A second residency you can hold without ever moving there.

Not automatically — and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. Paraguay's half is real: the system is territorial, so income you earn outside the country generally isn't taxed here.

The other half is your own country, and that's usually the half that decides. Most countries tax on residence: they stop taxing you when you genuinely stop being resident, and each has its own test for that — normally looking at where your home, your family and your centre of life actually are. Leaving on paper is rarely enough.

So the honest version is this: Paraguay can stop being the problem. Whether your current country stops is a question about your country's rules, and we'll tell you straight when you need a specialist there rather than us.

No. The United States is the major exception: it taxes citizens and green-card holders on worldwide income, wherever they live and whatever residency they hold. A Paraguayan residency does not remove your U.S. filing or tax obligations.

What can help is actually living abroad. Tools like the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion reduce U.S. tax on a limited amount of earned income — not investment income, and only if you qualify.

For a U.S. person, residency is best understood as a legitimate base abroad and a real second option — not a switch that zeroes out your tax bill. Confirm your own situation with a qualified U.S. tax advisor.

For the residency itself, no — and that's the main reason people choose it. The presence requirements are light, which is what lets you hold this in reserve without moving.

Just don't let three different things get blurred together. Keeping the residency alive asks very little: one entry a year while you're on temporary residency, one every three years once you're permanent. Tax residency in Paraguay has no minimum-stay requirement at all — what it takes is the paperwork, a RUC and the tax-residency certificate for when your own country asks for proof. Naturalisation is the one with a real presence expectation: it wants a genuine centre of life here, not a stamp in a passport.

Plenty of people are sold the first one and left believing it delivers the other two. It doesn't.

A valid passport and a few apostilled documents from your home country — typically a criminal-record check no more than 90 days old, your birth certificate and, if you're not single, a certificate of marital status. No large bank deposit, and no income to prove at this stage: economic solvency is accredited later, when you convert to permanent residency.

The apostilles are almost always the slowest part, and they come from your side rather than ours. We confirm the exact current requirements with you before anything is filed.

Temporary residency is usually approved in about 50–60 days, with your cédula roughly 40–50 days after that. Two years later you convert to permanent residency, and after three years of permanent residency you can apply to naturalise — roughly five years from filing to citizenship.

Those are typical timeframes, not promises. Government processing varies, the naturalisation application is itself a court process that can run past a year, and the decisions belong to the authorities, not to us. Citizenship also involves Spanish and knowledge of the country — it isn't handed over on a schedule.

Fair question — this industry is full of operators who aren't. We're Residencia Paraguay, a licensed immigration firm in Asunción, 10+ years and 500+ clients in. We file these every week.

PY Plan B is our second-residency program. The same team that answers your first question prepares your paperwork and walks it through the government process — you're not handed off to a stranger.

We don't promise approval or fixed timelines, because those rest with the Paraguayan authorities. You'll always know where things stand and what isn't guaranteed.