Updated 3 October 2026

A rejected application. A missing apostille that gets you sent home from the immigration office. An agency that has nothing more to offer once your cédula is issued. A non-standard situation nobody knows how to solve. We keep hearing these stories from people who arranged temporary or permanent residency in Paraguay on their own or through a local agency.

In this article, I will sum up how our Paraguay residency service through Liberation Travel is different from other agencies. At the end you will find an overview of the unique services the competition does not offer.

1. Document preparation and checking of documents issued abroad

Clients from Czechia and Slovakia can have us prepare all their documents under a power of attorney, in exactly the form the Paraguayan immigration office accepts. A single missing translation or apostille otherwise means a wasted trip to Paraguay.

Our people in Paraguay can check all your documents in advance and, if anything is unclear, consult the Paraguayan immigration staff directly.

We can also deal with specific problems, such as changing a client’s name after obtaining residency, obtaining visas for clients who need them to enter Paraguay, or arranging the necessary documents for Ukrainian clients whose consular services abroad are suspended.

For clients who, for various reasons, have difficulty getting their documents apostilled in their own country, we can arrange an international apostille, which the Paraguayan authorities accept.

2. Express processing of the cédula in one visit, together with the application for temporary or permanent residency

In one visit, we can take our clients’ fingerprints together with the application for temporary or permanent residency and then apply for the cédula on their behalf straight away. Based on the necessary powers of attorney, we can collect all issued documents for our clients and deliver them anywhere in the world.

This means that, compared to other agencies, we save you one extra visit when applying for temporary residency and two extra visits when applying for permanent residency. Normally you have to come back to Paraguay after the temporary or permanent residency is approved and apply for the biometric cédula in person. We do all of this for you as part of our express service. Bear in mind, though, that since Paraguayan police resolution No. 717/2026, issuing the cédula takes up to 90 working days, roughly four months.

The one exception to the express service, in force since 1 April 2026: it does not cover an extension (prórroga) of temporary residency for a further two years. That needs one visit to file and another, about a month later, to collect the new temporary cédula. New temporary-residency applications and permanent-residency applications are unaffected.

3. Secure delivery of documents from Paraguay: DHL, or a trusted person through Encomienda

Most agencies send documents from Paraguay to Europe only through courier companies such as DHL. We have real-life experience of European customs officers opening envelopes and photographing the documents inside, which we consider a serious invasion of our clients’ privacy.

That is why our clients can choose. Either we send their documents via DHL, where the parcel goes through regular customs clearance and customs officers may open it. Or a trusted person from our community carries them personally, in a sealed envelope in their luggage, through our Encomienda service, which no other agency offers.

Encomienda incentivizes our verified clients who travel between Paraguay and Europe to act as trusted couriers. It works as an escrow service and uses Bitcoin Lightning: the sender pays the reward up front, the money is held in escrow, and the courier receives it only after the parcel is delivered. The courier travels as an ordinary passenger and, where the rules require it, properly declares the parcel at customs. Using Encomienda requires registration in our client zone at liberation.services.

Based on a power of attorney, we can collect all your documents in Paraguay. Once an Encomienda courier brings them to Europe, we forward them to your home via Packeta. If you choose a courier company instead, we deliver them via DHL or FedEx.

4. Remote tax registration and automated non-zero declarations

Once your Paraguayan cédula is issued, we can remotely register you with the Paraguayan tax office (SET) and give you precise instructions for filing the monthly IVA (VAT) returns.

The Paraguayan immigration office now requires non-zero monthly declarations for a permanent-residency application (see Paraguay permanent residency: the new conditions for 2026). To file them, we give clients a detailed step-by-step manual and our own marangatu-residencia app. Set it up once and it runs the whole monthly cycle in the Marangatu system automatically (issuing the invoice, assigning it to the right tax and filing the declaration). You can invoice, for example, for renting out your property in Paraguay or for services provided to our other clients. You file the declarations yourself; if you want, we can connect you with a Paraguayan accountant.

Most other agencies charge a monthly flat fee for filing declarations. We can handle it without a monthly fee: our automated scripts let you do it yourself.

5. Remote request for ‘proof of address’ (‘la vida y residencia’) and a tax certificate

For all our clients, we can remotely apply for the official “la vida y residencia” document, which banks and crypto exchanges accept as a legal “proof of address”, for example in the KYC process.

Similarly, we can request an official tax certificate if the tax authority in the client’s home country requires one.

6. Paying with crypto: for our services, and for taxes and services in Paraguay

Liberation Travel is a 100% crypto company. As a company, we do not have and do not want a bank account. You can pay for our services with Monero, Bitcoin (including Lightning), Zcash (ZEC), or stablecoins and avoid being spied on by banks or the state.

On top of that, we are the only agency that lets its clients pay for services in Paraguay directly with crypto, without a Paraguayan bank account or a Paraguayan VPN. Through us you can pay taxes in Paraguay and your Personal mobile plan, and when you pay with crypto you also get special discounts at a hotel in Asunción. Using these services requires registration in our client zone at liberation.services.

7. SIM cards and bank accounts in Paraguay, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan

We have helped many of our clients get a Paraguayan SIM card (even remotely) and open a bank account in Paraguay (Banco Familiar, ITAU, UENO, or Sudameris). Paraguayan bank accounts, however, are often limited by your monthly income. If you don’t have a local Paraguayan income, we can open, completely remotely, a premium bank account at Georgia’s TBC Bank, whose cards work great not only in Paraguay but worldwide. We can also open a non-CRS bank account in Kyrgyzstan, which reports nothing about you automatically. You can compare the two accounts in Travel Perks or Privacy: TBC Concept (Georgia) vs ABank (Kyrgyzstan).

8. Paraguayan and international driving licences, arranged remotely

Without you having to come to Paraguay, we can remotely arrange a Paraguayan driving licence together with an international driving permit. With the international permit you can drive in other countries too.

9. An AI assistant on Signal that answers 24/7

Our clients have access to our own AI bot on Signal that is available around the clock. It knows everything about Paraguay, Uruguay and Panama from our wiki, our articles and our newsletters, learns the latest changes every night, and can answer genuinely complex questions. Thanks to it, our clients get 24/7 support, even while all of us are asleep. It replies in English, Slovak, Czech, Spanish, German or French, always in the language you ask in. Every client of ours gets the bot’s number.

10. Automatic reminders of your mandatory visits to Paraguay

Both temporary and permanent residency in Paraguay require mandatory visits to the country on set dates, and missing one puts your residency at risk. To make sure this never happens to our clients, automated processes in our apps automatically email them three months before each mandatory visit is due, whether they hold temporary or permanent residency.

11. Membership in the community of Paraguayan residents and global opportunists

One of our biggest advantages over other agencies is our large community of hundreds of Paraguayan residents. We add all our clients to the international English-speaking Signal group of Global Opportunists. In addition, we will add you to our Asunción on-site group, to the group where we deal with Paraguayan real estate, or to a special group on global health insurance. We also have dedicated Signal groups for holders of both Georgian and Kyrgyz bank accounts, for example for trusted P2P cryptocurrency trading.

Membership in this community is of incalculable value and is one of the main reasons people choose our service.

12. Experience since 2021 and more than 1,000 successfully served residents in Paraguay

Since 2021 we have helped over 1,000 people from all over the world get residency in Paraguay, including entire families, from grandparents to grandchildren a few months old. Our clients include a large part of the Slovak and Czech crypto community. We have dealt with the most unusual situations imaginable, and because of that, hardly anything can surprise us anymore.

What you won’t find anywhere else

Getting your cédula is not the end. Years of mandatory visits, monthly declarations, payments, document deliveries and questions follow, and that is exactly what we built our own apps for. No other agency has apps like these:

• Encomienda for document delivery through trusted people from our community.
• Crypto payments for Paraguayan taxes, the Personal mobile plan and a hotel.
• marangatu-residencia for filing non-zero declarations yourself, automatically.
• An AI bot on Signal that answers questions about Paraguay, Uruguay and Panama 24/7.
• Automatic reminders of your mandatory visits to Paraguay.

Add express cédula processing in a single visit, Paraguayan and international driving licences arranged remotely, and a community of hundreds of Paraguayan residents.

If you are wondering whether Paraguayan residency still makes sense for you, read Does Paraguayan residency still make sense in 2026? You will also find more detailed information about the current process of obtaining temporary and permanent residency in Paraguay.

Interested in residency in Paraguay? Just write to info@liberation.travel or use our contact form and we will send you our current price list.