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Originally Posted by ultimatejourney
So how long can the bike stay in Venezuela?
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You will be given a maximum of 90 days when you enter. But you can ask for an extension for another 90 days at any Seniat office in Venezuela. But beware: When you go at the other office and ask for the extension, they will probably not know that this is permitted in the law, you will have to insist. The procedure is that this office calls the original office where you got your permit, and it is that office which faxes back the extension. So in fact what you receive is a "copy" of the original permit. If you get asked for the permit later on by a national guard and you show that piece of paper, he will ask for the original... you will have to explain that this IS the original, it arrived by fax etc etc... very complex situation, so just ask at the office that hands you the extension to stamp it so that you transform that copy into an "original", with a Seniat stamp....
I went through that once so spare yourself the problem of facing a national guard who says that you carry a homemade fake.. (that is what the faxed copy looks like anyway...)
As for the other question about leaving the bike behind and going out of Venezuela, I did it numerous times, by land and from the airport and never had a problem.
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