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Costa
Rica
Post
Office
To
Provide
Foreigner
ID
Cards
Starting
June
Stating
next
year,
the
Correos
de
Costa
Rica
(post
office)
will
be
processing
passports
for
the
Dirección
General
de
Migración
y
Extranjería
(immigration
service).
The
change
was
announced
on
Monday
by
the
ministro
de
Gobernación,
Policía
y
Seguridad
Pública,
Mario
Zamora
and
the
director
of
Migración
y
Extranjería,
Kattia
Rodríguez.
The
project
is
in
two
stages,
the
first
beginning
next
month
when
10
branches
of
the
Correo
de
Costa
Rica
will
begin
processing
foreigner
identification
cards.
Starting
June
1,
foreigners
need
no
longer
visit
and
be
part
of
the
long
lines
at
the
La
Uruca
immigration
office
to
process
their
ID
cards.
Meanwhile,
in
2013,
all
60
branches
of
the
post
office
will
be
also
be
processing
passports
to
Costa
Ricans,
again
eliminating
the
need
to
come
to
San
José.
The
change
is
to
avoid
the
eternal
long
lines
that
span
out
for
blocks
every
day
outside
the
central
immigration
offices
in
La
Uruca.
Kattia
Rodríguez,
Director
of
Immigration,
said
the
project
called
"Migramóvil"
allowing
the
transfer
of
immigration
officials
to
remote
communities,
has
had
great
results.
One
example
cited
by
the
director
is
the
more
than
800
people
who
have
been
attended
to
in
Pital
de
San
Carlos,
who
did
not
have
to
travel
to
San
José.
The
list
of
the
Correos
to
process
foreigner
ID
cards
has
yet
to
be
posted
on
the
immigration
service
website.
