Applying for residencia before tourist visa expires - need extension?

[Carstenlundgren]

Hello, completely new here. I am currently coming up on the end of my tourist visa but tomorrow I will have all the documents needed to put in motion my residencia temporaria: antecedentes penales traducidos y apostillados from the States, constancia de inscripción from my University, antecedes penales from Argentina and my certificado de domicilio).

I am wondering if I turn in my paper work before the 90 day tourist permission runs out, that it may not be necessary to extend those 90 days.

Is there anyone that might be able to offer a bit of resolution on this matter?

 

[pixer12]

Migraciones will issue you a residencia precaria that supersedes the tourist visa and which will have a few (usually 3) months of validity. You’ll need to renew the precaria (online) if you don’t have your final temporary residency when the precaria expires.

 

[Carstenlundgren]

Migraciones will issue you a residencia precaria that supersedes the tourist visa and which will have a few (usually 3) months of validity. You’ll need to renew the precaria (online) if you don’t have your final temporary residency when the precaria expires.

Thanks for the reply! I had some issues loading some documents and have paid the boleta. The website says this is all pending and that once the payment is confirmed, I will be able to finalize the second step.That said, are you saying that this precaria will arrive immediately after the completion of the second step? If so I may luck out!

 

[Alby]

They invite you (I think by email, if the system asked you for an email address--my information is a bit out of date on that detail though) for an appointment at Migraciones to which you have to bring the original documents. If they are satisfied with everything you present, they take a photo and your fingerprints and issue the precaria that day. You can pay extra (200,000 pesos) to get an expedited appointment. I had one last week. I'm not sure how it was organized--my lawyer did it for me.

(I suspect you're not at any risk of needing to renew your 90-day residency now that you've uploaded the documents and set the process in motion for a change of status. But I suppose you could always go down to Migraciones and ask them--and do it there and then if the recommend you do it.)

 

[pixer12]

Alby has it correct (though the expedited appointment fee is $50k pesos, not $200k).

As soon as you finish submitting the documents, you should receive an email with the day and time of your appointment (they choose, you don't) along with a precaria that's good for only a few days. However, at the end of the in-person appointment, they'll give you a precaria that is good for 90 days. In my experience they've given me a printed out document then and there, but I always then go to the Migraciones website to download a PDF version.

You will need to monitor the Migraciones website to see if you have been granted the residency. In my experience I have only ever received emails from Migraciones when they want me to submit additional documents, not when they are done and granting me the residency.

 

[Alby]

By the way, one of the migration practices has put out this.

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It claims that anyone who obtained permanent residency prior to 29 May 2025 is not subject to the one-year rule, by which permanent residency is lost if one remains out of the country for more than 365 days. In other words, those who obtained PR prior to May last year can stay away for up to two years and still retain their status. Has anyone else been told this? I have my doubts.