Seeking opinions on my situation --
- Tourist Visa expires Dec 25th, I'm on a Canadian passport
- Last document for applying for the DNI was just "legalized" at the Argentine Consul in Toronto, the documents will be forwarded to us here (via my mother's house) for submission to migraciones here, but won't be arriving until late January.
- On top of this my passport expires June 1, 2010 so need to renew my passport before we can submit for DNI (less than six months validity at that point).
So what do you think? Should I apply for an extension of my visa at migraciones (I have a copy of my Canadian marriage certificate so according to Arg consul in Canada they're not allowed to kick me out, and we've been back and forth with getting docs legalised for 7+ months, they rejected my first birth cert because it was too "old", then they had me pay an extra fee and get my police rec certified by DFAIT etc)
- Also, is this new "entry fee" in effect? Will I be charged for that? If so, what happens when you change your passport, do you have to keep your old passport to show a stamp (I'm assuming they do give some kind of recibo that you've paid the fee).
The way I see it I could just forget about renewing the visa, except that when I go to renew my passport at the embassy they may give me some looks of disapproval and strong words (come on, they're Canadians, they won't do much more, but we're pretty good at making each other feel guilty)
However if I have to pay this entry fee, and if the fee has something to do with the expiry date of your passport, I'd rather just get the new passport and then pay the multa at the airport and the fee the next time I enter the country.
Anyway any opinions would be great to hear, kind of down to crunch time. I could always go tomorrow or friday to renew my visa and then drop in my passport application right after.