Hey I just arrived in Asunción, who wants to grab a coffee or a drink to connect?

Hey guys someone did the process of moving his residency to AUE / Paraguy and can help me with some questions? Thanks

Does anyone know where you can buy raw milk in Asuncion?

Just arrived in Asuncion for a week if anyone is around to meet up or if there are any cool events going on

Hey why is everyone loving Paraguay? Looks great, but is it just to save money and the potential for another passport. What’s there to do? It’s landlocked so I wasn’t sure what it’d be like compared to other surrounding nations like Uruguay for example

There are other countries where it's easier to get the passport, I don't think that's the reason.
I wrote a post where I summarized Paraguay in my personal experience: https://t.me/c/1384416925/3278/10160

I’ll check it out

Im making the move to PY early next year. Ive been back and forth a few times. The last time I went I met lots of great people there, all on the same wavelength.
Building and growing themselves and or their businesses. Lots of people still travel to exotic beautiful places, but they use PY as their base to get shit done.

Plus property is so cheap they can keep their life there and come and go without having to carry their life everytime.
You get a high quality of life for super cheap, so even when youre putting your head down to work hard, you can spoil yourself with top quality steak and wine for cheap as chips.
Then use time off to explore Brazil or Argentina etc.

Plus a hands off govt is very alluring for many

I agree that I very enjoy the hands-off government.

I came to Paraguay in 2017, before that I've spent the years 2006 - 2013 in China, so I can see the huge contrast between these two countries where one government tries to regulate every detail of your life while the other one is more like "just try to not harm anyone, then you'll be fine".

Since 2017! Ok youre a PY OG 😂👏 well played

fprdovvdkuoj is proposing a meetup in Asuncion, Paraguay at West Coffee Paseo miraflores on Tuesday, 9 December at 13:00:

"Join us for coworking at West Coffee, free to join we just ask you buy some delicious food and drinks to support the cafe as our hosts. We have a regular group of local remote workers, expats and digital nomads who join every week in addition to people who join from Nomads.com. Please take photos so you can upload them here after!"

✅ RSVP here: https://nomads.com/meetups#00663cdba95a360d0295a6c3ea28e1f8

Hi did you manage to do it yourself? Im being charged $3100 for express temp residency another 500 for tax id and then in 2 years another 2k for permanent residency. I saw someone else say somewhere its doable yourself? I dont mind paying for a service but if its really simple it feels like its a bit too much

How big is the nomad community in Asuncion?

I paid about the same, the service was good and easy, its a lot of paperwork. could be done by yourself but not sure the cost saving would outweigh the time cost

Okay thanks for your reply ill just have them do it tthen

As a heads up for anyone getting residency or cédula in Paraguay. I would highly NOT recommend using Jerz or “The Jerz way” as a consultant or his legal team.
Me and one other guy used him 14 months ago and have basically had no updates and assume our money and efforts were wasted.

That's ridiculously high. I'd shop around a bit, there's dozens of reputable agents posting on the Facebook groups. I paid $2200 and I realized through the process it was just basically outsourced to a local who does it for $1600. Tax ID shouldn't be more than $100 unless you're doing it remotely, you can do that yourself too.

Ah thanks will have a look, this price was express service where i only need to be 3 days in asuncion and the rest remote

Just about every provider has an express option and even that typically doesn't run more than 2300 including tax ID & residency certificate, kyc & mailing address, drivers license etc. Feel free to DM if you want some contacts.

So I managed to do a bit of A/B testing with Paraguayan residency. I was there with my girlfriend and Paraguayan residency was something I really wanted to do for myself, but my girlfriend was ambivalent about getting it for her. I hired a helper for my residency and she did hers on her own. I got my residency months quicker than she got hers. It also seemed she had more appointments… more buildings and various errands the government was making her go to. But hers was free other than a few hundred dollars of government fees (I don’t remember the exact price).

That's about right from my experience as well, we have a number of people who have been able to get it themselves in a very affordable way but it does require figuring out the process and multiple steps etc.

Thanks for the info, i think for me its easier to just get the agency since i will be traveling around a lot and not staying in asuncion

What Neobanks can be accesed with the paraguayan residency?

I switched my Wise to Paraguay almost a year ago and haven't had any issues, I don't use it as much as I used to though.

I read as well that Wise in 2023 they stopped accepting new accounts from paraguay but if you have an account already you can still change you address to paraguay and keep your account

Same here. No issues