Beneficiary Visa Legal Services
Secure Your Beneficiary's Stay in Colombia: Beneficiary Visa
If you are a parent or partner holding a visa in Colombia and wish to support your loved one’s ability to live in the country, the Beneficiary Visa is the ideal solution. This visa allows your dependent to reside in Colombia while benefiting from your legal and economic support.
Our experienced team will assist you throughout the application process, ensuring that all necessary documentation is in place for a smooth transition for your beneficiary. By securing this visa, you enable your loved one to enjoy the vibrant culture and lifestyle of Colombia alongside you.
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Is the Beneficiary Visa Right for Your loved ones?
This visa is perfect for your loved one if they wish to benefit from your visa to live in Colombia. They should apply for this visa instead of others if they depend economically and legally on you and do not intend to work or become independent in Colombia.
Visa Duration
The beneficiary visa cannot exceed the duration of the visa held by the principal visa holder.
Allows to Work in Colombia?
No, the beneficiary visa does not permit the holder to work in Colombia.
Allows Beneficiaries?
No, this visa is for the beneficiaries of a principal visa holder.
Visa Application Costs
Government fees: $54 USD study + issuance per titular type (V $177 / M $270 / R $400) + Cédula $294,000 COP.
Legal Services: $350 USD with Essential titular, $200 USD with Protected titular, $100 USD with Turnkey titular. Government fees not included. Exact quote depends on your case.
Visa Restrictions
Non
Visa Bennefits
This visa allows you to reside, exercise any legal activity in Colombia (except work), such as studying, signing contracts, opening a bank account, etc. Likewise, if the holder of the visa of which you are a beneficiary is the holder of any type M visa, you can accumulate the same time continuously and uninterruptedly with this type of visa, to apply for a Resident visa for accumulated time
Can you accumulate residency time?
No
Processing Time
Generally, from 2 to 5 weeks, but it may vary depending on the specific circumstances of each application.
Application Location
Can be applied for from within Colombia or from the applicant's country of residence or nationality.
Specific Requirements
Copy of Principal Visa: Copy of the current visa of the principal visa holder from whom the beneficiary wishes to obtain the visa.
Proof of Relationship:
Marriage Certificate or Birth Certificate: Copy of the marriage certificate or birth certificate that certifies the relationship or family link with the principal visa holder. These documents must be properly apostilled, legalized, and translated into Spanish if they are in another language.
Written Request from Principal Visa Holder: Written communication from the principal visa holder requesting the beneficiary visa and declaring economic dependency and responsibility for the beneficiary's travel and/or stay expenses in the national territory, including health coverage services.
Proof of Financial Responsibility: The principal visa holder must demonstrate, through bank statements for the last 6 months or employment certification, that they have sufficient income to assume financial responsibility for their beneficiaries.
Want to learn more about the Beneficiary Visa details, requirements, and benefits? Read our comprehensive guide below!
Why to choose us
Senior lawyers only
We are fully licensed immigration attorneys, not intermediaries or document runners. Led by Camila Ocampo — Universidad de los Andes 2007, 15+ years of practice, years leading high-volume immigration strategy for hundreds of foreign nationals at one of Colombia's leading business law firms in Colombia, and advanced specialization in Law and Migration at Los Andes 2025.
We only hire attorneys with more than 3 years of exclusive Colombian immigration experience, and the same senior attorney owns your file from first call to foreign ID in hand.
Sofi, your 24/7 immigration companion
Sofi is our private client app beside your attorney. She tells you in plain English what this visa needs and why, with templates and examples. Upload from your phone — she flags expired files, blurry photos, missing signatures or seals before lawyer review. Live status, deadline reminders, and everything in one ordered file, not scattered chats. Your senior attorney decides strategy and signs filings. Sofi removes waiting so senior hours go to winning.
Total price transparency
Immigration is stressful enough. You approve a fixed legal fee in writing before we start. Government fees are listed separately at official cost with receipts. Partner costs are fixed upfront. If extra work is needed, we explain why, quote it fixed, and proceed only with your approval. No surprise charges, ever..
Commitment to Success
We only accept your case after a viability check — no legal path, no fee. Once we accept, we fight for approval. Decisions are discretionary, so if officers request more or deny, we dissect the reasoning, strengthen evidence, and re-file. Your proposal states what adaptation is included; anything extra is fixed-quoted upfront. Never abandoned, never surprised — that is why clients refer us and reviews mention denials turned into approvals.
Reputation you can verify before you pay.
Word-of-mouth is our main source of clients. Find our client reviews on Google and Lawzana. — real cases, including prior denials turned into approvals — and our public guides and newsroom where we publish real costs, shifting Ministry criteria and timelines. We are a private Colombian law firm, members of Colbar, operating 100% online with formal agreements, upfront payment, careful handling of your data, and zero tolerance for false documents or bribery.
Camila Ocampo & Mariangela Colmenares
What services do we offer for this visa?
You don't need a lawyer to get a visa in Colombia. Let's start there.
The entire process is online and no platform requires a legal representative. That is why most foreigners don't hire one: the process itself is already costly, there is free information on the web, YouTube, Facebook, and AI explains the process and requirements quite well.
But for cases that mean reuniting with loved ones, a one-time investment, medical treatment, retiring in the country or the long-awaited life change, the barriers invite hiring an immigration lawyer:
Officers with discretionary power to request documents not required by law or to declare inadmissible even a complete file.
Three different platforms (SITAC, Migration Single Form and the Migration Colombia appointment system) that reflect the country's bureaucracy.
Expiring tourist permits or a visa about to expire.
Or the very complexity of meeting the requirements of some visas.
Our mission is twofold:
For those who don't hire, we publish updated guides with real experiences by consulate, nationality and visa type.
For those who do need to delegate their immigration strategy, we designed a service to break down those barriers without promising the impossible.
From fee per visa to case complexity
For years we worked with a flat fee per visa type. Now the fee also reflects the complexity of the case.
Everything starts with an initial consultation. There we locate the complexity and the strategy with a real chance of success. At the close of the consultation a visa and a hiring option are recommended. The plan selected for the primary visa holder will also apply to the beneficiary visa; the higher the plan, the lower the fee for this visa.
Essential Plan — complete and verified filing. The most affordable ($350 USD) with fewer services. Includes strategy, checklists and templates, preparation and review, guidance on certificates, translations, legalization and insurance, SITAC filing, regular tracking, registration guidance and our 24/7 guide app. Government fees are paid by the applicant. Responses, re-filings, extensions or ID appointments, if needed, are fixed-quoted per event.
Protected Plan — for what the process normally requires (from $200 USD). Includes the same as Essential, plus: 1 extension request (government payment separate), up to 2 translations, up to 2 requirement responses, up to 1 re-application for inadmissibility without legal fees, up to 2 ID appointments. Government fees separate.
Turnkey Plan — zero friction with third-party payments. ($100) Includes the same as Protected and we also handle and pay for the main applicant the covered fees and services per written proposal: studies, issuance, extensions, safe-conducts, ID card, marriage registrations, U.S./Canada background checks plus apostille where applicable, required translations, appointments, pickup with power of attorney and international shipping. Flat fee 2,900 USD, 50% at signing and 50% at filing. Dependents always separate.
Official fees for this visa in the Costs box. 54 USD non-refundable study at filing. Issuance only if approved (V 177 / M 270 / R 400 USD). ID card 294,000 COP.
If the case has a clear legal path, we say so in the consultation. If it doesn't, we say so too. No impossibles, no surprises: every additional item is fixed-quoted and only moves forward with prior approval.
Hire us to legally assist you for only $350 USD, ensuring expert guidance and support throughout your journey.
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