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What do you mean by “he gives me”? Is it in the contract that you have to do it within few hours? I pay my expenses in a similar way but the landlord has to provide me with the original invoice and all expenses are accumulated and paid once a month. Most of this is set in the contract but some...

I was just caught out with this thingy twice in a row. I ended up paying London prices for a Buenos Aires taxi. I was surprised a bit. Didn’t really challenge drivers since it’s the time of galloping prices so it was on the verge of plausible. Then got home, checked Uber and Cabify prices for...

@julia_en_ruta with this double currency bank account, how one is able to spend the money in Argentina? If it’s spending in pesos, are they converted from usd on official rate? Or is it possible to withdraw dollars?

A sad milestone today. WU rate of GBP is over 1000 pesos. Que país!

it's august, all private health care is on maldives, they will only be able to take one's £400 in the beginning of october, if not gone for halloween party. seriously, so many people commute on Ryanair to their better service in eastern europe the OP has a great opportunity to try it out in...

Good old NHS incapable of taking stool samples within few days, how familiar is that! If i were you, I'd get all possible tests and treatments done outside of the UK. It might set you a few quid back but you will have it done before you die of old age.

totally unrelated nevertheless just as important... how did you enable dark mode on this site? I've been looking for this option ever since but all I have is a header and footer in dark mode, the rest is glaring white...

They’ve been recently hacked and not operating for weeks. Looks like they’ve resumed services with prehistoric tech - download and fill the form. This all means waiting time is likely to be weeks at best, likely months.

GBP transfers have fixed fee until £300 then 3.5%. Using this trick you’d pay £12.90 for £300 and £10.50 for £300.01

My friend is big on human rights and works for an NGO that tries to improve the situation for migrants and expats in Argentina. They cooperated with other NGOs and government agencies to create this survey which runs for few years now. It will be open for 3 more days this year if anybody wishes...

is the following correct: 1. you see the price, say USD 1,000, 2. go to checkout they charge you ARS 252,000 official rate (252 today), 3. but you card gets charged about USD 550 (turista rate is 457, VISA is roughly following it) if that's correct, it sounds like the scam loophole that was...

For me paying with a card works out exactly 10% worse off than WU. Sometimes it feels like a lot to pay for convenience. But some other times the inconvenice reminds how BIG it can get! 👇

There are rumours that the new regulations have not only increased the income requirements but also introduced expedited processing and add more ways of proving income, e.g. on top of demonstrating income one could also show investments and savings. Does anybody have more information on that...

There are reports of recent rejections of rentista applications based on WU cash receipts. The wording seems to be unclear whether it’s for authorisation or for the fact that it’s cash and not an account.

They promise to renew within 5 working days. For me it took 2 weeks. For my wife - 5 weeks. "Working" appeared to be the keyword here.

Lucky you! Or rather "you have done your waiting anyway". Either way, looks like the system works at least in some cases. My experience so far is that it's borked with little evidence of the contrary.

Supposedly that’s after it’s been approved and you have requested the plastic?

Congratulations! I hope that means unblocking of whatever prevented them from keeping their timelines of 90-180 days to produce a response. And even from issuing a precaria which recently was taking them weeks to renew. And some hope to those who don’t have much of a home country to return to.

I had my picture taken when submitting initial application and getting my first precaria, presumably they’re just in the beginning of their journey that isn’t likely to end soon. How do you tell Russians from Ukrainians?

Russians are not getting anything processed apparently, so far no approved residences for applications in 2023. Same heard about Ukrainians.