President Arias is planning on sending a bill to the Legislative Assembly that would prevent the new Immigration Law from taking effect in August. Parts of the new law have been criticized by the administration. But in addition to that, there are many parts of the new law that the government hasn’t found the funds to handle. For instance, one part of the law required increasing the Immigration Police force from 35 to 600. This new bill, if passed, would allow at least another year before we would see any of the new changes we expected to see in August.

I’ve met many people who were scrambling to get their residency applications in before changes too effect. Now it looks like those who were running late might be pretty lucky!