Migraciones Appointment - Can I Bring Translation Help?

[srtamollygreen]

DNI is in hand now!
A colleague at my office has a friend at Migraciones that was keeping an eye on the progress for me and contacted her to come get it when it was finished, which saved me the trouble of having to be present when Correo Argentino would try to deliver it.

Now to proceed with the remainder of my residency process...

Congratulations!!! That means mine should come this week, since yours was "resuelto" just 2 days before mine. At least I hope. Haha.
What is the rest of your residency process? Aren't you done for now? With the exception of opening bank accounts and getting an official CUIT or CUIL perhaps?

Again, congratulations! That's awesome

 

[BlueArrow]

Congratulations!!! That means mine should come this week, since yours was "resuelto" just 2 days before mine. At least I hope. Haha.
What is the rest of your residency process? Aren't you done for now? With the exception of opening bank accounts and getting an official CUIT or CUIL perhaps?

Again, congratulations! That's awesome

I'm going for a 2 year work residency. Having already started the process (back in March) I was able to use my employment contract to get a temporary CUIL from ANSES and open a bank account, and now with my DNI I have a permanent CUIL. I need to have my temp CUIL combined with my permanent CUIL and I'll be going back to ANSES this week to get that done. Then, finally, back to Migraciones to finish the residency process. The wrinkle with Migraciones is that I was supposed to go back with my DNI within 30 days of my last appointment, but the DNI never showed up so I am well past that window. Lawyer is looking into next steps for that.

A lot of this is off the beaten path as far as getting residency here - at least, it seems to be less common than what a lot of people go through. Having a contract with a company here to work seems to be the real differentiator;
I had a bank account before I had a DNI - a temporary CUIL allowed that.
I have been able to transfer money back to the US without having yet had a DNI. The temporary CUIL allowed that too. Even the bank manager was like "bear with us, we are reading the manual as we do this, we've never done it before."

I'd like to point out that except for one miserable person at Migraciones who sent us on a wild goose chase for no reason (didn't like my face, or that I didn't speak Spanish I suppose) every single person we have encountered has been friendly and helpful, including several people at Migraciones, ANSES, and my bank. And as far as that one miserable person, I've encountered the same thing back in the US renewing a drivers license or dealing with the county on issues. The process itself is rather byzantine, but I've heard the same thing (and even worse) from friends of mine who navigated similar things in the US.

 

[maimara]

The wrinkle with Migraciones is that I was supposed to go back with my DNI within 30 days of my last appointment, but the DNI never showed up so I am well past that window. Lawyer is looking into next steps for that.

@BlueArrow let us know how finishing the residency process goes - I missed my 30 days of the initial appoitment to go back with AFIP thing - still confused what I am supposed to bring with me then. I missed my 30 days mainly because of being overly exited how smoothly the process went and secondly, neither I nor any of locals/anyone at my coming work place could understand what it said in that papelito..

Thank you and suerte with the remaining steps! I am still at "su trámite está para supervisar" stage, even though started the process already in March. One day.

 

[BlueArrow]

@BlueArrow let us know how finishing the residency process goes - I missed my 30 days of the initial appoitment to go back with AFIP thing - still confused what I am supposed to bring with me then. I missed my 30 days mainly because of being overly exited how smoothly the process went and secondly, neither I nor any of locals/anyone at my coming work place could understand what it said in that papelito..

Thank you and suerte with the remaining steps! I am still at "su trámite está para supervisar" stage, even though started the process already in March. One day.

How long has yours been in the [background=rgb(252, 252, 252)]"su trámite está para supervisar" stage? If it has been a very long time it might be worth going down to Migraciones to see what the problem is. Bring all the paperwork you have with you. My friend-of-a-friend "inside contact" at Migraciones was able to let us know there was a problem, but we had to get in line and talk to someone to find out what that problem was. In my case, they needed to see a copy of my work contract (which we had brought with us on the initial visit, not sure why it didn't get the stamp that they gave it when we went back). We did have to stand in a few lines and got a bit of a runaround but eventually got done what we needed which allowed the process to move forward. [/background]

[background=rgb(252, 252, 252)]I will post a summary of steps that occurred when all is said and done.[/background]

 

[Somewhereinba]

Well, it's been a month and a half and still no DNI. Now I'm waiting in various lines at Migraciones so I can be told I'm in the wrong line and need to go to another. Rinse, repeat.
All part of the experience, I'm told.

How long did you end up waiting?

Mine still says Su trámite se encuentra en etapa de supervisión. Consulte nuevamente en los próximos días.-

 

[Mustbeabetterway]

To the BlueArrow that started this Topic chain, I'm brand new to this site and started a Topic, "Need Assist in BA". I'm coming down in the next few months. You mentioned that you are not fluent in Spanish and that you got a temporary CUIL, before your DNI. When I come down, I don't want to walk around with cash and don't want to run up ATM charges on withdrawals, so I would like to open a local bank account. I've tried telephoning banks in Argentina to find out what I need to open an account, but it has been difficult to get telephone numbers that international calls will go through and if the call does go through, there are no English speaking representatives or I have called the wrong department in the bank. When I do get to BA, I will have a slight language barrier and probably not the proper required documentation. Did you use a local translator and I'd like to try to solve these problems before I arrive in BA? Thanks for any assistance.

 

[BlueArrow]

@BlueArrow let us know how finishing the residency process goes - I missed my 30 days of the initial appoitment to go back with AFIP thing - still confused what I am supposed to bring with me then. I missed my 30 days mainly because of being overly exited how smoothly the process went and secondly, neither I nor any of locals/anyone at my coming work place could understand what it said in that papelito..

Thank you and suerte with the remaining steps! I am still at "su trámite está para supervisar" stage, even though started the process already in March. One day.

I finally got back to Migraciones for my post-DNI follow up visit - and they told me there was nothing else to do, I was finished. I have my precaria, my CUIL, I am registered with AFIP and I have a DNI, that's it. *shrugs*

When I got my Precaria there about 2 months ago they were very clear to my lawyer and I that after I got my DNI and within 30 days I was supposed to return to window 6 in building 6 at Migraciones to "finish the process", so going back and hearing there is nothing else was very confusing. Upon going back this time I talked to two different reps and they both told me "you're done, there is nothing else, just renew your DNI in a year." So I called my lawyer, relayed what they told me and he said "hold on, that's not right, I'll be right there." So he came down, talked with a couple more people, and they all insisted I was finished with the process. I had been trying to get a 2 year work residency, I believe my Residencia Definitiva or something like that, but everyone at Migraciones insisted I have everything I need to be here indefinitely as long as I keep renewing my DNI.

So, "tada?"

 

[BlueArrow]

To the BlueArrow that started this Topic chain, I'm brand new to this site and started a Topic, "Need Assist in BA". I'm coming down in the next few months. You mentioned that you are not fluent in Spanish and that you got a temporary CUIL, before your DNI. When I come down, I don't want to walk around with cash and don't want to run up ATM charges on withdrawals, so I would like to open a local bank account. I've tried telephoning banks in Argentina to find out what I need to open an account, but it has been difficult to get telephone numbers that international calls will go through and if the call does go through, there are no English speaking representatives or I have called the wrong department in the bank. When I do get to BA, I will have a slight language barrier and probably not the proper required documentation. Did you use a local translator and I'd like to try to solve these problems before I arrive in BA? Thanks for any assistance.

I'm lucky in that I had an HR rep from my job here to help me navigate the language issues, and the lawyer that my company retains gave us direction when it came to immigration and bank items. There are translators and immigration specialists that can help you, I see tons of translators offering services on Craigslist. If you need an official document translator that is able to officially stamp/seal translations for Migraciones, I can refer you to the guy I used.

 

[BlueArrow]

How long did you end up waiting?

Mine still says Su trámite se encuentra en etapa de supervisión. Consulte nuevamente en los próximos días.-

After waiting about a month, someone at work called her friend who works there who was able to look it up in the system, and that friend advised us that we needed to go back to Migraciones because "there was a problem." For some reason, I needed to show my job contract again, then there was tapping on a keyboard, and it was "unstuck" in the system. About a week after that, the same friend-of-a-friend called to say it was ready, and I had it picked up rather than mailed to me.

I'm fortunate to have had that inside connection because she alerted me to the fact there was a problem as well as saved me the hassle of having to deal with the mail system here (needing to be present with your DNI receipt and passport when the postman delivers it to your address). I started the process in March and had my DNI in hand just over 2 months later.

 

[Somewhereinba]

After waiting about a month, someone at work called her friend who works there who was able to look it up in the system, and that friend advised us that we needed to go back to Migraciones because "there was a problem." For some reason, I needed to show my job contract again, then there was tapping on a keyboard, and it was "unstuck" in the system. About a week after that, the same friend-of-a-friend called to say it was ready, and I had it picked up rather than mailed to me.

I'm fortunate to have had that inside connection because she alerted me to the fact there was a problem as well as saved me the hassle of having to deal with the mail system here (needing to be present with your DNI receipt and passport when the postman delivers it to your address). I started the process in March and had my DNI in hand just over 2 months later.

OK - maybe mine is just due to the usual slow Argentine bureaucracy. I'll fire off an email - they usually respond within 2 weeks !!