I Can Stay 90 More Days !

When a US Citizen enters Uruguay it is usually as a tourist, that was my case. As a tourist, anyone can stay for 90 days and their stay can be renewed for another 90 days for 887.00UYU (UYU is Uruguayan Pesos) so that is what I did today at Dirección Nacional de Migracion (National Immigration Office) about 10 minutes from my house. You can only extend your stay one time. After that, you have to either obtain residency or leave the country. My extended stay is good until 11/12/2018 after that I have to leave the country if I don't have residency by then. Based on the speed the residency paperwork is going it is unlikely I will have it done in time. But, never fear, there is an easy way to leave the country. You can either get a Visa to enter Brazil, drive there, get your passport stamped and drive back (that is about 3 hours north for me) or you can drive to Montevideo (Uruguay's capital), takes, about 1.5 hours, and then take a boat Buquebus across Rio de la Plata to Argentina and then come back home. Since US Citizens don't need a Visa to enter Argentina I may go with this option. Plus I am in Montevideo frequently so it is not really out of the way.

My temporary 90-day extension papers (I marked out my Passport Number)