AFIP will only allow you to buy dollars if you are travelling outside of the country. You are not allowed to buy dollars for investment. In fact it goes a little bit farther -- if you are travelling to say, France, you will not be allowed to buy USD because that is not the currency of your supposed destination country. This is ridiculous I know because obviously there will be very little of some country's currencies available in Argentina at all. To get AFIP approval you need a clave fiscal, you need your dates of travel, you may even need to show your tickets -- I haven't looked in ages so can't remember exactly. Anyway based on the last time my husband tried --- and believe me, the rules have probably changed by now, a few months later --- you have to apply 48 hrs before leaving the country. The AFIP will do their magic calculations and come up with a random amount of USD that they have decided you can buy -- often that amount will be a big fat 0. If you are approved for purchase you then need to run to the bank and be there at opening, present your forms from AFIP and then you will be able to buy --- in theory. Let's say the AFIP miraculously approves you for the purchase of 800 bucks, but you get to the bank, maybe they have decided they will only allow purchases of up to 300 bucks a person that day, so even though you have approval for more, that's all you're going to get. The reality is if you are approved for anything at all you will only get a max of like 50 bucks a day for the duration of your trip. And be warned, if you try and buy and then don't leave the country for your trip, you may have the AFIP after you and forcing you to sell back your dollars at a rate decided by the AFIP.
Basically, the AFIP approved way doesn't exist anymore. Paypal may still work for some but I know my husband has been blacklisted, we're trying the ayuda familiar route now but between the time we submitted our papers and last week when the bank asked for some more items, the rules have already changed for that, and I know some people who have had their latest payment of ayuda familar denied as well.
Basically, the AFIP approved way doesn't exist anymore. Paypal may still work for some but I know my husband has been blacklisted, we're trying the ayuda familiar route now but between the time we submitted our papers and last week when the bank asked for some more items, the rules have already changed for that, and I know some people who have had their latest payment of ayuda familar denied as well.
