Recent content by cosmolat

Update: As you all told me it would be, it was painless. We had a lovely 26 hours in Colonia and didn't get asked a single question on the way back. In fact, the woman giving us our exit stamp on the way out of BA went out of her way to remind us "hoy NO! Mañana SI!" for our return... apparently...

The other thing I would mention is, as Steve says, to abandon any hope you have to "pass" as local or not to feel like a tourist. That will not happen, even once you start saying lluvia as shoovia and learn the "vos" conjugation. That's ok! Learn to view "de donde sos?" as a friendly, not a...

the amount of money necessary to get by in BA is something of a hot topic here. Personally, it strikes me that many of the long-term forum members are quite/very well off. Even if your standard of living is much more flexible/less expensive than some here, Buenos Aires is not a cheap city if you...

As many have reported on this forum, unfortunately the facts are not having much/any impact on my argentine employer. Ticket is booked and I am off tomorrow morning for 24 hours... I guess I'd rather risk immigration than get fired outright - although, to be charitable, i don't think it's a case...

Yeah, I have a job which I got about 5 months after arriving - that said, I didn't look for a job till about March (got here in November) and got a call for an interview about a week after starting to look. YMMV depending on what you're looking for and how wedded you are to doing something...

Thanks Queso! Perfect mixture of facts and comforting words, just what I was looking for! It's just an unpleasant situation to be in, but I feel slightly more reassured now... and anyway, the ferry is tomorrow morning so there's nothing else to be done :)

Hey! I did something similar and moved here slightly after graduating :) The one thing I would say is that it's very uncommon for companies here to hire sight unseen. Even international companies (there was a greenpeace job posted here a while back) specify that you need to actually be *in...

Thanks Steve! You've helped me so many times with stuff like this.I've told them repeatedly that I don't actually need to go and that it's possible to legalize one's status without a current tourist visa, but they were very confused and kept insisting this is the only way. At this point it's...

sorry, I meant towrite february. I don't expect special treatment-I know this is technically breaking the law and it's lucky to be let through. Ijust wanted to hear about others' recent experiences.

I Agreed. They will legalize me once my probation period is up in a month, it is just unfortunate my visa expires before that time. I haven't heard anything positive or negative about running to Colonia in quite some time -presumably if there were a spate of expats being held up, we would...

I don't have any other visa runs. I arrived in November andonly renewed once at migraciones. I don't know why they want me to either. I thinkthey arejust covering their ass,because it's "not legal to work with an expired visa," they say, but of course it's not legal to work with a tourist visa...

I've been told my my argentine employer that I "must" make a trip to Uruguay to renew my tourist visa before they will help me obtain a dni. The visa expires tomorrow, the 13th,so we booked a ticket and will be returning the next day, the 14th. I got a 90 day extension stamp at migraciones in...

Thanks Steve & Ben, that's helpful. I think I'd prefer to stay put anyway - nothing against Uruguay, but the whole visa run thing has always seemed a little sketchy, and if the expired visa doesn't make a difference I'd rather save the Buquebus fee :)

Or is it? I'm sure someone here knows better than I :) My boyfriend and I have been here since last november. He's gotten his student visa squared away, but I'm a bit confused about how best to deal with my situation. We renewed our tourist visas in february at migraciones, and I have a job...

wouldn't the new rule also apply to paypal2cash? has anyone used this service before? If you don't have a bank account, where do you pick up your money?