Recent content by Alby

In January 2021 there was the following thread: Are food and drinks being adulterated to deal with the lockdowns and inflation? I commented as follows: "Flying insect killers don't seem to work either. They can't be putting much of the lethal agent in each can. Those little flies in the bathroom...

I'll chime in with what is probably very outdated information, for what it may be worth. I was advised in 2019 by a staff member at Avenida Antartica to attempt this magic trick in respect of a 10-month's inert precaria that was trying without success to turn itself into a temporary residency...

Good question, Frank. Since tonight we're into scraping through others' posting history, let's see if you "resiste el archivo". The "immensely decent US American visiting in November" you referred to over in the JD Vance visit post is actually as much Peruvian as he is American. But you don't...

In around 2020, around six years after we had been using it on this continent for everything from personal to business, the first of my family and friends in Australia finally discovered WhatsApp, and I thought great, now communication will be better, they can send me photos, videos and vice...

To clarify my own point here, if I understood correctly what happened, an Argentine bank was not prepared to accept the information from the foreign employer itself, but was prepared to do so if that same information came with the OK from a local accountant (matriculado), yet that accountant...

Perhaps not currently relevant (and also a different home country), but as long ago as 2018, I had to produce the documentation for a Rentista application and a simple letter from my home country accountant summarizing everything that the supporting documentation (rental contract, bank...

I changed categories (from Rentista to Pensionista) AFTER having been awarded the Rentista and holding it for a year; in other words, when it came time to renew the Rentista, we instead put in a Pensionista application. It sent Migraciones into a tailspin, since they hadn't seen something like...

https://asunciontimes.com/culture/paraguayan-history/the-rise-and-fall-of-nueva-australia-paraguays-ill-fated-australian-colony/

I go back to Lima every year, one of the main reasons being for an appointment with my dentist there (who most foreign embassy staff use), who has been caring for my teeth since 2012, labours incessantly for an hour (and with seemingly state-of-the-art equipment), sometimes more if the gap...

Are US Social Security recipients actively being targeted by ACRA to pay tax on that income? Probably not. Is that income taxable in Argentina? It will depend on personal circumstances. The answer is ‘yes’ if the person meets the conditions for tax residency under articles 116 to 123 of the Ley...

It all depends on what the agency that issues the apostille (generally, the foreign affairs-responsible department of government, or an agent it contracts the service out to) requires. So you will need to check there first. In my case, for example, the foreign affairs department will apostille...

The wording of the letter is important for the pensionista. They want to know it is a pension that lasts for life. My (state) provider has a generic letter for precisely these kinds of purposes, and it was almost perfect, except that it said the pensions it provides are "generally" payable for...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-11/battle-for-the-blue-zones-longevity-science-newman-buettner/106846524

My experience with lawyers (and escribanos) here and elsewhere in South America, across migration, employment, taxation, and property matters: they will never give you a lump-sum up-front quote, especially if the process is a multi-year one, like a residency "whole process" (although I have had...

In other words, you buy a separate policy with Assist Card, or similar. I think they cover you for trips of up to 60 days. A one-year policy (multiple trips) costs only slightly more than a one-off sixty day policy.