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Surprisingly Pleasant Experience at the Peruvian Embassy

2012-01-04T14:47:00.000+09:00

In order to cancel my POA (power of attorney) I had to get documentation from the Peruvian embassy here in Seoul. The embassy is more like a small office in a buildling near the major shopping area where Japanese come for the weekend. No security guards, metal detectors, no appointment, and you can use your cell phone inside.

I'd been twice before and I had come today because they had made a small mistake which neither they nor I caught. I was told that I had to pay for 4 pages to be printed and stamped and that would run me about $40. I paid, not too happy with the fact that I should have read the info more carefully the first time.

Then I sat down and waited.

The head of consular affairs came over, apologised, gave me 5 key chains as souveneirs, and said the embassy would cover half the cost, since it was kind of their mistake as well.

That was nice and it made the fact that I had to travel 3 hours round trip a bit more bearable.

Poll Result for What Will Ollanta Do?

2012-01-02T21:22:00.000+09:00

35 people voted in the poll. 60% (21 votes) thought that he would go back on his word. 25% (9 votes) thought that he would keep his promises. 14% (5 votes) choose other. So for those of you who choose other, what do you think he'll do?

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2011-12-04T19:35:00.002+09:00

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2011-12-03T19:34:00.002+09:00

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2011-12-02T19:34:00.002+09:00

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I Love Peru News

2011-11-10T12:24:00.000+09:00

If you're looking for news about Peru, then you've got to check out the new site: I Love Peru News. With info about business, community, features, headlines, news, sports and more, you'll be sure to find something to read about!

About The Ultimate Peru List

2011-10-27T00:50:00.001+09:00

Updated 27 October 2011
The UPL was started to help people get information about living and moving to Peru. I'm not a lawyer, so be sure to check with immigrations or get legal advice if needed. Although I don’t pretend that this has all the information you will need to know about Peru, it’s very comprehensive and updated regularly. There is an index on the right to help you find what you need. Hope The Ultimate Peru List helps you.
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Fighting Illiteracy

2011-10-23T19:43:00.000+09:00

When I saw a huge poster on the National Library about how 1 million Peruvian adults had learnt to read I have to admit that I was shocked. At that time, there were 28 million Peruvians, so if 1 million had just learnt to read, that didn't speak well for Peru.

I'm glad that Peru is fighting against literacy, but I have to admit they have a lot of changes to make, starting with the horrible libraries which I'll write about in more detail later.

Thanks go to Wikipedia Commons for this chart on the left. Nowadays, world illiteracy is still pretty high: 20%. Even with all the technical advances, the fact that people still can't read is baffling. Governments must take a stand against this.

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2011-10-22T11:58:00.000+09:00

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2011-10-21T08:59:00.003+09:00

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Ollanta is OK

2011-10-17T19:38:00.001+09:00

Elections have come and gone and the chaos seems to have died down a bit. All the mass hysteria about Ollanta seems to have melted away. I didn't vote in the elections I'll end up paying the fine, but that's ok with me.

After talking to people who did vote for Ollanta, I was surprised to see that it wasn't just the poor or uneducated that voted for Ollanta. Surprisingly, many well educated people voted for him. The reason for this is that they want change, even if it has to come at a cost.

While I was sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for Ollanta to wreck havoc like Fujimori did, nothing happened. I know it's still early in his presidency and he's had some issues, but I'll have to say, nothing major has happened like I thought it would.

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2011-10-16T07:28:00.000+09:00

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2011-10-15T07:42:00.003+09:00

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Decreasing Dollar

2011-09-12T19:35:00.001+09:00

Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that the dollar's buying power is slipping away while the sol is getting strong. I hear peopl be moaning and groaning about this a lot. And while I understand that the dropping dollar is problematic, I think that people in Peru need to move away from the dollar and have more faith in their own currency.

Historically, the sol has had lots of issues. Afterall, this is the nuevo sol, the old sol is worthless. You had to bring bucketfuls of sols just to buy milk in the 90s. However, times have changed. If people in Peru want the sol to remain strong, they need to start saving in their own currency. The dollar may be the official currency of Ecuador, but it's not in Peru.

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2011-09-10T22:59:00.000+09:00

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2011-09-09T22:50:00.003+09:00

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Easier to Navigate the UPL

2011-07-23T18:15:00.000+09:00

I've updated the labels / tags that are in the left column. There are fewer and more specific ones, so you should be able to easier find what you're looking for.

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2011-07-23T13:51:00.000+09:00

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2011-07-23T13:45:00.011+09:00

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Now on Twitter

2011-07-23T12:33:00.001+09:00

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2011-07-18T20:53:00.001+09:00

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Peru Guide

2011-06-06T22:42:00.002+09:00

A Country Guide to TEFLing in Peru
Updated 21 July 2011

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The coast is mainly desert and is home to the mysterious Nazca Lines, Lima and Chan Chan, an abandoned city made entirely from mud. Numerous beaches can also be found along the coast and some of the best surfing in South America can be found here at the right time of year. Don't forget to visit the jungle which is home to many animals that are only found here in Peru. Few and far between jobs are advertised in Peru because jobs are the best kept secret among teachers. Included in this guide are top Peruvian schools from all over the country.

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Peru Elections 2011

2011-04-11T19:49:00.005+09:00

Looks like we'll be choosing between the "menos mal" once again.

Boston.com offers this opinion about the elections.

LIMA, Peru—This resource-rich, corruption-bedeviled Andean nation is notorious for its volatile politics. Even so, Sunday's presidential election is shaping up to be the most unpredictable in decades.

Favored to win the most votes is Ollanta Humala, a leftist former army officer who has spooked foreign investors by promising greater state control over the economy and wealth redistribution to favor the poor.

He prevailed in the first round of the 2006 presidential election only to lose a runoff.

Though preferred by 28.1 percent of voters in the latest opinion poll, Humala is expected to fall far short of the simple majority needed to win outright and avoid a June runoff. Which makes the battle for second so crucial.

Keiko Fujimori, daughter of imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori, was running second, ahead of Alejandro Toledo, Peru's president from 2001-2006, and Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, who served as Toledo's economy and prime minister.

The latest poll, conducted Saturday by Ipsos-Apoyo, gives Fujimori 21.1 percent; Kuczynski, 19.9 percent; and Toledo, 16.8 percent. That put Fujimori and Kuczynski in a technical tie, given the poll's error margin of 1.6 percentage points.

Peruvian law prohibits the publishing of polls domestically in the campaign's final week.

Presidential votes in Peru have been little more than popularity contests since the 1980s, when established political parties saw their credibility dissolve. Even President Alan Garcia's governing APRA party is hobbling: It's not even running a presidential candidate.

Analysts say that the electorate is even more fragmented than it was in 2006, when Garcia beat Humala, 53 percent to 47 percent. The results were widely seen as a rebuff of leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who had openly backed Humala.

Humala, 48, now eschews all association with Chavez. This time he has enlisted Brazilian advisers allied with that country's governing Worker's Party. And he has largely dispensed with his firebrand rhetoric, though it re-emerged in final rallies, where he promised "a great redistribution of wealth" and called on supporters -- who are strongest in Peru's dirt-poor central and southern highlands -- to be vigilant against fraud.

The uncertainty is excruciating for the candidates: About 25 percent of people who registered a preference in opinion polls said they could change their mind.

"And this process isn't over yet. It will probably end in the voting line," said Giovanna Penaflor, director of the Imasen polling firm.

Humala rocketed into the lead in the campaign's final two weeks, promising free nursery school and public education for all, state-funded school breakfasts and lunches, a big boost in the minimum wage and pensions for all beginning at age 65.

Keiko Fujimori, 35, has made similar populist promises in this country of 30 million where one in three Peruvians lives on less than $3 a day and lacks running water (I'm so glad I left! Sharon).

But, unlike Humala, Fujimori is a free-market defender. While Humala says he would respect Peru's international treaties and contracts -- 60 percent of Peru's exports are from mining -- many Peruvians don't believe him.

Humala advocates rewriting the constitution, just as Chavez and his leftist allies in Bolivia and Ecuador have done, to make it easier to enact his agenda. He says he does not, however, seek to include re-election, as Chavez did to stay in office.

"We're not going to apply the Venezuelan model in Peru," Humala told foreign reporters Friday, saying he opposes placing the central bank under presidential control and artificially setting currency exchange rates.

Humala's radical change appeals to many in the lower classes, which in Peru is two out of every three people.

"Thirty-seven to 38 percent in the polls say they want a radical change in the economic model. And then another third broadly agrees with the status quo but wants greater redistribution," said Harvard political scientist Steven Levitsky.

The poor have barely benefited from economic growth that has averaged an impressive 7 percent over the past five years.

Humala's biggest draw may be his anti-corruption plank: He promises to give the public the right to fire elected officials at all levels. Last year, Peru was ranked 78th out of 178 countries in the global corruption index of Transparency International, tied with China, Greece, Colombia, Thailand, Lesotho and Serbia.

Keiko Fujimori has a rock-solid constituency that admires her father for defeating the Maoist-inspired Shining Path insurgency and taming hyperinflation during a decade in office. Alberto Fujimori is now serving a 25-year sentence for corruption and authorizing death squad killings.

Keiko Fujimori's campaign and congressional slate are jammed with her father's former Cabinet ministers and other loyalists. Foes complain that her father calls the shots from the police station where he is incarcerated and would be the eminence grise behind a Keiko presidency.

Mario Vargas Llosa, who lost the 1990 election to Alberto Fujimori, stepped back into the fray this week. Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature, Vargas Llosa has endorsed Toledo, saying a runoff pitting Humala against Keiko Fujimori would be "a true catastrophe."

Toledo, 65, squandered an early lead in the campaign, analysts say, by diluting his early message of greater economic justice, including a greater share of mining royalties for Peruvians. In the campaign's final days he shifted gears, saying "democracy is at risk" if Humala and Fujimori end up in a runoff.

Opinion polls show Toledo would easily defeat Humala in a second round while Kuczynski, 72, would lose against the "comandante." The reason has to do -- as does much in Peru -- with class and race: Toledo is indigenous by blood and was born into poverty.

Kuczynski, a German immigrant's son, is generally slammed in left-of-center news media for having represented foreign exploiters of Peru's mineral riches.

Preferring to woo foreign investors, Garcia has been unable or unwilling to settle scores of social conflicts arising from environmental disputes of mining.

This week, at least three protesters were killed in clashes with police in a southern coastal region over a copper mine local farmers and fishermen fear would contaminate their water. On Friday, the government canceled the project.

The Seattle PI offers this one.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's voters will choose between an ex-army officer who vows to redistribute the nation's wealth and the daughter of incarcerated former President Alberto Fujimori when they vote for a new president in a June runoff, unofficial results show.

The outcome of Sunday's election — in which three less-polemical candidates collectively captured 44 percent but canceled each other out — reflects the disarray that has plagued Peruvian politics since Fujimori's 1990 emergence from obscurity.

His daughter, Keiko Fujimori, could end up beating Ollanta Humala in the June 5 runoff, as Humala was the lone candidate advocating a greater state role in the economy to provide poor Peruvians with a greater share of the country's mining riches.

The ex-army lieutenant colonel also won the first round in Peru's 2006 presidential vote but was defeated 53 percent to 47 percent by Alan Garcia in a runoff widely seen as a rebuff to Hugo Chavez, who had openly backed him.

This time, Humala distanced himself from the leftist Venezuelan president, while Fujimori backed away from vows to pardon her father she made two years ago when he was convicted of approving death squad killings and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa had called the Humala-Fujimori runoff option "a choice between AIDS and terminal cancer," given perceptions of their anti-democratic tendencies. (That's sure reassuring! Sharon)

The official vote count was slow, but complete unofficial results provided by nonprofit electoral watchdog Transparencia gave Humala 31.7 percent — well short of the simple majority needed to win outright.

Keiko Fujimori — whose father Peruvians alternately esteem and revile — got 23.3 percent, trailed by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, a 72-year-old former World Bank economist and investment banker, with 18.3 percent.

In fourth was Alejandro Toledo, Peru's president from 2001-2006, with 15.9 percent. Former Lima Mayor Luis Castaneda was fifth with 9.9 percent.

Pre-election polls had indicated either Toledo or Castenda would defeat Humala in a second round while Kuczynski and Fujimori would have a harder time.

George Mason University political scientist Jo-Marie Burt said Sunday's outcome puts Peru on "a really terrible road and I think it shows how weak the whole political system really is." Politics in this resource-rich Andean nation have been chaotic since its traditional parties were unable to cope with civil war and hyperinflation in the late 1980s and all but dissolved.

"There is a lot to admire about Peru but its political class is not among its strongest assets," said Michael Shifter, president of the nonpartisan Inter-American Dialogue think tank. "It is a country of paradoxes and contradictions — impressively robust growth but precarious politics. In this election, the extremes came out on top."

"There was a chance to embrace a moderate, middle ground, but that opportunity slipped away," he said.

Humala has spooked foreign investors by promising to divert natural gas exports to the domestic market and obtain greater royalties from foreign investors in Peru's mineral wealth. He called his victory proof that Peruvians "want a great transformation."

Peru is a top exporter of copper, gold and silver, commodities whose rising prices have helped fuel economic growth averaging 7 percent during Garcia's tenure. But it is a growth that has hardly trickled down to the poor.

Eliminated candidate Toledo said voters simply "expressed their rage ... at having economic growth without the distribution of the benefits of that growth."

Keiko Fujimori constantly invoked her father during the campaign, running on his legacy of delivering essential services to Peru's forgotten backwater and of being tough on crime. It's a potent message in a nation 30 million where one in three live on less than $3 a day and lack running water, and the murder rate doubled under Garcia.

During her victory speech from the terrace of a downtown hotel, jubilant supporters changed "Chino. Chino. Chino," her father's popular nickname.

She thanked him and sought to dispel concerns of a return to authoritarian rule: "We are going to work my dear friends with absolute respect for democracy, press freedom, human rights and the rule of law."

Peru ranks 13th out of 17 countries in the region in citizen access to social services, according to the World Bank. In the country's rural highlands, where both Humala and Fujimori ran strongly, 66 percent of Peruvians live in poverty, half in extreme poverty, it says.

Kuczynski, a German immigrant's son who was economics and prime minister under Toledo, climbed into contention in the campaign's final weeks. But the perception of him as the candidate of big foreign capital hurt him.

Toledo had led in the polls until late March, when Humala overtook him. His voters also defected to Kuczynski.

Humala, 48, made promises similar to those of Keiko Fujimori: free nursery school and public education, state-funded school breakfasts and lunches, a big boost in the minimum wage, and pensions for all beginning at age 65.

He says he would respect international treaties and contracts, but many Peruvians don't believe him.

Humala, who launched a bloodless, short-lived revolt against Alberto Fujimori just before the latter fled into exile in 2000, advocates rewriting the constitution, as Chavez and his leftist allies in Bolivia and Ecuador have done.

He says it will make it easier to enact reforms — vowing not to seek re-election, as Chavez and the Bolivian and Ecuadorean leaders have.

Fujimori has a rock-solid constituency thanks to her father's defeat of the Maoist-inspired Shining Path insurgency, taming of hyperinflation in the 1990s and social agenda.

"Because of him we are free. Because of him we're at peace," said Luz Montesino, a 60-year-old bakery owner who voted at a school built during his presidency.

Like other Fujimori voters, she was not bothered by the dark, authoritarian side of the Fujimori legacy — including Alberto's shutting down of Congress in 1992.

Nor do Keiko Fujimori backers seem concerned by critics' fears Keiko would pardon her father, and he'll call the shots in her presidency.

Paypal

2010-11-17T21:03:00.004+09:00

Paypal is now available in Peru.
You can find details on Expat Peru.

Peru and the Hague Agreement

2010-11-16T11:59:00.020+09:00

About the Hague Agreement
Updated 6 October 2011

For a fee, you get your documents in a couple days. Be sure to compare prices though. Fees vary widely.
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Index
Apostillisation can take some time if you aren't able to go to the offices in person and have to snail mail documents. Please plan ahead as it can take a couple months.
1.Documents for Peru
2. US State and Local Documents
3. US Federal Documents
4. How to Get an FBI Check
5. Canadian Documents
6. British Documents

1. Documents for Peru
The Hague Apostille Agreement took effect in Peru on September 30, 2010. You can read about it in Spanish at Apuntes Peruanos and Ministero de Relacciones Exteriores. You can see it in English at the Official Hague Agreement website. What this means is that using foreign documents in Peru or using Peruvian documents abroad has been made easier. This article is about using foreign documents abroad. If you want to use Peruvian documents abroad, please see, Using Peruvian Documents Abroad.

Before you had to have the document notarised, then legalised by the Peruvian consulate in your country, then legalised again at RREE (Ministerio de Relacciones Exteriores) in Lima. Now, all you have to do is get the apostillisation. NB: Apuntes Peruanos says that this is NOT true for Canadian, German, or Greek documents. Please check with the embassy in your home country before getting an apostillisation.

2. US State and Local Documents
Examples of state and local documents are: birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, divorce certicates, state background checks, or degrees. For federal documents, please see the following section. You can mail or take the documents in person. I mailed things. Total time is about one month.

TIP: Get many copies apostillised. They're good for life and you won't have to go through this again. I had ten copies of my degree apostillised.

Step 1: Use the original document OR copy your document and get the copy notarised. Birth certificates are a perfect example of using originals. These are often already notarised by the emitting office, ex. the county clerk. If it is not already notarised, you will have to send it to the emitting office to get it notarised.

It is often faster, cheaper, and better to copy your orginal. Photocopy the original. Take the original and the photocopy to a notary. The notary will examine both documents and the notarise the copy. In the US, it can often be done for free at your local library or bank. If it's your degree that you're notarising, your university will often do it for free.

Step 2: Put your original in a safe place. You won't have to mail it anywhere, BUT you might want to bring the original to Peru just in case.

Step 3: Get the notarised copy authenticated. This is NOT necessary for all places. Some states require it, others don't. I don't believe it's required in the UK. You'll have to contact the Secretary of State Office and ask them if they require documents to be authenticated before they are apostillised. Things change often, so call before you go or mail your documents.

In order to get documents authenticated, you will have to look up the notary that notarised your documents. Find out what county they are affiliated with. They might be affiliated with a different county than you are in. For example, the woman at my bank in DuPage county was affiliated with Cook County. That means that I had to send the documents to Cook County Clerk. Contact the county and ask how much it is to authenticate documents. In many states it's only a couple dollars. If you are using copies you do NOT send the original. Just send the notarised copies. If you are using orginals, you will have to send the original. This usually take one to two weeks.

Step 4: Get your documents apostillised. You will have to send your documents to the Secretary of State. Contact them and ask how much it is to get documents apostillised. It should be between $5 and $20. If you are using copies you do NOT send the original. Just send the notarised copies. If you are using orginals, you will have to send the original. This usually takes two weeks.

What You Will Have: You will have another document attached to your copy (or original). It should have a seal and special corner at the top. Mine have a gold sticker-seal and a blue paper at the top in the corner. Do NOT separate these documents or you will render them invalid.

3. US Federal Documents
An example of federal checks: FBI background checks. You will probably not need this, but it might help you in the future. See the next section for how to get an FBI check.

Step 1: Use the original document FBI background checks are a perfect example of using originals. These are often already notarised by the emitting office, ex. the FBI, IF you tell them that you will be using the documents abroad.

Step 2: Send it to the Department of State. It should cost less than $10 and take two to three weeks. You can also go in person if you live near Washington DC.

What You Will Have: You will have another document attached to your original. It should have a seal and special corner at the top. Do NOT separate these documents or you will render them invalid.

4. How to Get an FBI Check
● Plan ahead. The FBI website states that "processing times may take up to 12 weeks." See number 9 on the FAQs on the FBI website. Bad news is that many countries only accept FBI checks that are less than 6 months old, so planning is key!

● Legible fingerprints are critical. You can use the forms from the FBI site or the ones at the police station. Go to the local police station to get your fingerprints done. Imagine months going by and then getting a response from the FBI stating that the fingerprint card you submitted was being returned because they were not legible and you now have to start the process of application all over again. Recommend submitting multiple fingerprint cards.

You Need
● Applicant Information Form
● Standard Fingerprint Form (FD-258)
● Credit Card Information Form if paying by credit card
● $18 fee
● Letter stating that you will use the FBI check in a foreign country and need the FBI (CJIS division) to place its official seal and signature on the document so that you can submit it to the Department of State for an apostille. See: FBI FAQs, number 9.

Steps
You can also find the steps and the checklist on the FBI website.

1. Get your fingerprints taken.

2. Send all docs to the FBI. Look at the checklist to make sure that you've included everything. Have it sent back to your parents or family or friends in the US. It's recommended to send it via certified mail so that you can track it.

FBI CJIS Division – Record Request
1000 Custer Hollow Road
Clarksburg, WV 26306

3. Your family or friends in the US get the form, then send it to the US Dept of State in Washington DC, not the Sec of State in your state. It's a federal document, so has to go to the Dept of State in Washington. The FBI puts a seal on the crb at the request of applicants and tthen you can send it to the Dept of State, NOT Sec of State! see: http://www.state.gov/m/a/auth/ (FYI: If you want to send it to the Sec of State, then you could also do that, but it’s a hassle. First you need to get it notarized (authenticated, for some states), then send it to the Secretary of State.)

4. They get the FBI check and then mail it to you.

5. Canadian Documents
Please see the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada website for more information.

6. British Documents
Please see the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website for more information.