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Santander seems to charge me nothing at all. At the moment. I did a pension deposit yesterday, calculating US$1,350 to be a safe amount given the minimum wage for the month of February (346,800 pesos) and the current peso to US$ exchange rate.

By the way, I hadn't properly read your concern about prejudicing a future application by starting one now and then not completing it properly having been issued it (either by not depositing, or leaving the country for too long in the first year). I don't think they would hold such things...

Well, if my experience is any guide, assuming everything is OK with your renewal and they do eventually approve it, the disposicion, and the subsequent new DNI, will be back-dated to the date your first temporary residency expired.

Just to clarify what may seem like a contradiction between my first and second messages. In the event you didn't complete your first temporary residency (e.g., by leaving the country for too long) and then wanted to apply again, you would start the application from scratch and take, for...

Correct, in theory. If you haven't deposited, they would have grounds to knock you back at your renewal attempt. Having said that, since the depositing requirement came in (mid 2023) I got through two pensionista renewals (2024, 2025) with only two monthly deposits, in the two months leading up...

I was told yesterday by my immigration lawyer that DNI delays are currently at historic levels, due to a lack of plastic and industrial issues.

Going through the bureaucratic contortions might be well worth it in a way you can't yet see. The wheels turn very slowly. If your intention is only to stay a few months, then the mere act of applying for a temporary pensionista residency will suffice without you ever having to deposit a dime...

I am in Salta for around 10 days every six weeks or so. In my experience, eating out is considerably more affordable than in Buenos Aires. AirBnB rates about 12 months ago were maybe 2/3 the cost of comparable apartments in Cordoba, but I haven't checked lately. Most other living costs seem to...

It seems to one of the easiest residency categories. Go for it. The hard part will be staying married long enough to make it through the three-year period toward permanent residency.

It's hard to prove something that doesn't exist doesn't exist. Trust us. Most of us have been in this residency game for years. (If you say you saw a unicorn somewhere and I said it doesn't exist and you say "are you sure?" I've got nowhere to go.)

For expats who earn in USD. For others, the falling value of the USD helps, I believe?

There is no sponsor arrangement. You need to marry your girlfriend. With that, you will get temporary residency for one year, renewable for two more years. At the end of the third year, you can apply for permanent residency, if you are still married. There is no income requirement in that...

What have your respective lawyers said about the meeting the criterion of showing sufficient economic means? For pensionistas for example, did you habe to present evidence of the 5X Monthly Minimum Wage and nothing else? According to the Migraciones website, this seems to be how they determine...

On a slightly different note, at 4.39 am in CABA. I opened the NYT on my phone and scrolled down. Here are the first SIX news items that appeared (in order): Trump is expected to announce Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve Chair; Did Trump really give Nicki Minaj a $1 million Gold Card visa?; Trump...

Good. So, on the basis of your sampling of news across (and conscious of) the bias of each source, what do you believe is happening in Minneapolis?

Good. We could quibble about the placement of some of the sources (NPR only slightly squews left?, the BBC almost top dead center?) but can we all at least agree that in order to make up our minds about what's going on, we can't really just read only The Guardian or the Daily Mail (or the NYT or...

Agreed. But what agenda-free 'news' sources would you recommend?

Actually, I have a friend, Argentine, who now lives in Rome, who is a dead ringer for Milei. I only wish I had a good photo of him to post here.He works in a gelato bar I actually have a friend, an Argentine, who now works in a gelato store in the center of Rome and is a dead ringer for Milei...

This is how you would do it if you chose to go down this path. https://www.argentina.gob.ar/servicio/obtener-una-autorizacion-de-trabajo-transitoria

I just paid AUD 14.90 per kilo for red bell pepper at Woolworths, equivalent to USD 10.00, or 15,000 pesos. According to Dia online, today's price is 11,000 pesos for 1 kg. A maple of eggs is AUD 18.50, roughly USD 12.00 and 18,000 pesos. Two weeks ago I paid 6,000 pesos in BsAs. 1 liter of...