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Like Ceviche, I have a hard worker, honest, once a week, with us 10 years. She looks out for us, considers herself the house manager when we aren't here. At the beginning of this year, I asked her what rate she wanted, and she said 3500 per hour. I pay by the day (without travel), so I have...

I got the same Santander notice. As I read it, if I am okay with the 4 x SMVM, then I don't have to do anything. Is that right? I don't work here. The notice said they needed to know more about my finances. "Es por eso que, si no tenés registrada tu actividad formal en la AFIP (ya sea...

Agree with Brian. Our experience in 2014-15 was that we entered in October. We got married end of Dec. and in Jan applied for green card. No problems. We also received legal advice to leave some time between entering before (marrying and) seeking green card. You need to have enough time...

On Jan 2. Guardia at Hospital Aleman. Consult, fulll bloodwork and urinalysis, 2 x-rays (abdomen and chest) and abdominal sonogram. On mastercard: $94 usd. Jan 10: CT scan pelvic and abdominal, on mastercard, $194.

A visiting friend wants to extend her stay and needs some more USD to pay rent and other expenses in USD. Is there any easy way to get dollars in Buenos Aires? As a one-time deal, not ongoing.

Thanks for posting this. Very interesting explanation of what is going on in politics here.

For the full 50% spouse must be 65. At 62, they can get a benefit but reduced. The formula is here:

Maybe there are some benefits that require 10 years, but not this one. my husband and I are not yet married 10 years. i don't remember our exact timeline, but this reference from SSA says it is one year. https://faq.ssa.gov/en-us/Topic/article/KA-01999

Not true. I'm alive and my spouse gets the benefit.. but she might still get it "even" if he is already dead.

If you are getting married and receiving U.S. Social Security, be sure to look into filing for her. She will likely qualify to receive a separate benefit based on being your spouse. The benefit could be equal to one half the amount of yours.

Maybe it is different at the airport. I am reporting what I was told at the Personal office on Santa Fe in Recoleta about 3 weeks ago. We were in a situation where I had an esim but my husband didn‘t. Both phones are in my name, and they did add his, but the woman who did it seemed surprised...

Personal has eSims. The current policy is only to give them to people with contracts and not for people with prepago, or pay as you go. We have e-sims in our prepagos, but they are from before they instituted the current policy. We use them as a second sim, keeping the US numbers active as well.

Does anyone know if Paxlovid (Nirmatrelvir w/ ritonavir,) covid treatment is available in Argentina? If so, how do you get it? We don't have covid now, but think it very likely we will get it in the coming weeks/months. We are old and want to be prepared.

I know I shouldn’t think in usd, but would 12,000 pesos. (1000 pesos per month) be excessive? That‘s $40.

Any advice on how much to give our long-time building porter as a regalito for Christmas/ i.e. year-end tip?