Paraguay Residency Agency

What an agency does that you cannot easily do yourself

Migraciones does not require legal representation. The application is made in person, and follow-up can be done personally or through a representative. So the question is not whether you are allowed to file alone — you are — but which parts are genuinely hard from abroad.

Three of them are.

Documents that Paraguay will accept. Your birth certificate and police certificate have to be apostilled in the country that issued them, then translated by a sworn translator Paraguay recognises. This is where most files stall, and it happens before anyone has looked at your case.

Being physically present. Parts of the process require you, or a representative holding a notarised power of attorney, to be in Asunción. Our package covers two short trips, or one long one; a One Trip add-on at $600 compresses it into a single visit.

The steps after the approval. The cédula is a separate application at the Departamento de Identificaciones, not something residency hands you automatically.

What a Paraguay residency agency cannot promise

Approval, before validation. Migraciones states that submitting documents does not presume approval and that further documentation may be requested. An agency presenting approval as guaranteed before anyone has validated your documents is describing a decision that is not theirs to make. We guarantee approval only after your documents have passed official pre-approval, and that guarantee is in our contract.

Timing, in the strict sense. We publish about three months, or six weeks with Fast Track as an estimate and we mark it as one. The Fast Track add-on at $675 changes the queue we can put you in, not the authority's own pace.

Tax residency. Immigration residency and tax residency are separate statuses in Paraguay. Holding one does not give you the other, and an agency that blurs them is selling you a misunderstanding.

How to compare one agency with another

Ask for the quote split in two: the fees fixed by the state, and the professional fee. The first group is identical whoever files for you — Migraciones filing fees, cédula issuance, the apostille in your home country. The second is the only part that actually differs. A single bundled number cannot be compared with anything.

Then ask what happens if the file is rejected, whether the price includes the cédula or stops at residency, and how many trips it assumes. Our full list is the twelve questions we would ask a provider, written so it works against us as well.

Where we are

Paraguay Residents has operated from Asunción since 2022. The add-ons are priced individually on the pricing page rather than bundled, so you can see what you are and are not buying. If Paraguay turns out to be the wrong answer for your situation, we would rather say so on the call than after the invoice.