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So, I've jumped through the hoops to get my license in Capital, and I have a pretty simple step-by-step for how to make it happen with a minimum of hassle. This is written from a US perspective, so your mileage may vary if you're starting from another country.
Step 1: Gather your documents. If you don't want to start over as a principiante, you'll want your Motor Vehicle Record from the US. This will serve in place of the "Certificado de Legalidad" in order to bypass the two years of restrictions for principiantes.
Step 1a: Verify your MVR has the date you were originally licensed as well as when your most recent one was issued. If it doesn't have the date of original licensure AND your current license isn't more than 2 years old, you have to start over as a principiante.
Step 2: Get your MVR apostilled. Each state has its own process for this. I have a Tennessee license, so it went about like this:
- Go on the State of Tennessee website and pay $5 for a copy of the Motor Vehicle Record
- Get the MVR notarized by an online notary in TN
- Get the notary signature certified by the county clerk in their county of practice
- Get the notarized certificate apostilled
- Ship it to Argentina
Step 3: Go down to your local librería and have a color copy of your existing license made. If your state has a driver's handbook in Spanish, also print the page that has a chart of the types of vehicles permitted for each license type.
Step 4: Take the license and your apostilled, certified, notarized MVR down to the translator of your choice and get a certified translation.
Step 5: Breathe. Pour yourself a drink and relax for a few minutes. Then start preparing by going here and taking the practice exam until you consistently get it right. You can Google for the questions/answers for CABA. Read them, study them, then retake the practice exam. https://www.testdeconducir.com.ar/categoria/b
Step 6: Get yourself an Automóvil Club Argentino membership. This will cost you around 40k-ish pesos right now.
Step 7: Email the ACA Escuela de Conducción and ask for a turno for the educación vial course. They'll ask you for your DNI, etc, then give you a date/time.
Step 8: Sit through the two hour Zoom call and pay some attention to the call.
Step 9: Pay the Boleta CENAT. You'll find instructions on the CABA website for this. It's about 6k pesos.
Step 10: After the mandatory two hour Zoom call and paying the CENAT, go to the ACA Sede Central, 3rd floor and schedule your appointment for the actual exam. They'll send you a link, you use the link to pay for the license itself. Roughly 26k pesos now. This is the part where they'll also ask if you want to do manual or automatic. Go manual, that way you won't have an automatic-only restriction.
Step 11: On the day of your appointment, go to the ACA Sede Central, 1st floor with all of the docs you gathered in steps 1-4, duly translated into Spanish and hand them to the nice folks behind the counter. You will probably have to point out the part on the translation where it has the date of original issue for your license.
Step 12: Wait. All of your docs have to get scanned and sent to Roca for verification and to decide if you get to bypass the principiante step.
Step 13: Go through the examen psicofísico. It's not hard, and the psychology exam is literally drawing pictures from a card onto a piece of paper.
Step 14: After the psicofísico, you'll take the theory test. It'll be the same questions you saw in the exam simulations you started in Step 5. You have to get at least 85% to pass. I got 97.5% for what it's worth.
Step 15: When the theory test is done, walk six blocks to the corner of Castex y Casares to take the driving portion. The examiner in my case was very chill, we chatted a bit, then drove the circuit. It's about 10 blocks, takes about 5-10 minutes. Easy.
Step 16: Go back to the ACA Sede Central, 1st Floor and wait for them to add up your scores. If you did all the above properly, you should have a shiny new 10 year license. They'll tell you to sit down after it's all approved and then call you back up to hand you the physical license right there.
Step 17: Go home and relax. You did it.
Step 1: Gather your documents. If you don't want to start over as a principiante, you'll want your Motor Vehicle Record from the US. This will serve in place of the "Certificado de Legalidad" in order to bypass the two years of restrictions for principiantes.
Step 1a: Verify your MVR has the date you were originally licensed as well as when your most recent one was issued. If it doesn't have the date of original licensure AND your current license isn't more than 2 years old, you have to start over as a principiante.
Step 2: Get your MVR apostilled. Each state has its own process for this. I have a Tennessee license, so it went about like this:
- Go on the State of Tennessee website and pay $5 for a copy of the Motor Vehicle Record
- Get the MVR notarized by an online notary in TN
- Get the notary signature certified by the county clerk in their county of practice
- Get the notarized certificate apostilled
- Ship it to Argentina
Step 3: Go down to your local librería and have a color copy of your existing license made. If your state has a driver's handbook in Spanish, also print the page that has a chart of the types of vehicles permitted for each license type.
Step 4: Take the license and your apostilled, certified, notarized MVR down to the translator of your choice and get a certified translation.
Step 5: Breathe. Pour yourself a drink and relax for a few minutes. Then start preparing by going here and taking the practice exam until you consistently get it right. You can Google for the questions/answers for CABA. Read them, study them, then retake the practice exam. https://www.testdeconducir.com.ar/categoria/b
Step 6: Get yourself an Automóvil Club Argentino membership. This will cost you around 40k-ish pesos right now.
Step 7: Email the ACA Escuela de Conducción and ask for a turno for the educación vial course. They'll ask you for your DNI, etc, then give you a date/time.
Step 8: Sit through the two hour Zoom call and pay some attention to the call.
Step 9: Pay the Boleta CENAT. You'll find instructions on the CABA website for this. It's about 6k pesos.
Step 10: After the mandatory two hour Zoom call and paying the CENAT, go to the ACA Sede Central, 3rd floor and schedule your appointment for the actual exam. They'll send you a link, you use the link to pay for the license itself. Roughly 26k pesos now. This is the part where they'll also ask if you want to do manual or automatic. Go manual, that way you won't have an automatic-only restriction.
Step 11: On the day of your appointment, go to the ACA Sede Central, 1st floor with all of the docs you gathered in steps 1-4, duly translated into Spanish and hand them to the nice folks behind the counter. You will probably have to point out the part on the translation where it has the date of original issue for your license.
Step 12: Wait. All of your docs have to get scanned and sent to Roca for verification and to decide if you get to bypass the principiante step.
Step 13: Go through the examen psicofísico. It's not hard, and the psychology exam is literally drawing pictures from a card onto a piece of paper.
Step 14: After the psicofísico, you'll take the theory test. It'll be the same questions you saw in the exam simulations you started in Step 5. You have to get at least 85% to pass. I got 97.5% for what it's worth.
Step 15: When the theory test is done, walk six blocks to the corner of Castex y Casares to take the driving portion. The examiner in my case was very chill, we chatted a bit, then drove the circuit. It's about 10 blocks, takes about 5-10 minutes. Easy.
Step 16: Go back to the ACA Sede Central, 1st Floor and wait for them to add up your scores. If you did all the above properly, you should have a shiny new 10 year license. They'll tell you to sit down after it's all approved and then call you back up to hand you the physical license right there.
Step 17: Go home and relax. You did it.
