Physical DNI troubles

[Carstenlundgren]

Goodmorning Folks,

Upon doing a Búsqueda de trámite, Migraciones indicates that I have went through all the steps of my temporary residency checklist. Thus, on the fifth of August, the last box to be checked, is 05/08/2026ISPOSICIÓN DE RESIDENCIA PROTOCOLIZADA.

Now, I seem to be in a period of waiting for my physical DNI but I am under the impression that it does not take more than a few months to arrive. I have gone down to the Renapper offices in San Telmo a few times and I was notified that I do have a DNI number. They gave me a pen and I wrote my number for them to some day call me on an unknown number.

This did not manifest, at least not yet (weeks later). Recently, I checked the Renapper website where they allow you to see the process of your DNI. There it says that "El ejemplar vigente para el documento ingresado es: A, con fecha de emisión el 25/08/2026". At the moment, I am not sure who to go to or what to do. I believe to have read somewhere on this forum that people were able to go in same day to get their DNI.

All this said, I did move at the end of August but when speaking to the people at the offices, that seems to not have been an issue given that they seem not to have printed the card yet.

Can anyone offer some clarity on this issue?

Thanks ahead of time!

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[Ries]

Goodmorning Folks,

Upon doing a Búsqueda de trámite, Migraciones indicates that I have went through all the steps of my temporary residency checklist. Thus, on the fifth of August, the last box to be checked, is 05/08/2026ISPOSICIÓN DE RESIDENCIA PROTOCOLIZADA.

Now, I seem to be in a period of waiting for my physical DNI but I am under the impression that it does not take more than a few months to arrive. I have gone down to the Renapper offices in San Telmo a few times and I was notified that I do have a DNI number. They gave me a pen and I wrote my number for them to some day call me on an unknown number.

This did not manifest, at least not yet (weeks later). Recently, I checked the Renapper website where they allow you to see the process of your DNI. There it says that "El ejemplar vigente para el documento ingresado es: A, con fecha de emisión el 25/08/2026". At the moment, I am not sure who to go to or what to do. I believe to have read somewhere on this forum that people were able to go in same day to get their DNI.

All this said, I did move at the end of August but when speaking to the people at the offices, that seems to not have been an issue given that they seem not to have printed the card yet.

Can anyone offer some clarity on this issue?

Thanks ahead of time!

​

this is how it works here. Its not Europe or North America.
It takes as long as it takes.
In the process of my adventures with migraciones, I have been issued 4 individual DNI cards. 3 temporary one year cards, and finally a permanent one.
Each card took between 3 and 6 months to actually be produced.
Believe it or not, things are much better, more efficient, and transparent now, than when I first started dealing with the government here in 2007.
Particularly since Covid, much more is online, much fewer obscure napoleonic era writing in pen in giant leather bound books, almost no rubber stamps, and fewer lines and waits and mysteries.

But Argentina is Argentina, and it will always move at its own pace, in mysterious ways.

 

[Macanudo]

Try applying for a change of address new DNI because you will need to do it anyway if your DNI doesn’t have your true address.
A change of address on a foreign resident’s Argentine DNI is processed by RENAPER as a new copy (nuevo ejemplar). Book through the Mi Argentina app at a RENAPER Documentation Center, or apply at a local civil registry; the fee is ARS 20,000, and the residence process is not involved unless the residency itself is changing.