Ceviche, CONGRATULATIONS on your accomplishment! Can you tell us in detail how you got your DNI (and passport if you have) once you received your Carta de Ciudadania (assuming you got in Capital Federal)?
After receiving the "letter of citizenship", I had my appointment book at :
" 25 de Mayo"
using website :
http://turnos.mininterior.gov.ar/turnosWeb/
Its very easy to get the same day appointment.
You have to take a print out of the appointment.
After reaching 25 de mayo, their is heavy security there. The guard looks at the print out of the turno, and then you go inside the first desk on left side. Show them the letter of citizenship, and tell them you have to apply for DNI.
They would give you a turno no. Then you await the number to come.
When your number comes, you go to that window and show them the letter of citizenship. They will look at it very carefully. Then they will ask you for your DNI from residency. In my case, I did not have. I had applied straight after 24 months of living in Argentina. Then the clerk asks you for your passport. Then she takes the letter of citizenship and your passport to some senior officer in the office. What transpires inside, you can not see. Then she comes back, with letter of citizenship "authenticated" by the senior officer.
Now you are asked to pose for your photo. All your finger prints on a electronic scanner ( similar as on the airport) is taken. You are asked your address, your marital status, and mobile number. You give it all.
They send me to another window to pay 35 pesos. I do it and return with a receipt to them.
Then you are given a printout with a reference number. You can follow the status of your DNI on the web.
Then you return home.
Within 24 hours of my doing this procedure, I got a sms on my mobile phone that my DNI has been sanctioned.
I was expecting my DNI to arrive in next 3-4 days. It does not. I head back to 25 de Mayo office. Initially the policeman does not allow me to go inside as I do not have a web appointment. Eventually I go inside. They tell me, that the DNI has been dispatched through "OCA". They ask me to pursue matter through "OCA".
I headed for OCA main office. There , they look in computer and say it has not arrived with OCA as yet. As per them, my DNI has left the 25 de Mayo office and has reached OCA but it is in the process of being packed in a envelope which takes few days.
After few days, I again call up OCA and ask them, they say that the DNI is packed in a envelope, it may take a few days to reach. I tell them that I need to use it urgently, can they send it fast? They agree.
Next morning, the OCA postman comes to y building . He is a arrogant guy. he refuses to come to my door. I have to go down with the "reciept" given to me by the clerk at 25 de Mayo office, down to meet the postman on the street. He hands over me the DNI looking at my receipt.
Now I go back to my apartment and go back to :
http://turnos.mininterior.gov.ar/turnosWeb/
I am informed that if I want a fast passport, I go to :-
https://virtual.provinciapagos.com.ar
Here, I have to create a user name and password. They I pay 900 pesos via a foreign credit card, and get a reference number.
Then I go back to :
http://turnos.mininterior.gov.ar/turnosWeb/
Then I book a appointment same day, take a printout and head to 25 de Mayo. Yet again.
The guard looks at my web appointment printout and lets me in.
I go inside, head for the first desk at left. They give me a window number and ask me to wait my turn. On my appointment page, they write "passport express' in bold.
I await my turn and then go to the window. Waiting time 5-10 minutes.The clerk takes my dni and my receipt from the web showing that I have paid 900 pesos. They underline and tick mark "passport express" written by the other window. Then the usual drill. My photos and finger prints yet again. My address, marital status, mobile no. asked yet again. Then a receipt with a reference number is given to me. I head back home around 11 am that day
Within one hour, I reach home, I get a message on my mobile phone that my passport is issued. I think "oh, its a joke...The passport will arrive after 10 days just like the dni". But guess what, "express means express". At 6 pm, the OCA postman arrived at my door. He stands on the street and tells the guard of my building to mee him on the street with my receipt. I go to the street and I meet him and he hands over me, my passport. So I get my passport 7 hours.
I got my DNI in 10 days.
I hope the detailed explanation is of some use to you guys. As Their is lot of information on this forum about citizenship process, but nothing on what happens after. So here it is!
I recently traveled abroad using my new passport. ( I could have used the DNI too). But I like to use the passport to have clear evidence of my arrival and departure stamps in one place.
Let me know if you guys have any queries.
Suerte.
I LOVE ARGENTINA.
) for almost 30 years. After buying an apartment in Caballito I wanted to become a permanent resident, and a citizen if possible. That was long before the new and liberalized immigration laws. I had a local attorney petition residency for me and later our children through the consulate in Houston, where I also had an apartment. After several months we were told to go to the Argentina Consulate in Houston, where our passports were given a visa for "Residente Permanente". Upon return to Buenos Aires I was required to have (for our DNI) my marriage certificate (we were married in Buenos Aires (no translation required for registro civil document). I spent all day at the comisaria de policia nacional to get fingerprinted. I had my US birth certificate translated, apostiled by the secretary of state. I went to the Houston Police Dept. and got a letter signed by the Chief of Police (later a national politician) of anticedents, saying that I had no police record there. I also had those made for my children. All in all I had spent over US $ 1000 in translations and certifications. After all of that was collected we went to Migraciones and turned them in. We were told to return in 4 weeks for our DNI. When we returned our oldest daughter got her DNI, but all our other records were lost. After the laws changed a few years ago, my wife has asked us to become citizens por vincula. After reading this, I am not sure if it will be much easier, and wonder if there is much sense it going through such a procedure once again.