EcuaAssist, Full Expert Services for the Expat in Ecuador

Posted on October 25, 2017 • Filed under: Ecuador, Ecuador Real Estate, Ecuador Services

Marcos Chiluisa

Founder/ General Manager / Attorney

Legal Practice Area(s): Corporate, Real Estate, Immigration, Labor, Administrative

Ecuadorian Visas: Temporary Residence Visa and Permanent Residency Visa Services

Ecuadorian Visas: Temporary Residency Visa and Permanent Residency Visa Services

If you are looking to stay in Ecuador, whether it be as a permanent resident, temporary resident, or just extending your tourist visa, we can make the visa process pain-free. Depending on your qualifications, we will tell you which visas you qualify for, and once you’ve decided on your visa we will stay with you through the entire process, answering any questions, providing legal advice, and the required translations, interpretations, and legal requirements that are mandatory through out the process. To learn about the different types of visas click here

Let us handle the real estate hassle, full real estate services

Here at EcuaAssist we offer services for each and every step of the process of buying or renting a property in Ecuador. Let us help you with one of the steps, or come join us for the whole ride. Please take a look at our services listed here.

Let Ecuaassist help with all of your legal needs

Welcome and thank you for considering EcuaAssist to help you transition into your new life in beautiful Ecuador. We are here to make sure this is a pleasant and hassle-free experience for you, by providing an experienced, bilingual legal team that will support you every step of the way.

The importance of having good legal counsel is indispensable in Ecuador, where there are more than 18,000 laws and regulations, and their structure often leaves a great deal of room for speculation regarding the manner in which they should be applied; so much so that legal professionals who work as public servants, applying these laws day by day often disagree with each other which may cause inconsistencies in their services.

At EcuaAssist, we are proud to say we have access to the most extensive legal database in the country, updated every day, and even more importantly, we have experience working with these laws on a daily basis and are kept abreast of the trends of not only what is on the books, but what is happening in practice, in government offices, notaries, etc. Our philosophy is “If we don’t know, we know who does know.” If there is anything we can’t help you with directly we aren’t afraid to admit it, but we are confident that we will be able to set you on the right path in the direction of someone who has exactly the information you need.

The legal counseling that EcuaAssist provides is applicable in a number of areas including immigration, starting and maintaining companies, contractual law, real estate law, and investment advising. We deliver all contracts to our clients in English and Spanish and our bilingual staff is always here to make sure that we are able to answer any questions or concerns efficiently and transparently and provide our clients with the best possible service, personalized to be of maximum relevance to your individual situation.

As the study of law is a social science, it is somewhat unpredictable, and every day we are presented with new challenges that we must face; but we are in this business because we love facing challenges and overcoming them in exciting, new, innovative ways.

Legal processes in Ecuador can be slow and complicated, but with our bilingual staff we can help to make it all a breeze. From banking assistance, to translating, to car registration we have experience in working with virtually every legal matter, take a look at some of our legal services offered below. We also have access to to the most extensive legal library database in the country, and are always up to date with the latest law changes.

Visit our site at Ecuaassist.com for more details on some of our most popular legal services.

Apostille Service

What is an Apostille?

An apostille specifies the modalities through which a document issued in one of the signatory countries (Check the list here) can be certified for legal purposes in all the other signatory countries. In other words It is an international certification comparable to a notarisation in domestic law.

An apostille is a type of certification that is issued by the Secretary of State or Ministry of Foreign Affairs of a country (or of a state in the U.S.) that makes a document legal on an international scale.

Just as a notary certifies that a copy is exact or a signature is true, an apostille certifies that a notary or public official is a real legal authority.

This certification is necessary to make any document legally acceptable in Ecuador.

Apostille document

In the United States: The apostille is issued by the US Department of State or the Secretary of a State certifying personal and commercial documents. Official papers or certificates that may require an apostille certificate to be attached are:

Diplomas
Marriage certificates
Birth certificates
Criminal background checks
Commercial documents
Business agreements
FDA, IRS, Certificate to Foreign Government or other Federal Government issued documents

As Canada is a non-signatory, Canadian documents for use abroad must be certified twice: at the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and subsequently by the Ecuadorian consulate in Canada.

For more information on our services please visit our website: ECUAASSIST.COM

Visit our offices

Bahía de Caráquez

Cecilio Intriago y Arenas

(next to Coco Bongo Hostel)

Manta

C.C. Manicentro, Av. Circunvalación s/n y Flavio Reyes, Manta (also commonly known as MegaKywi in Manta)

Down the hall in the strip mall- entrance is beside Fybeca

Salinas

Av 13 y Calle 52

Next to Common Grounds Restaurant

Quito