Hello,
part 1
On sept.10, at the immigrations office in BsAs, my friend from Los Angeles, "G", who has only been here for 6 months on a tourist visa with just 1 trip to colonia 3 months ago, just got that new big stamp that i saw a photo of in another thread that says: "ultima prorroga - 90 days" when she attempted to extend her tourist visa. Immigrations said this stamp means that she will not be able to renew her tourist visa neither there nor by going to colonia, they said they want her to get legalized or she has to leave. (they even humorously told her: "she could marry an argentine or leave, but they dont recommend that she marries an argentine.").
note: (total in her passport, she had 3 other arg. tourist entrance stamps, from a one month trip 1.5 yrs ago, and from a 6 mo trip 3 years ago. )
part 2: my request for new information from the forum
let us know if if you know any tourist who has:
1. been in argentina on tourist stamps for over 6 months (the new decreto says you can get 1 extension, so please dont about post this)
2. renewed or extended their visa after sept.10th or so (i dont care if it was before this date, The new immigration law just went into effect last week, so please dont post any information older than that, we all know in the past it was mostly fine).
3. please, also mention what country they were from.
my personal introduction: I am from the USA, and have been living in buenos aires for the last 4 years with perma-tourist visa renewals. I appreciate all the advice posted here - thank you. I have never posted before. I am worried because i have read about the new immigrations decreto as mentioned in the thread "changes for permatourists", and i have been wondering if it will be enforced or not.
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part 3 "ultima prorroga" stamp implications/questions).
"ultima prorroga":
1) what if this ultima prorroga, threat is not enforced at the borders, and deportation orders are never issued?
side story: (one year ago, a japanese friend of mine from the USA was told at bsas immigrations when she went to extend her tourist visa, that it was her last tourist visa, get legal or leave, we wont renew your tourist visa stamp again..... (her warning/threat was verbal and her stamp was just a normal tourist stamp, she never got this (perhaps new) "ultima prorogga stamp")...... anyways, she ignored the warning, left and came back and got a new tourist visa, no problem)
2) what happens in 90 days if she stays in the country, anyone have a story like: immigrations ran a batch database report on all of us ultima prorroga over stayers, and had a judge declare us all illegal or issue a deportation orders (i doubt this will happen, but i would like to keep track of what happens to the people who have previously gotten "ultima prorrogas"?
3) what if she leaves the country for 7 months, will they be nice and give her a new tourist visa when she returns, or will they say no, in the past you were suspicious, so no more tourist visas for ever/5yrs?
4) she is from the of the USA, and another thread mentioned it will likely take her over 90 days just to get a FBI police report that she would need to get another "immigrations sanctioned" temporary 1 year visa (i.e. rentista/student/work/etc....), if she stays here then when she tries to apply, from here, for an "immigrations sanctioned" temporary 1 year visa they will see that she has stayed over her "ultima prorroga", does this mean they will likely deny her?
(she will try to ask immigrations these "ultima prorroga" questions, and report back, but in argentina it seems a good idea to balance what i read in the law, with what 1 random immigrations employee says on 1 random day, with a collective consensus of what is actually happening on the street)
ayyyy!!! on a positive note, at least they gave her 90 days to try to legalize, instead of just deporting her on the spot.
