Tourist visa renewal and renewal and renewal....

[NickJ]

Sorry to bump this old thread.

I'm UK currently in Buenos Aires, and have overstayed my tourist visa - by the end of the month i will have been here 6 months on a 90-day visa. I didn't pay to extend my visa. Previous to this, I spent 3 months here from Jan-Mar, left and went to Brazil for two weeks, spent Apr-June here, then did a trip to colonia.

Reading this (and other) threads, there seems to be a disagreement what's the best move: just stay illegally, or go to colonia, pay the 50 peso fine, and hope I can re-enter the same/next day. Have any other members had recent experiences?

Being denied entry would be pretty terrible - I'm living with my long-term porteña girlfriend here, we have an apartment and our lives settled here. We're planning to stay here for all of 2009.

 

[cujodu]

UPDATE: I did go to the immigration office on antartida and they gave me the visa renewal with no questions asked... well, she asked if I was married, but I'm not sure that was an official question ;-)

I'm going ahead with getting a work visa now hopefully that will be done by the time the tourist visa comes up for renewal.

Thanks to everyone for their replies!!

 

[Worldcitizen]

Are you working in Argentina? If so, you could apply for a resident VISA extra mercosur. You only need a work contract from a Company in Argentina. Take a look to the below link which could give you some other insights:
http://www.migraciones.gov.ar/pagina4/espanol/radicacion/rad_extramercosur.htm
Good luck!

 

[steveinbsas]

Are you working in Argentina? If so, you could apply for a resident VISA extra mercosur. You only need a work contract from a Company in Argentina. Take a look to the below link which could give you some other insights:
http://www.migraciones.gov.ar/pagina4/espanol/radicacion/rad_extramercosur.htm
Good luck!

It isn't so easy to get a "work contract" from a company in Argentina because it isn't so easy to get job here. Anyone who is working here legally already would have been required to get a "resident Visa extra mercosur (which entails a lot of paperwork that is closely scrutinized by migraciones).

This thread concerns tourists wanting to legally extend their stay in Argentina. That's all. There are other threads about resident visas: work, student, rentista, etc.

 

[cujodu]

I posted this originally Steve and I don't see a problem with expanding the topic to include other issues regarding overstaying visas etc though probably in the best interest to search other topics if you want a clear answer Worldcitizen. I don't think any of these threads are hardcore-stick-to-the-topic posts.

 

[soulskier]

Cuju, was the girl who asked you if you were married hot?

 

[cujodu]

Cuju, was the girl who asked you if you were married hot?

Uh, she wasn't completely unfortunate looking.

 

[Napoleon]

If anyone's going over to Uruguay anytime soon, could you pick up a couple of bags of DOVE DARK CHOCOLATES for me?

I have a "Y" chomosome, but I also have an insatiable appetite for dark chocolate and the chocolate in this country basically sucks unless you're buying some overpriced stuff out of Bariloche.

Thanks.

 

[soulskier]

The overpriced stuff in Bariloche es vale la pena.

 

[Napoleon]

The overpriced stuff in Bariloche es vale la pena.

OK, mi castellano kind of blows. What does "vale la pena" mean?

[edit]

Is it something like "It's worth the price."? "It's worth the suffering to pay for it..."? Something like that? Mas o menos? (I know that it's "mas o menos", because EVERYTHING in this country is "mas o menos".)