When I came to Argentina, I was on a "tourist" visa, if you want to call it that. I entered as a tourist. I found a job about 3 weeks after being here, and that turned into a worker residency status (what many of you call a work visa). I knew people who later started working at the company I was at, who were in Argentina for a while, some of them for a couple of years even and got work residency status just like I did, no penalty or anything involved. Remember in Argentina there is NO SUCH THING is an "illegal immigrant", there is no immigration prison or penalty for being here with an "irregular immigration status" that's all it is and means nothing, it's not a crime or a misdemeanor or anything else, and even if you have "irregular immigration status" you don't have to leave, there is no law in existence that says you do!
