Corrections Policy
This site publishes procedural and price data that changes often — government fees, exchange rates, office requirements, deadlines. We work from official sources and verify pages on a rolling schedule (each verified page shows a “last verified” date), but errors happen. When they do, we fix them quickly and visibly.
Report an error
Email stu@livinginguatemala.com with:
- The page URL
- What’s wrong
- If possible, a link to the official source showing the correct information
What happens next
- We check the claim against the official source (SAT, RENAP, the relevant ministry, Banguat, etc.).
- If confirmed, we correct the page and update its “last verified” date.
- For material errors — wrong fees, wrong legal requirements, wrong deadlines — we note the correction on the page itself.
Substantive corrections are typically published within 2-3 business days of confirmation.
Our sources
How we collect and verify data is documented in our methodology. Every trámite page links to the official sources it’s based on.
Correction log
Material corrections we have published, with their dates.
21 September 2026 — prepaid chip price. Our SIM card guide said in several places that neither carrier publishes a chip price. That is no longer true: Claro’s own help centre publishes Q5.00 for the SIM plus a Q10.00 initial recharge to activate it (read 21 September 2026). It remains true of Tigo’s physical chip, for which no price is published. The corrected figure also feeds our phone plans comparator.
21 September 2026 — construction day rates. Our construction cost pages published day rates (maestro de obra Q200-Q300, albañil Q100-Q175, ayudante Q75-Q100) that contradicted our own service-price pages. They were realigned to maestro de obra Q250-Q400, albañil Q150-Q250, ayudante Q100-Q150. None of those day rates is a published tariff — they are editorial estimates. See the construction cost guide.
