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You realize that doesn't make sense, right? How is it the MEP rate if they end up charging you something else? Visa charges you according to the Visa exchange rate, and Western Union uses their own rate. It’s not like either one is pegged to the MEP.

According to official visa exchange rate site 1USD = 1156 Central bank rate: 1USD = 1130. It's like 2% difference today. Does a 2% difference really qualify as 'obviously' better? --- The "dólar turista," as IamWaldo mentioned above, applies to Argentine tourists shopping abroad with their...

It’s not just about inflation - it’s about the cost of living. A friend of mine works at a major international company here, and they’re trying to fill a similar position both in Argentina and in the UK. After all the recent changes and rising living costs, they’re now offering a higher salary...

If you're not sure about getting married and need more time to decide than the time a tourist visa allows you to stay in Argentina, this might not be your best and fastest option.

The best and fastest option might be to come on a tourist visa, get married in Argentina, and then apply for residency or work on regularizing your status from within the country. Expressing immigration intent and then applying for a tourist visa might not be the best idea.

Cepo is not an abbreviation - it's a word that literally means "trap" or "constraint." In local financial context, it refers to a set of government-imposed restrictions on buying and selling U.S. dollars. Since people couldn't freely access dollars for a long time, a black market emerged with an...

Now that the cepo is over, you don’t really need a cambio guy. You can exchange dollars electronically and have the pesos deposited straight into your account. Banks now buy and sell dollars directly, and the rate is about the same as the blue rate.

I think to withdraw dollars from an ATM here, you need to have dollars in an account in Argentina to begin with. You can’t just withdraw dollars directly from a U.S. account.

Non-refundable means you can't get your money back, but airlines often allow you to change the date (usually with a penalty and fare difference) or receive a credit/voucher for future travel.

You seem overly focused on Bitcoin and the price of electricity, which is just a technical detail. The core idea was to create a limited resource that isn't controlled by any government or central authority. If you removed the mining component from the price of gold - say we’ve already...

I think the number needs to be associated with your google account, not your sister's google account. Then when you go to https://voice.google.com, you will see the google voice number and you will be able to call from it. So, basically, she needs to log into Google as you when requesting the...

On the companies' official websites, of course. https://usa.visa.com/support/consumer/travel-support/exchange-rate-calculator.html https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/personal/get-support/convert-currency.html

It makes it look like you're pretending to be in the US by using a VPN service. Here's an example from free Windscribe VPN IP: https://api.ipapi.is/?ip=86.106.87.105

Just by checking an IP address against a database, websites can usually tell if a request is coming from a VPN, a datacenter, or a residential connection. If it's not coming from a typical residential provider like Comcast or T-Mobile, but instead from something like an Amazon datacenter, it...

I believe only Banco Macro receives SS payments here.

So why don't you just open a bank account in the US?

Doesn't using the word 'salary' together with 'rentista' create a bit of dissonance in your mind? 'Rentista' implies an uninterruptible source of income, in my opinion, so it can't be a salary.

For some reason, they were held at the airport for days, not just hours. That gave the lawyer enough time to take action - if I remember correctly, basically on humanitarian grounds. In any case, as illustrative as the pregnant women's situation was, it's probably unreasonable to expect to be...

I know you believe lawyers can do anything, but I’m pretty sure a judge has to be involved for something like that. And in Argentine terms, 'immediately' doesn’t necessarily mean within a few hours.

If your entry is denied at the airport, you're usually put on the same plane and sent back within a few hours. I doubt that would change unless your lawyer personally shows up at the airport with a judge’s order before the plane departs.