Can I just disappear in Argentina?

[chris]

Butch Cassidy and his gang tried to disappear in Argentina. Didn't succeed.

 

[steveinbsas]

Butch Cassidy and his gang tried to disappear in Argentina. Didn't succeed.

How can anyone expect to disappear if they continue to rob banks?

"After farming for nearly four years the men decided to return to crime and in March 1906 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid robbed a bank of $20,000 in San Luis Province. During the raid a banker was killed. Other raids followed at Bahia Blanca (Argentina), Eucalyptus (Bolivia) and Rio Gallegos (Argentina)."

Source: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WWcassidy.htm

 

[Bajo_cero2]

Worked for Adolph Eichman and other Nazi war criminals. Until it didn't.

40 years later.

So surely someone who isn't on a Most Wanted List could disappear in Argentina. Until you can't. Meaning, someday they may catch up with you and deport you....but odds are in your favor.

The only way you can get depported is if you are stupid enough to try to get a residence (green card). Otherwise, you wait 1 year and 1 day and you can apply for citizenship. Bring you FBI record and birth certificate, both the the lagalization at the Argentinian consulate before you come.
Regards

 

[Chris_Porto]

you wait 1 year and 1 day and you can apply for citizenship
Regards

Just a question about this: How does citizenship work? If you spend, for example, a year in BS AS and go to Montevideo on the buquebus every 3 months to renew your tourist visa, are you still elegible to apply for citizenship after just 1 year??

 

[steveinbsas]

Just a question about this: How does citizenship work? If you spend, for example, a year in BS AS and go to Montevideo on the buquebus every 3 months to renew your tourist visa, are you still elegible to apply for citizenship after just 1 year??

If you go Uruguay every three months you are not renewing your tourist visa.

You are getting a new one and you are wasting your time and money.

Almost everyone who does so is.

As far as I know the only reasons to have a "valid" tourist visa are to get married, rent a hotel room (and possibly a car), and avoid paying the $300 overstay fee upon departure.

Having a "valid" tourist visa is not a requirement for citizenship. The date of your first entry into Argentina is what matters (and starts the clock).

I started two threads on the subject (copy and paste either title in the search box to read more).

Argentine Citizenship for foreigners: Can it really be this easy?

Argentine citizenship for foreigners?

 

[windy]

Beyween 1976 and 1983 an estimated 30,000 argentines did just disapear in Argentina. Tortured,drugged and thrown from aircrafts into the the sea or the river. So yes you can just disapear in Argentina.

 

[JoeBlow]

As far as I know the only reasons to have a "valid" tourist visa are to get married

The state cannot deny you marriage because you're here illegally. They report to imigration that an illegal alien is getting married, but, I was told at a registro civil, this normally doesn't illicit a response from them.

 

[ghost]

Go for it. It's easier than you think. Just be assured that Argentina will provide you with many new and unforseen problems on a daily basis. Evaluate the trade off. But do not expect that Argentina will be a bargin. She takes far more than she gives.

 

[azerty]

It s strange how one decade reversed the world upside down. 10 years ago, South Americans were going to Europe and the US to flee the debt crisis, now this is the other way around, their currencies are going higher with all the cash being or rapatriated or expatriated in fear of rising taxes and a bank run.

As said ghost, dont expect life to be easier, unless you have assets, but then, Argentina and its crazy fiscal system is not the best destination.

 

[Barney]

Beyween 1976 and 1983 an estimated 30,000 argentines did just disapear in Argentina. Tortured,drugged and thrown from aircrafts into the the sea or the river. So yes you can just disapear in Argentina.

Official count is almost 9000