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Most people carry around a mental map of the globe that is about 95% ocean. I've mentioned here before that acquaintances in my home country think I live in Mexico. That's because the US looms large in the culture (North America is probably about 3% of the 5% global landmass they see in their...

Is it also a female thing? I have heard many people both here and in Peru long for a trip to Disney, or tell me that they achieved their dream of going there. As far as I can recall, all women.

Like many, she overrates her English skills. She did OK, but was well out of her depth just on language skills alone. Zelensky made the same mistake at the White House.

It's not clear whether Bajo is referring to the failed attempt to apply under the Rentista, or the proposed attempt to apply under the Family Reunification. Or both. Will he clarify? In any event, it will be interesting to see how Pevan's case plays out. I hope he keeps us updated.

If it's a UK criminal record you need (i.e., if you are a UK citizen with a UK passport applying for Argentine residency), you need to do it yourself. You start here with an electronic application: https://acro.police.uk/s/acro-services/police-certificates ACRO will send the certificate to a...

Exactly. The category is important to know. Three rules of thumb: It's good to plan ahead. A renewal is barely any less involved than the initial application, for the Rentista and Pensionista categories if you are in one of those. You have to present all the documents again (updated)...

Returning by bus from Bolivia last week entering at the Aguas Blancas border control nobody was asking the Bolivians to present health insurance.

If you have a residency issued by Migraciones, you are almost certainly an Argentine tax resident too. That doesn't necessarily mean you should be/should have been paying Argentine tax up to now, but it may, depending on your income levels (if any) and worldwide assets (if any). I don't know...

The caveat being that the benefit accrues only to foreigners bringing in dollars and changing them at the Bolivian blue rate.

I have to agree with Perry on this one. I was in Cochabamba and Tarija for 7 days last week. It was staggeringly cheap.

OK. There would have to be some doubt, I would think. If I were in your shoes, (I'm from a country where the airlines always check this matter), I wouldnt arrive at the airport expecting the airline staff to recognize meaning of the rather dodgy looking Migraciónes one pager precaria. But they...

The question is not at all clear

Only the need to spend as little as one day every 12 months in Arg in order to retain it (permanent residency) versus 183 days (temporary residency).

If enforced, it would lead to the recontra complicated situation of having to apply again for temporary residency, and maintain it for three years before recovering the permanent. But to maintain the temporaries, you'd have to be inside Argentina 183 days each year.

Retrospectively no. But from here on in, to the extent that the current DNU remains in force, and to the extent they are inclined to enforce it, you would lose the permanent residency if you were more than 12 months outside the country.

It would be very interesting to know if anyone who contributes here has ever, or knows of anyone who ever, lost their permanent residency for 2 years out of the country; more specifically if anyone has ever arrived at the border with a DNI in hand and been told it is no longer valid for excess...

As a former Peruvian resident who has been to Ayacucho where a decisive independence battle was fought, I proudly pronounce it the Peruvian way to taxi drivers and they don't correct me. They just grunt and take me there.

I've lived on Ayacucho for 7 years. In all that time I doubt I've ever heard a neighbour, encargado, shopkeeper, taxi driver or bus driver, or anyone else say the street name. In these micro neighborhoods, most people know where they are. It's part of the charm. I think we are all imagining alot...

This rule is, in fact, so little-known that only readers of this thread have access to it. I just asked ChatGPT for a list of palindromes in Spanish and the rule holds up in most cases of word of two syllables or more. It is my unique contribution to Spanish linguistics and I can die happy...

There is no point trying to use the conventional alphabet to describe pronunciation. For that we have the International Phonetic Alphabet. It shows the word to be pronounced (in received English) as: /ˈbɪlɪŋhɜːst/ A reasonably common Argentine prounciation is as follows: /ˈbiʝinɡuɾs̺t/ But...