcement was made just this Thursday, while the Costa Rican Chancellor, Manuel González, participates in Peru at the presidential summit of the Alliance of the Pacific, the block that Costa Rica has intentions to join. The Pacific Alliance is an initiative of economic integration that form Peru, Colombia, Mexico and Chile. It was created in 2011 with the mission to go as a group to the Asian countries and, in November 2012, its members were eliminated the visas between if. At present, Costa Rica maintains free mutual transit with Mexico and Chile, but are still in force the visas to the citizens of Colombia (measure applied unilaterally) and Peru (on a reciprocal basis). In the case of Peru, the requirement is maintained today and for the next few weeks, but soon will be eliminated, according to the agreement signed in that country by the chancellor González and his Peruvian counterpart, Ana Maria Sanchez. The document indicates that there will be free transit between the two countries 30 days after that each Government will notify your counterpart have fulfilled internally with all the necessary procedures.
Two months. The calculations in the Chancellery indicate that, for September, any Costa Rican will be able to go to Peru and remain there up to 90 days in spite of only presenting its passport. Also there are favored the Peruvians who want to visit Costa Rica, as it tries to be impelled, said the Costa Rican ambassador in Lima, Melvin Sáenz. This way, the Costa Rican tourists might go out beneficiaries of an initiative of political handling with ends of regional and commercial integration. “The visas suppression plays in favor of the integration with Peru and the region, we open the way so that our people visit and should know our countries”, said the chancellor González to the Peruvian press, after underlining the intention of Costa Rica of being admitted like full member into the Alliance of the Pacific Ocean. Peru, in addition to being a relatively cheap destination, now is more accessible for the offers of the signatures of aviation. The authorities hope that the flow should be supported of Costa Rican touched by Machu Picchu or by Peruvian meal, which of by itself is much longed in national soil. And the fact is that Peru is fashionable: while in 2013 the Peruvian Consulate in San Jose expressed 5.900 visas and in 2014 it granted 6.500, 2015 has been the year of the bum with approximately 15.000 visas. The consul in San Jose, Andrés Garrido, emphasized that, only in the first semester, the number of these granted permissions overcame the 15.000, what almost made cause the diplomatic head office to collapse. Peru had realized the request to Costa Rica for visas suppression from October, 2014.
