How to renew a pensioner's residency visa via Radex / Renaper

[RichardAlem]

Yes, there is an online element to it. But, ultimately, you have to attend an appointment at Migraciones, deliver the hard copy apostilled originals and their official translations, have your fingerprints retaken and a new photo taken for your eventual new DNI. The same process as last year. Indeed, you will even get a new precaria issued to tide you over until they assess your docs and approve the new temporary pensionista residency (even though your current temporary residency has not yet run out).

Thanks Alby.

On this trip, I've been here continuously since the end of September 2022. So, I am hoping that taken together, I can use the previously apostilled, translated and legalized FBI report dated September 2023 AND a new Argentina police report to cover Migraciones’ three year criminal history requirement.

The FBI report should be the only apostilled document in my case because, regarding income, the U.S. State Department will not put an apostille on a Department of Veterans Affairs benefits letter nor a Social Security benefits letter because they are not signed in ink, they are copies of a signature. One goes to their website and downloads them.

Anyway, I’ll let the attorney handle it all as I don’t have the mental strength to go through the Migraciones process again and again and again.

 

[Alby]

Thanks Alby.

On this trip, I've been here continuously since the end of September 2022. So, I am hoping that taken together, I can use the previously apostilled, translated and legalized FBI report dated September 2023 AND a new Argentina police report to cover Migraciones’ three year criminal history requirement.

The FBI report should be the only apostilled document in my case because, regarding income, the U.S. State Department will not put an apostille on a Department of Veterans Affairs benefits letter nor a Social Security benefits letter because they are not signed in ink, they are copies of a signature. One goes to their website and downloads them.

Anyway, I’ll let the attorney handle it all as I don’t have the mental strength to go through the Migraciones process again and again and again.

You may not even need the FBI report at this stage of your journey. Your lawyer will advise. Mine told me to stop after the first renewal, and they haven't asked for it since, even though Migraciones know I have left the country at times (the principal reason being to obtain the apostilled document they impose on me each year; if I wanted citizenship now, I'd fail the new two-year test due to the need to get the damn apostilled letter for Migraciones).

I guess Migraciones must have experience of the US documents you mention not being apostilled, if they can't be. So it may be a privilege extended to US pensionistas. In my case, the foreign affairs department does apostille these downloaded standard letters provided you first get a public notary to legalize them with his or her seal. So it's actually a costly two-step process that I prefer not to burden relatives with.

 

[Bajo_cero2]

Hello everyone. Currently, and in all likelihood, my one year residency visa as a pensioner will expire prior to a judge adjudicating my request for citizenship. So, trying to renew my DNI online via Radex and Renaper, this is the closest point to which I arrived regarding renewing it.

DNI para extranjeros en el país

Si naciste en el exterior, la forma de obtener tu DNI varía en función de que tengas o no la residencia argentina.

www.argentina.gob.ar

But alas, as usual with Migraciones, things are not as they seem and it appears that the instructions contained are for a new application; not a renewal. In the context of constant change regarding Argentino regulations, and rather than running around Migraciones' office at Antártida, or visiting Renaper sucursales, I would like to know if anyone here has recently renewed their pensioner's one year residency visa online and by what meanss.

Digging further, I found this process:

DNI exprés

Tramitalo en uno de los [Centro de Documentación Renaper](https://www.argentina.gob.ar/interior/dni/centros-de-atencion-renaper) habilitados para esta modalidad o en un [Registro Civil](https://www.argentina.gob.ar/interior/renaper/registros-civiles-provinciales). Recibilo (*) por correo en tu...

www.argentina.gob.ar

Can anyone please advise if there is a simple online renewal process. I was told immediately post-Covid that I could simply renew my existing, expired DNI but upon arriving that was not the case and I had to start the entire process from the start; a process I will do all I can to avoid again.

Thanks.

Normally you have to be in Argentina for renewals.