As an Immigration lawyer, throughout all these years, I have had to confront positions and decisions of certain public institutions, such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, the Ministry of the Interior, or the IESS, whether due to misinterpretation of the law, non-compliance with constitutional provisions, errors by these institutions, or any denial of an immigration process or a foreign national’s right.
Dr. Lina Ulloa and her legal team at Ulloa Zamora Y Delgado, in response to a denial based on an absurd interpretation of Article 68 of the Regulations to the Human Mobility Law, concerning the right of a foreign national holding a Permanent Residence Visa 9-II based on real estate investment to substitute the investment with a banking investment in a CD, filed an appeal before the higher authority in Quito for the analysis and resolution of the case.
This appeal was filed on February 2, 2026, and on September 14, we were pleased to receive approval of the request to substitute the investment in real estate for a banking investment in a CD, in compliance with Article 68 of the Regulations to the Human Mobility Law.
Although this resolution is issued under the specific names of two foreign nationals, we can use it for all cases requiring this substitution. The resolution is attached for your review.
For further information, please contact Dr. Lina Ulloa uz.asesoresecuador@gmail.com uz.servicios@gmail.com 099 867 2687 098 420 5336
More than 30 vendors look forward to seeing you this Saturday, September 19–the third Saturday of September. Here’s who will be with us.
• Almazul All Natural Soaps and Shampoos • Ancient Ascension Tinctures • Antojitos Authentic Mexican Food • Around the Globe Realty Group • Artesana Breads by Rosemary • Chase’s Kitchen • CuenCANNA Macramé and Natural Products • Deli Swing Handcrafted Sausages and Pastrami • New!–Dulces Creaciones GV • Experience Asia • New!–Gramel Yogur Griego • Granny Annie’s Curd, Jellies, and Fudge • Hakubakery Croissants • Handmade by DJ • Hecho con Alma Ukrainian Delicacies • Horno Argento Argentine Pastries • New!–Innovative Dental • Mrs. Cat Accessories and Natural Litter • Naná Mil y Un Deleites • Natura Kefir • Pat’s Antiques and Jewelry • Pets Company Healthy Treats • Pioir Café Saludable de Hongo Ganoderma Lucidum (Welcome back!) • SaBïa Honey and Granola • New!–Senssia Health and Beauty Products • Sol Studio Wellness Center • Steffy’s Meals-in-a-Jar by Sweet and Light • T&E Exotic Gourmet • Tarotely Card Readings • Tehran Kitchen Persian Cuisine • Tierras del Sur Café de Altura Lojano • Tucusitos Candles • New!–University of Cuenca Apaches Football Team • Vote from Abroad US Voter Assistance • Zeytún Sabor Mediterráneo
Please watch this space for more information about the types of products and services represented at this fair as well as the restaurant’s always delicious specials served inside.
We’re so excited to be part of this wonderful fair! 🎉✨ We’ll have lots of surprises for everyone who comes to visit us. We can’t wait to see you there! 🦷💫 00
Kind of like Already Dead, Chulla Vida started as a class assignment that spiraled out of control. The original assignment was to make a 3-4 minute documentary about anything you want, but you couldn’t shoot any new footage. Let’s just say the professor wasn’t pumped when I handed in a 12-minute cut, but hey, screw him!
It’s a weird feeling to put my dad’s life, but also my life, in such a spotlight. I can guarantee I will regret putting some of these baby pictures of me out there one day. When all is said and done, though, I’m incredibly proud of the move my dad made and everything he continues to do down in Cuenca. I feel incredibly lucky I get to call him my dad.
I hope this story inspires you in some way to live a little larger. When I was a kid and somebody asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would always say “I want to be like my dad!” I can say that still rings true.
We’ve been sharing information about our fair all week, naming our vendors, and highlighting their products/services. Here’s a quick snapshot in case you’ve missed any of our posts.
• 4 satisfying and delicious lunch specials including an Italian feast! • 6 brand new or second-time participants • 16 providers with lifestyle products including personal care, crafts and collectibles, as well as services and products for to make your life in Cuenca easier. Do you miss watching US football games in person? Need help getting your midterm ballot from/to the US? Visit with members of the University of Cuenca Apaches Football Team and Vote from Abroad to figure out how to do all of this! • 19 vendors offering delicious foods or food products including Ecuadorian coffee, authentic international eats, sourdough breads and croissants, smoked sausage and pastrami, as well as tempting baked goods and sweets • 35 high-quality, named vendors–no guessing!
For more information, enter “Gran Feria Sabatino’s” in the search bar up above or send a WhatsApp message to Dawn at the contact information below.
Our doors will be open by 10 AM, and the fair is scheduled to run until 2 PM. Please note that some vendors may leave early if they sell out.
Come hungry, come curious, and come ready to shop!
Join us this Saturday, September 19, from 10 AM to 2 PM at Flora Café for a beautiful morning of great food, music, community, and purpose.
Come enjoy a wonderful breakfast or lunch at Flora, spend some time in their beautiful atmosphere, visit the Bazaar, and stop by our Vanilla Republic table! we’ll have our premium Ecuadorian vanilla beans and pure vanilla powder available—including some beautiful Christmas gift options.
And there will be live music! 11 AM – noon — Mariangel Mundaray Noon — GRACE Youth Orchestra
The best part? 100% of the profits from our vanilla sales go directly to The GRACE Foundation and our programs.
And right now, that support means more than ever.
Next week, we begin our second Healthy Beginnings cohort in Ecuador, supporting pregnant women and new mothers with food, prenatal care, education, medical support, baby essentials, and accompaniment.
And today, Friday, we are delivering support to our first Healthy Beginnings cohort in Venezuela. Some of these pregnant women are still living in tents after losing everything and are waiting for permanent housing. They are beginning motherhood with extraordinarily little.
They may have lost almost everything, but they have you.
Every bag of vanilla you purchase, every donation, and every person who chooses to show up helps us continue walking alongside these mothers and their babies.
Come have a beautiful Saturday at Flora Café, listen to our musicians, meet our kids, buy some incredible Ecuadorian vanilla, and help us keep Healthy Beginnings growing in Ecuador and Venezuela.
Flora Café — Garcilaso de la Vega 10b y Primero de Mayo Saturday, September 19 10 AM – 2 PM
Come for the coffee, music and vanilla. Leave knowing you helped a family begin again. To donate please go: https://thegraceorg.org/donate
Karla Betania, 095 920 4786
City: Cuenca
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A full-day wellness escape from Cuenca into the Ecuadorian Andes.
Reconnect with nature through guided meditation, healthy food, free time in the forest, and therapeutic painting.
A day to breathe, feel, create, and reconnect with yourself.
Schedule:
8:30 AM — Departure from Cuenca 10 AM — Arrival and Flavors of the Forest 11 AM — Gratitude and Nature Meditation 12:30 PM — Healthy Lunch and Free Time
2–4 PM — Alma: Therapeutic Painting
4 PM — Afternoon Coffee and Closing 5 PM — Return to Cuenca 6:30 PM — Arrival in Cuenca
Special 2-for-1 Offer! $160 for two people — just $80 each!
Everything included. Just bring someone you love and come to enjoy the day.
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At Optimex, we are proud to be one of the only optical centers in Ecuador trained and equipped to customize and fit these revolutionary lenses.
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Upgrade your vision, protect your posture, and get rid of digital strain for good. Stop by Optimex today to reserve your promotion and ask us about Zeiss Clearmind Lenses! Or reach us through email for an appointment!
Star Singer – From Max’s Kansas City, New York, to California to Cuenca.
Part 2 by Jerry Arthur Price
Paychecks from working at Wally Findley Art Gallery in New York kept Star Singer alive. But, during those days, it was the singing and strumming guitar at night in SoHo’s artists haven called A’s owned by Arleen Schloss that kept him full and complete. Performing at Max’s Kansas City was great fun too. However, the contemporary artists of the era who all gathered and hung out and Arleen Schloss’s club called A’s was the bomb!. People really liked Star Singer’s songs and his singing. Life was exciting! (According to Grock: The historical record confirms that Robert Leaman Sanders — now widely recognized as Star Singer — occupies a distinct place in the New York University archives. His presence there is not merely as a footnote, but as a documented participant in the seminal “A’s” performance space that defined the downtown Manhattan underground.)
Eventually, Star Singer travels on out to California. He meets and becomes good friends with the Rabbi, Levy Cunin of Malibu. He works for Disney Studios in The Muppets, gets standing ovations for his musical tribute shows at Malibu Stage Company and becomes a well-liked, popular entertainer in Southern California. Career progress was being made! But, a certain calling kept haunting Star Singer. He felt that our times were not only changing, he had felt that the times were getting . . . increasingly, oh let us just say, disquieting and unsettling. Not just for himself. But, problematic, he felt, yes, for all of humanity! New technologies were hypnotizing everybody everywhere.
And this big problem that would not leave Star Singer’s sense of responsibility was one based on the fact that strides in technology, as in fast improvements in cell phones, lap-top computers, and such were breeding societal changes. Societal changes that were not necessarily good for, yes, a better world. The great big bad paradigm shift is at hand and it is staring at us all in the face, etc.
Clearly, and it is to be understood, Star Singer does indeed appreciate high tech. He knows a few things about streamlined cool technologies. After-all, Bill Gates and his secretary at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, who respected Star Singer’s high-tech company called, “Yo Cool Jacket”… with the legitimate and valid registered trademark…, did, in fact, make a business appointment with Star Singer to learn of Star Singer’s new highly innovative high-tech telephone computer jacket inventions and prototypes! All this occurred before Star Singer learned of serious issues with Gates. BTW, anyone can go to Google and type in: Is there a trademark for Yo Cool Jacket? And, also, if you want to see the Yo Cool Jacket Corporation promotional video, anyone can currently go to YouTube and type in – yocooljacket.
Yes, Star Singer was going through changes. Personal and professional changes. Just like, surely, many other people who devote serious attention to the human condition were going through changes. Only Star Singer had quite a nice advantage. you see, as an expressionist . . a singer-songwriter in the middle of a metamorphosis, living like a gypsy, Star Singer was easily able to simply pack up, pick up, and relocate easy as pie. He thought to himself the time had come to devote his life, his songwriting, and his heart to sharing a consensus of what leaders of freedom were reporting online as important humanitarian truths and much needed justice. Making a new start was more than a wordy phrase to Star Singer. As a result, Star Singer decided to pull up stacks and travel to Cuenca, Ecuador, as a singer of new original songs strictly concerned with freedom and human dignity. He gave up singing and covering Frank Sinatra songs, Beatles and The Eagles songs. With great devotion, knowing he was changing his life completely, Star Singer would brave slings and arrows. He, as all troubadours do, writes songs and sings about the most vital and important subjects of our times. Star Singer sings about what amounts to: Watch out. Humanity must now, more than ever before, be very careful. Questions surface such as: What is transhumanism really? And why is transhumanism the watchword of current days? And, and, and… in addition, vehicles operated by beings representing galaxies located beyond our own Milky Way, as a fascinating subject, just may be something we can explore sometime in the near future… soon.
In starting this new Star Singer career chapter, inspiration comes from quotes by accomplished folk such as – –
• “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt • “Whatever you are, be a good one.” — Abraham Lincoln • “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James • “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” — Mark Twain • “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela • “Well done is better than well said.” — Benjamin Franklin • “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson • “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” — Vincent van Gogh • “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche • “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs • “If you can dream it, you can do it.” — Walt Disney • “Do what you feel in your heart to be right.” — Rosa Parks
Since arriving in Cuenca, Star Singer’s story has been complimented via published articles by GringoPost, Cuenca High Life Magazine, yournews.com. and El Mercurio newspaper. The original controversial music video of great interest called, I Am Star Singer, is very easily experienced by going to YouTube and typing in the search box: I am star singer. These days, one can experience Star Singer live on stage at Yakumama Bistro of Cuenca, Ecuador.
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