It was never a serious requirement. I got the unconstitutionality of the DNU 70/2017 in 99% of my cases.
Based on what I've read in this thread, as an inhabitant (without temporary residency), you can get a precaria after applying for citizenship and the six month (or 183 day) requirement to stay in the country to be able to renew temporary residency does not apply.
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There is no such thing as 183 days or 6 months rule. You can request the extension/prorroga of existing temporary residence only if you have been physically precent 50% or more in Argentina for the period of the temporary residence. This is a slightly grayish legal area BUT you become resident on the day of your radicaccion (when the disposition of migraciones is issued), not the date of the precaria nor the day your DNI is issued (the DNI is optional actually). If your precaria was issued on 1 February, and your redicaccion was issued on 1 April and you had requested 1 year residence, your residency would expire on January 31 and you will be resident for 10 months so technically you have to be in Argentina for 5 months. So always count 50% based on the date of radiccacion on the dispo. from Migraciones. If you radicacion is for say 14 months then you'd have to be here for 7 months in that period. etc etc.
There are not rules. For an specific question you need a consultation with a lawyer.
The precaria is a no man's land. It's a provisional residency issued by Migraciones while your application for residence is being considered. The problem is that at some point the backlog and the time required to grant actual residencies became so long that there were people living in Argentina for years on a precaria. Technically, it was not counted as sufficient to trigger a "arraigo" for either citizenship or permanent residence. But some thought it did as it is not clearly defined legally. Macri's government decided to close this loophole and clearly defined the time spent under a precaria is not counting toward anything -- neither permanent residence nor citizenship. BUT Fernandez overturned this this year so this is now back to the old times. Open to legal interoperation. Bajo and others who work on this try to convince the courts that someone who has been here as a tourist or irregular for 2+ years has the right to access the carta de ciudadania and that any time spent under the precaria should count. Before the Macri decree was overturned not having a temp or permanent residence usually meant an automatic dismissal of the case. Now judges are more cautious and would review most cases BUT it would still be a long and tedious process without a DNI. I would guess 3-5 years. And you definitely need a lawyer to help if you have no residence and want the carta de ciudadania. Bajo would be a great choice, this is his specialty.
