1. Request to the general manager, signed by the foreigner who requests the residence permit. If the formalities are processed from the foreign country, the request must be authenticated by a Costa Rican consul, a responsible official or an official notary. The request should contain the following documents:

a) Background of the request, in which the request and the activities, which the foreigner will perform in the country, are described and justified.

b) The following data of the foreigner who requests the stay:

" Complete name

" Nationality

" Date of birth

" Occupation

" Address in Costa Rica

" Migration status desired

" Complete names and nationality of parents

" Further documents that support the request

" Place within the legal district of San José or an electronic medium determined by the Ministry, which is specified in the Official Journal, in order to receive notifications.

" Date and signature

c) If the formalities are processed from the foreign country, a Costa Rican consul can mark the residence permit provisionally in the passport in the consulate, to which the entry permission of the foreigner must be submitted, so that the request is confirmed provisionally.

2. Work contract certified by a lawyer (if the foreigner is an employee).

3. Certificate of the Social Security Agency of Costa Rica that the enterprise exists on the day of the

payment.

4. Copy and original or authenticated copy of the cost account of the Social Security Agency of Costa Rica.

5. Certificate of risk of the National Insurance Institute.

6. Certificate of the financial situation of the enterprise, issued by an official accountant.

7. Copy and original or authenticated copy of the certificate of the legal capacity (cédula juridica) of the enterprise.

8. Certificate that the society is registered as a legal entity, the date of issue should date back more than one month before the submission to the foreigner authority.

9. Copy and original or authenticated copy of the establishment document of the society.

10. Tax statement of the society

11. Proof of fingerprints of the Ministry for Public Security.

12. Payment of the tax stamps

13. Birth certificate of the applicant which specifies the names of the parents.

14. Certificate of good conduct from which it follows that the applicant did not commit any crime, neither in the homeland nor in the country in which he lived during the last three years.

a. In order to be valid for receiving a temporary residence permit, the birth certificate, certificates on previous convictions, copies of the passports or

other documents which were issued abroad must be present as certified translations in Spanish or certified by a notary with appropriate knowledge of the relevant language. The birth certificate must be issued in the homeland. If previous convictions are present, the certificates must have been issued in the homeland or the country, in which the foreigner has been living legally during the past three years. The legality of this stay must be explained reliably.

b. In exceptional cases, when it is impossible to submit the birth certificate with the names of parents and/or the certificates on previous convictions because the government in the homeland can not issue them or because of other serious reasons, one can be excempted from submitting these documents by placing a request to the Ministry, in which the impossibility must be described convincingly. The request is examined by the Ministry and, if necessary, is submitted to the national council which takes the accordant decision.

15. Authenticated copy of the passport of the applicant

16. Three current passport photos

17. Proof of the payment of US $30 (thirty dollar) or the equivalent amount in Colones, subject to the exchange rate of the Central Bank of Costa Rica, for the residence formalities for the first entry of the foreigner in favour of the applicant.

18 Tax stamp: 125 stamps for the request and 2.50 for each sheet.