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Wow, so they made it out with a PODER? Someone told me they were cracking down on using PODERS?.....

You say the issue was getting out of Peru, like it's a non issue. Seems a pretty big issue to me! Perhaps in the interest of acurrate information on this site it would be good to find out what the law is and whether it's going to be affecting future riders as it does in Chile.
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Wow, so they made it out with a PODER? Someone told me they were cracking down on using PODERS?.....

You say the issue was getting out of Peru, like it's a non issue. Seems a pretty big issue to me! Perhaps in the interest of acurrate information on this site it would be good to find out what the law is and whether it's going to be affecting future riders as it does in Chile.
The motorcycles are actually IN THEIR NAMES (of the foriegn riders) and they temporarily give a PODER to a Peruvian citizen just to EXIT Peru.

Gerald, from Germany, just crossed yesterday with a Peruvian registered moto WITHOUT doing the PODER. He just went to a different Bolivia crossing and they never gave him a problem.
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But the motorcycles left the country with a different person than the registered owner. On a PODER. So, not in the riders name. You'll have to just admit to the fact that people ride around all of South America with bikes on poders regularly and without issues.

Anyway, we're straying from the topic at hand. Let's try and make this useful to other people who search it. The Bolivian border crossing success really doesn't mean anything. At the Yunguyo crossing they offered me a 12 month TVIP for 100 soles, and offered to buy the bike cash.

So what is the rule that they've suddenly gotten upset about with foreigners taking Peruvian bikes out?
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The new law (June 2017) says that a "resident" (or "resident" with a poder) must exit the moto from Peru. As the foreigners had a Peruvian Vehicular Registry document with the moto in their name, with passport number and Peru address on it (when the bought the moto) that has been sufficient for the law up until recently (and still is at many border crossings, like Gerald who just crossed yesterday).

The issue has been that a few agents want to do the 'letter of the law' so as to not get in trouble with superiors and ask that a 'resident' be given a temp poder for the Peru exit.

As soon as they exit, they tear up the poder and the foreigners travels on the moto documents which are in their name with no issues at any other border, even returning to Peru just themselves with the moto.
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