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This is almost certainly an age related requirement; I most certainly didn't have to take any medical tests when I signed up in 2011, and when I added my fiancée in 2023 to my OSDE 450 plan she didn't have to take any medical tests either. I was 28 in 2011 and she was 27 in 2023 when she was added.

The irony is that the roughly $400 USD minimum pension in Argentina is actually higher than the minimum pension in either Portugal, Greece, Hungary or the Czech Republic. The problem of course is that the purchasing power of that $400 USD has been eviscerated and basic goods such as food...

Lack of liquidity in the market (which is the cause of any wide buy/sell spread) and an imbalance between quantity of buyers and sellers in the market. There are far more sellers of gold in Argentina than buyers so the buyers have the advantage in terms of pricing dynamics.

There are multiple places on Avenida Alvear between Callao and Montevideo (two block stretch ) that buy and sell any quantity of gold bars and coins. However, as I have previously states on this forum, Argentina is the place to BUY gold bars/coins and NOT the place to SELL gold. You will get...

You just need to show "an honest way of making a living"; there is no specific monetary requirement or AFIP compliance standard.

You appear to be missing the unfortunate reality that the US dollar has lost at least 66% of its purchasing power since the 1990s for most goods, services and commodities. Median housing price in 1998 $131k USD; $420K in 2025. Gold price 1998 $300; $2900 2025. Gallon of gasoline in 1998...

The exchange rate is "real". For the time being, an individual or business can buy as many USD as they want electronically via the MEP or CCL markets. What the exchange rate is not is sustainable.

OSDE 450 now costs about $900 USD per month for two people.

Prices remaining steady while wages increase is called ECONOMIC GROWTH, not deflation. This is usually caused by an increase in productivity. Factors that lead to an increase in productivity is a conversation for another day.

Anyone with a bank account and online access via phone app or banks website can buy as many dollars as they want at the "dolar MEP" rate and withdraw them from their USD account in cash if they so choose. Yes, the rate is currently 10% or so higher than the MULC rate and the dollars come from...

You were my citizenship lawyer and you are the best. This is not in dispute. However I do not think you are setting reasonable expectations for a Naturalized citizen as there are in fact some (admittedly irrelevant for most people) restrictions in force to be aware of as I posted. I don't...

This is not a true as there are additional restrictions placed upon Naturalized Argentine citizens. For example children born outside Argentina to naturalized Argentine citizens do NOT have a right to Argentine citizenship, whereas children born outside Argentina to native Argentine or...

You are mistaken in that you are confusing Nationality with Place of Birth. On the front of the Argentine citizen DNI it says "Nacionalidad: Argentina" and citizens DNI start with different numbers than foreigners DNI. On the reverse of the Argentine citizen DNI place of birth is listed and...

My first Argentine passport said "Lugar de nacimiento: Estados Unidos". My current Argentine passport says "Lugar de nacimiento: USA". Both passports say "Nacionalidad: Argentina". There is no distinction on the passport as to whether a citizen/national is natural born, born outside...

In the case of soy they will store their production in silo bolsas until a more attractive FX/tax regime emerges and will substitute future soy plantings for crops that they can sell into the domestic market. Keep in mind that many farm exports also pay a substantial "retenciones" export tax...

There will be a devaluation of the official rate to at least 1300-1400 per USD in the first half of 2025 for the simple reason that the farm sector will not export if the current FX regime continues. The BCRA is not accumulating foreign reserves and significant amount of foreign currency...

The USA does not get its "gas" (not natural gas and not gasoline) from foreign countries. The USA is now a net exporter of crude oil and is currently the larger producer of oil and natural gas in the world. Gasoline and diesel price differentials between countries are mostly a result in...

The question is what is the real value of the peso that allows the Argentine economy to function in a state of equilibrium, keeps exports competitive, disincentives imports, allows the Central Bank to accumulate reserves as a result of positive trade flows, and also makes the government running...

Worth noting that most forex trading operates at a leverage ratio of 100-500x. So if $6 trillion USD of nominal forex is trading per day, actual capital deployed as collateral on the trades is only $12 billion to $60 billion USD.

At no exchange rate. Businesses can choose to prices their items in dollars and take dollar payments directly to their dollar denominated accounts. This is the entire point, to take the current under the mattress dollars (which are unproductive, dead money) and get them into circulation/ into...