Team
Tolatam is built and maintained by one person — supported by official sources, expat communities, and reader feedback.
The site is intentionally a small project. There is no editorial board, no marketing department, and no team of country managers. Every guide is written, fact-checked, and updated by the same person who lives in Latin America and uses these procedures personally.
Author and maintainer
Timur Bondarenko — software specialist who relocated from Kyrgyzstan to Montevideo, Uruguay in 2025. The site grew out of his own relocation file: a folder of bookmarks, screenshots, and notes that turned into structured guides as friends and colleagues kept asking the same questions. Timur personally went through the Uruguayan residency process, opened local bank accounts, rented an apartment in Montevideo, and works with local lawyers and accountants — every guide on Uruguay is informed by first-hand experience.
Sources and reviewers
Beyond personal experience, every article is built on official primary sources — government statistics offices (INE, INDEC, IBGE, INEGI, DANE, INEC), central banks (BCU, BCRA, Banxico, Banrep), migration authorities (DNM, RENAPER, Polícia Federal, INM, Migración Colombia, SNM), and international datasets (UNODC, World Bank, OECD). Country-specific sections are reviewed by readers and contributors who live in those countries; their corrections and additions go directly into the next revision.
Want to contribute?
If you live in a Latin American country and would like to contribute first-hand experience — a step-by-step account of your residency application, a city guide, a comparison of healthcare providers — Tolatam is happy to credit and link to authors. Use the contact page or the chat widget to get in touch.