New Immigration Decree, Long Life To King Macri!

[ben]

I wasn't aware of that (having to use the Arg passport) so thanks for letting me know.
I was always under the impression that people with dual nationality could use either.

This always was - and I believe still is - true. Not sure if it applies specifically for non-residents, and I believe it's limited to 90 day visits - if your stay exceeds 90 days, you must leave on an Argentine passport.

When standing in line in Ezeiza at the DNM desk to get the papers for paying my overstay penalty, the couple in front of me, as far as I could gather, were trying to get they guy to allow them to leave the country with their Argentine-born daughter, despite having been here for over 90 days. And he wasn't giving in: she was Argentine, she'd been here over 90 days, she would only be allowed to leave on an Argentine passport - whether or not she had one.

***wanna is one of my pets hates also, along with 'my bad'.

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[gracielle]

I hold both ARG/US passports as well. But I routinely use my ARG passport when going thru ARG Immigration. I do so because my annual stay in BA exceeds the 180 day visa. And during the reciprocal fee era because it exempted me from paying it.

Except on one occasion about 6 years ago when my ARG passport expired while in SFO. To renew it in CA meant going to the ARG Consulate in LA with an overnight stay while they processed it. So upon re-entering at EZE, I showed the Immigration agent both passports. He asked why I had not renewed the ARG passport before embarking on the flight to the US. I replied that it was an emergency trip. Which I thought it was more diplomatic than saying the bureaucratic process of renewal at that time was archaic! He looked on his computer terminal, looked at stamps on my US passport and stamped the entry date on the expired ARG passport. I smiled and thanked him.

 

[EJLarson]

Its illegal to use other passport in arg if you have arg nationality.

Not true. It's the holder's choice.

 

[Silvie]

Its illegal to use other passport in arg if you have arg nationality.

I like to follow all laws as dictated by the govt here or anywhere. What pisses me off is despite being a obedient citizen, they try to single you out cos of yr skin color and let the criminals with a more popular skin color get away with all sorts of crime.

I don't think so. They could have been looking for somebody who looked like you for a specific reason.

 

[Bajo_cero2]

So, just to be clear, it is now no longer be sufficient to be granted citizenship if you:
- Stayed in the country for 2+ years
- Have not committed any crime during those periods

You must now also have residency of some kind?

Thanks in advance.

Judges are ignoring it.

 

[Bajo_cero2]

Not true. It's the holder's choice.

No.

 

[Bajo_cero2]

I don't have time to trawl through posts, so here's the question.
Assuming you're an expat, it would follow that you have another passport apart from your Argentine one, so why don't you enter and leave on the other one... Brit, French or US or whatever?
I don't profess to be an expert, but it seems to me that Argentines get harassed at customs much more than foreigners.
Is that polite enough?

Well, because it is the State that decided not you.

 

[Gringoboy]

Well, because it is the State that decided not you.

The state decided what exactly?

 

[Bajo_cero2]

It is a concept of international public law. Every country only recognize its citizenship in its territory. So, in Argentina you are argentine and in the US you are American but in any other country you decide.

 

[Ceviche]

Another famous lawyer of BA posted this today elsewhere :-

Deportations under new executive order 70/2017: We got our first deportation defense under the new policy and one would expect that the alien affected by the removal would be an immigrant who is a serious felon, drug dealer, organized criminal or ¨narco¨, but that’s wrong. It happens to be a young student who forgot to update his address and under the new executive order we ONLY have 3 days to set up a defense brief. This order displays an unconstitutional animus in many levels, especially the right to due process. The Argentine administration has significantly hardened the country policies with this Trump-like executive order, not only to aliens with criminal backgrounds as they originally stated, but to the entire immigrant population. The deportation order served today proves so.