What does emigrating to Paraguay cost?
Answer a few short questions and you have an honest range for your situation. For every item it says whether it's a checked rate or an estimate. The application itself is straightforward: the residencia temporal costs 2,926,925 guaraníes per person, about 457 euros, and two years later the permanente costs the same. The money sits in three other items: the health policy that replaces the CAK and returns every year, the move across the ocean and through a neighbouring country, and the papers with apostille and translation. One thing we state honestly. For the car there's no amount: a used car may be at most ten years old, but the levies we didn't find at an official source.
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A rough indication for your situation
A few short questions, and you get a range instead of an amount. That's deliberate: an exact figure would suggest a precision nobody has.
Count on a total of
€ 3.900 – € 9.300
Where does that difference come from?
- The first months€ 2.500 – € 6.000
Below you'll find per item where the upper and the lower limit come from.
- Aanvraag en papieren
- € 650 – € 1.100
- De verhuizing
- € 600 – € 1.400
- De eerste maanden
- € 2.700 – € 6.900
Every item, one by onePer item the amount, the source and whether it's a rate or an estimate
Aanvraag en papieren
- The residencia temporal at the Dirección Nacional de Migraciones€ 450 – € 550
- VOG, apostilles, official translations and the certificates in Paraguay(estimate)€ 200 – € 500
The amount depends on the number of documents. A couple with birth certificates, a marriage certificate and two VOGs quickly reaches six documents. A VOG for a visa or immigration costs € 41.35 through the municipality. An apostille from the court costs € 27 per document. Every document that isn't in Spanish you have officially translated; there is no fixed rate anywhere for that translation, count on a few tens of euros per document. On top come, in Paraguay, the certificates from INTERPOL and the Policía Nacional, and the copies an escribano certifies; for those three there's no rate at an official source we could read.
De verhuizing
- Flights(estimate)€ 600 – € 1.400
The spread sits in the season and the luggage: whoever travels with two extra suitcases pays the top. The amount is for one way from Amsterdam to Asunción, with one or two changes.
De eerste maanden
- The first months(estimate)€ 2.500 – € 6.000
This item consists of rent paid in advance, furnishing what didn't come along, and the months in which you still carry double costs. Under the civil code a tenancy lasts at most five years, and without agreement for an unfurnished house one year (Código Civil, articles 807 and 808). Rents vary: in the better neighbourhoods of Asunción you pay a different rate than in a smaller town. Count the currency risk too: your income comes in euros, life runs in guaraníes.
- Bank, phone, contador and the first desks(estimate)€ 150 – € 600
Small money, but it's here because it all comes at once in the first weeks. It's about a Paraguayan account, a local SIM card, the cédula at the Policía Nacional, the copies you hand in again at every desk, and a contador if you have income in Paraguay. It's also here because the bank charges a rate when transferring your pension that you want to know in advance.
- Getting a Paraguayan driving licence(estimate)€ 50 – € 250
And if you buy a house?
This calculation assumes renting: the first months include deposit and rent in advance.
Note: buying isn't simply allowed here
In a strip of 50 kilometres along the border, citizens of the neighbouring countries may not own land outside the towns (inmuebles rurales) (Ley 2532/05, articles 1 and 2). As a Dutch national you don't fall under it.
An order of magnitude based on averages, not a quote. The real amounts depend on your occupation, your route, the season and dozens of choices you still have to make.
Rates checked on 15 October 2026.
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