Ok - thanks for the info, good to know.

The next question will then be: Will they deny you to exit the country if for example your vehicle is ruined beyond repairable or if you need to fly home for a family medical emergency or similar issues?

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Markharf makes an excellent point when he states that more information than appears in one's passport entry stamp might be obtained at borders.

Example: with a computer stroke a border official might indicate that you have entered with a motorcyle, and this might not be reflected by the entry stamp in your passport.

My preliminary research consisted of pulling out my many passports and examining entry stamps for South American countries. And, doing a cursory internet search...

Many of the entry stamps in my passports had a bird or airplane symbol plus several other symbols within the entry stamp that I could not decipher. These symbols might indicate if you have entered by air or with a vehicle.

An interesting question might be this: Can the number on your touris visa be cross referenced with TVIPs to determine if you entered the country with a vehicle?

Peru...

My passport entry stamps for Peru do not indicate that I entered by motorcycle.

Here is what I found on the internet: Overland Peru Travel - WikiOverland :

"Storing a vehicle and temporarily leaving the country[edit]

The temporary import permit can be "suspended" indefinitely while you leave the country. One person explains their experience as follows:
It's possible to store vehicles in Cusco at La Quinta Camping. The process is as follows, get to the Duana downtown (Cusco) apply for a suspension, the customs and/or Policia Nacional will come to the campground to make sure the vehicle is there. Milagros the manager of the campground will sign a paper that the vehicle will not get moved for the period of time you apply for the importacion temporal being suspended. That's it. You'll fly or bus from Cusco to Lima and off you go. As I understood from them the process took about 48 hours to be completed.
Storage at La Quinta is S/.12.00 PEN for 24 hours.
This is possible anywhere in Peru and works as follows:
1) You enter the country with your vehicle and get an importation permit of 90 days for it.
2) You go to the local "aduana" (SUNAT) and ask for the permission to leave the country without your vehicle. You will need to give them the address of the place where you leave it and probably a declaration of the owner of that place saying that the vehicle will not be (re-)moved (see above).
3) You can then leave the country without it, BUT you will still need to drive it out of Peru before the 90 days of temporary importation expire.
4) If you want to leave the country for a longer period (no limit in the peruvian law) you have to suspend your Temporary import:
find a save place
go to nearest police office
let the police make an official declaration "car will not move" signed by the owner of the save place
go to banco national and pay 7,9 sol
go to police to collect declaration
go to Sunat aduana let them send your application to borderpost where you entered the country (with a lot of copy's of all your paperwork)
leave the country and wait for email to confirm your suspension
on return go to Sunat with an application de levante de suspension and without your car
Sunat might control the car is still on the same place
Sunat gives a new entry form indicating the number of days that are left to leave the country
For the legal regulations see :: SUNAT :: as well as http://www.sunat.gob.pe/legislacion/...inta-pg.16.htm (in Spanish).
Also see How to suspend a vehicle permit in Lima, Peru for a first-hand write-up of how it's done from December 2013; and [url=http://nonurbia.com/project/suspending-the-car-permit-in-peru/]NONURBIA

Brazil

None of my multiple entry stamps for Brazil indicated that I was entering with a motorcycle. The TVIP requirement for Brazil is not enforced at some borders, but without a TVIP you could be in for a hard time if you are involved in an accident or stopped by the police. The law still requires foreign tourist vehicles to be issued a TVIP upon entering Brazil

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> The next question will then be:
>Will they deny you to exit the country if for example your vehicle is ruined >beyond repairable or if you need to fly home for a family medical
>emergency or similar issues?

Here is an option that could solve returning a motorcycle to your home country in the event of an injury forcing the end or your trip. MedjetAssist offers a rider (a "policy extension") to their medical evacuation insurance product, that will return the motorcycle following an accident. Basically, if you are in really bad shape they will fly you home and pay $3500 (USD) to get your bike home. Note: Motorcycle return is limited to North America (continental United States, Alaska, Canada and Mexico)

https://medjetassist.com/personal-ai...cle-membership

I am not sure if the insurance is available to citizens of every country. If MedjetAssist won't cover you, look around as there may be another insurance carrier in your country that will provide "repatriation" service.

I have taken two major rides. The first in starting in New Jersey to Costa Rica and back (4 months.) The second started in New Jersey, thru Central America, a loop around South America, riding in every country except Paraguay and Chile, back thru Cuba and Mexico (9 months.) On both trips (plus a short 10 ride in Peru), I have always purchased evacuation insurance coverage from MedjetAssist. Hopefully I will never need to use their services. My wife sleeps a little easier when I am gone, knowing that emergency transportation home for medical care following a bad accident in South America won't crush us financially. A grim topic to be sure.

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2012/13 - NJ to Northern Argentina, Jamaica, Cuba and back to NJ
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I went through my passport and study each stamp from 2012 thru 2013. Honduras and Venezuela as already mentioned place a special motorcycle stamp in your passport and add details such as the VIN. My entry stamp for Costa Rica included a handwritten word, "Motociclista", but no other details. The only countries I have not ridden are Chile and Paraguay, so I cannot comment on the customs stamping practices for those countries.

Half way through my trip I flew home from Bolivia for a few weeks. There were no questions about why my motorcycle was no in my carry on luggage. =)

I see this question a lot. Has anyone ever run into problems leaving a Latin American country without their motorcycle? Over staying the TVIP is a problem, but the person leave?

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2012/13 - NJ to Northern Argentina, Jamaica, Cuba and back to NJ
2023 - Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia...back to Peru.

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I have left vehicles behind in Peru, Chile, Ecuador, Brazil and Argentina and never had any queries from Immigration on the way out by plane. None of those add anything to your passport regarding entering by vehicle although most do note that fact - but with no details - in the tourist slip filled out on entry

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Well, my info is as of 2013, which is a while...

BUT

In 2013, you could NOT enter Chile with a bike and exit without the bike. Source: Chile Aduana, Tierra Del Fuego

In 2013, you COULD enter Argentina with a bike and exit without the bike. Source: I did it with no probs or questions asked.

Happy riding!

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My experience March 2013.
I arrived in Punta Arenas by car from Argentina.
I did boat trip: Punta Arenas-> Cabo Hornes -> Ushuaia (without car)
Passport was stamped on the ship (Salida Puerto Navarino;Entrada Argentina)

Then I took local bus from Ushuaia to Punta Arenas
(leaving Argentine, arriving in Chile via Paso San Sebastián, got two stamps, Salida Argentina and Entrada Chile)

Three weeks later left Chile via Paso Dorotea.
Nobody asked for anything.

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