{"id":1249,"date":"2020-05-27T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2022-04-05T18:24:38","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T18:24:38","slug":"driving-two-hours-to-go-to-mcdonalds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gowatkinsgo.com\/?p=1249","title":{"rendered":"Driving Two Hours to go to McDonald’s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We took advantage of having a car and took a day trip to Managua after squaring away our visa extension paperwork.<\/p>\n

When we went last week, immigration would not process our request for a 60-day extension without a signed lease. We arrived at immigration at 7:45 am on Monday morning in Rivas to finalize the paperwork with our lease in hand.<\/p>\n

We took the recommendation of some people who posted about the visa process on Facebook and found someone to meet us at immigration and translate for us. RJ, our translator, works in tourism, and right now that industry is struggling, so in his downtime he volunteers to help people like us with visa extensions.\u00a0 He was a great help.\"\"<\/p>\n

We heard many people are only getting 30 days extension and he was able to get 60 days for us. We are pretty sure that would not have happened if we went on our own.<\/p>\n

We highly recommend that you get a translator if you go to immigration in Nicaragua and do not speak Spanish. The people who work there do not speak English and we have heard that they get annoyed with people who do not speak Spanish (and rightly so). The woman working asked us a lot of questions and having RJ there made the process much smoother.<\/p>\n

After Rivas we drove two hours to Managua.<\/p>\n