Got married! Now how to get citizenship?

[Kenitobkk]

How long does it to get permanent residency from marriage?
Are there any bueraccy like migraciones come and check whether its real marriage or not? I am worried i gonna marry real one but dont want to deal with BS checking extra etc.

There's nothing given on the spot in this country. It took me 7 months to get my PR after I got married. It could have been faster had I not run into some delay with certain documents but 7 months was still pretty fast I believe. Like @SinPulgas said, they interview you to determine whether your marriage is a sham. Hope this will give you some idea.

 

[doctor_hamster]

Thanks guys. appreciate it.

I think 7 month is fast in LATAM standard bueraccacy. You are lucky. Probably took more than a year.

I heard Migraciones is slower than Judges (Citizenship process).

 

[duggie]

@El_fuego Congratulations on your marriage!

If you intend to process your permanent residency and citizenship in Buenos Aires, you can follow my summary below:

Permanent residency and citizenship are processed in two separate government entities. They have nothing to do with one another. Required documents are slightly different.

Permanent residency = Migraciones (Immigration)
Citizenship = Juzgado (Court)

For Permanent residency.
If you married an Argentine, you can start your permanent residency process right away in the link below.

https://www.argentina.gob.ar/servicio/radicaciones-residencia-permanente

If you're not fluent in Spanish, it is better to have your Argentine spouse do all the process for you. The website tells you what documents you need to bring etc etc.

For Citizenship.
Marrying an Argentine also allows you to start the process of acquiring Argentine citizenship as well. The 2-year period is waived. The first thing you need to do is send an email to [email protected]

In the email, include your name, family name and DNI (in case you already have one, if not, your passport number). Also, indicate in your email that you have just married an Argentine national and now you wish to start the citizenship process. In a couple of days, they will email you back with an application form that you need to print out and fill out, and inform you about your turno (your appointment with date, time and location where you need to go to submit your documents) and what documents to bring. Mine turno was about one month away from when they emailed me back.

I hope this summary helps simplify the process for you.

Thanks so much for all these details. I'm wondering: how do you prove regular income to the judge or DNM without a local bank account in your, the foreigner's, name? Can you use proof of your local spouse's regular Argentine income?

 

[Kenitobkk]

Thanks so much for all these details. I'm wondering: how do you prove regular income to the judge or DNM without a local bank account in your, the foreigner's, name? Can you use proof of your local spouse's regular Argentine income?

If I remember correctly, I didn't need to provide medio de vida for the PR process. However, for the citizenship process, you do need to provide medio de vida and I used my spouse's proof of income for that.

 

[darksider415]

For what it's worth, I got my PR in 78 days from in-person turno to conclusion after marriage. However, I'm pretty sure 90% of that is because a: I wrote letters through the contact form every 48 hours, after my wife got her PR and b: I applied for PR at the same time as my wife, since she's Brazilian and qualified through Ley 26.240

If we count the time it took to get my plastic DNI, it was about 130 days total.