Costa Rica’s land borders have reopened to visitors as of Monday, April 5.
Tourists who do not require an entry visa will be allowed to enter the country via land border posts. This includes citizens of the United States, Canada, and others, as defined by Groups 1 and 2 of the general guidelines for entry for non-residents.
Those who require a visa (Groups 3 and 4), will only be allowed to enter Costa Rica when Costa Rican consulates begin offering such services again, on a date yet to be defined.
As part of this gradual opening of land borders, the sanitary order that required Costa Ricans, residents and people with special migratory categories to comply with a quarantine has been eliminated.
President Joe Biden allowed a proclamation from his Republican predecessor that had blocked many temporary foreign workers from coming into the United States to expire on Wednesday, according to a related court filing on Thursday.
franck Riester, Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness, attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, is visiting Geneva today.
Alongside Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, Finance and the Recovery, Franck Riester will meet with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO). They will underscore the need for ambitious WTO reform that will make it possible to preserve the rules-based multilateral trade system, include sustainable development and guarantee fair trade. They will also reaffirm the need to re-establish the Appellate Body for dispute resolution.
The minister delegate will also meet with Daren Tang, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Pascal Faure, Director General of the French National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), with whom he will discuss issues relating to innovation, intellectual property and attractiveness. He will reaffirm the importance of pr
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