September 2025 update: Recently, the Colombian government announced that people applying for new M visas (also known as the retirement visa) are no longer eligible for Colombia’s EPS. Other types of visas are not affected, as far as we know,…
Ten years as expats. Time flies! Earlier this year, we reached a big milestone: ten years living outside our birth country of the United States. After beginning with three years in Panama, we’ve spent the last seven in Colombia. In…
Our first three months in Medellin have been busy. We’ve been preoccupied with getting our long-term visas and cédulas (a cédulas is a type of ID card that you need to conduct most business here), opening a bank account, signing…