Overstay Visa Fine Payment

[artisan0559]

I am new to this forum and wanted to know if anyone here is aware of the new rules on paying the fines for overstaying your Visa. You can no longer pay your fine at Buquebus Terminal (immigrations). If this is news, let me know and I will post my experience yesterday (3 Aug)

Best Wishes to you all.

 

[Mano Negra]

News to me, please let us know the details.

 

[Commodorius]

I don't know if anything has changed, but I paid no problem in EZE when leaving on the 18th of July. Came back through this morning with no issues.

 

[sinagua980]

News to me.

 

[NickBA]

I don't know if anything has changed, but I paid no problem in EZE when leaving on the 18th of July. Came back through this morning with no issues.

Was this your first overstay?

 

[Commodorius]

Was this your first overstay?

Yeah

 

[artisan0559]

Short story, I am Australian , currently living here with my Argentine partner, I had overstayed my visa due to our car breaking down on the freeway to catch the BQB boat at Easter (last day of visa last seat on boat!) so we booked tickets on the 30th July through a Buquebus agency for Saturday the 3rd August 8:45am to travel to Uruguay, we arrived to the Buquebus terminal very early allowing time for the trouble of the Visa (I was also overdue my Reciprocidad fee of $100USD) Buquebus "check in" held our tickets and told us to check with Migraciones upstairs, after much fuss, Migraciones were happy to let us go through but on taking us back down to BQB, they said we would need to go to Migraciones (near BQB) we ran there and they are of course are not open on Saturday......back to Buquebus and they said we would need to go to Migraciones (Terminal de omnibus en Retiro) and they would change our tickets for the later boat. After a broken down Taxi we were able to pay the fine of 300 pesos but could not pay the yearly Tasa De Reciprocidad (Yearly fee $100USD for USA Canada Australian). We changed our tickets for the Sunday (4th) so that Saturday afternoon we went online and paid the Reciprocidad fee and printed the receipt to take with us through Migraciones. Sunday morning we went through customs after 5 people trying to sort out the problem of the computer not reading a number on the paperwork............apparently this has just changed on the 1st of August and I think we were the first test dummies to sort their internal problems.

Note: Make sure you take your Reciprocidad receipt of payment with you for the return back through customs in Uruguay.

This is just our experience so maybe one of the administrators might wish to look up the ruling and post it?

Good luck!

 

[citygirl]

I *think* the OP is saying that one can no longer pay the overstay fee specifically at Boquebus, not that there's been a change in policy. That seems odd to me since it is a point for int'l departures. What do they do with people that have overstayed? Send them to migraciones?

 

[artisan0559]

What we were told at Retiro was that you can no longer pay the penalty at points of transit, (obviously with the exception of Retiro). It appears if you want to pay cash you have to do it through Retiro or Banco Nación, you can also do it online by credit card through Migraciones website.

http://www.migraciones.gov.ar/accesible/?noticia=1946

 

[irina]

Here's a pic of the new regulations posted at the colonia express terminal, thought maybe it'll be helpful for this in need of the new info! Since it's pretty succinct..