Traveling with precaria after tourist visa overstay

[gringovenarg]

Once I got my documents together, very quick. Uploaded to radex, had my cita in person within a week. Then the same day, I got the precaria! Yes, I'm in CABA. No proof of income asked for whatsoever.

by far the hardest thing to get was the FBI background check. If you can do that stateside I highly recommend you do so. Nightmare to get it here.

 

[georgesayns]

Once I got my documents together, very quick. Uploaded to radex, had my cita in person within a week. Then the same day, I got the precaria! Yes, I'm in CABA. No proof of income asked for whatsoever.

Ok, thanks for the info!

by far the hardest thing to get was the FBI background check. If you can do that stateside I highly recommend you do so. Nightmare to get it here.

Just curious about this.
I'm French, and in France you can get your criminal record online (provided it's empty), the whole thing takes 10 minutes. It is as original as any such document might get, since asking for a physical copy will just result in one getting the very same document, except printed out. And it is, of course, signed by the department of justice.
Is this not the case in the US?
Or did you go and get the background check because they asked specifically for it, as opposed to a certificate of an empty criminal record?
The official website says this:

"Certificado que acredite fehacientemente que no registra condenas anteriores ni procesos penales en trámite, emitido por las autoridades competentes de los países donde haya residido por un plazo superior a UN (1) año, durante el transcurso de los últimos TRES (3) años (solo exigible a mayores de 16 años)."


Now the document I have makes no mention of underway proceedings, but I'm not even sure there is such a certificate in France.

Does your FBI background check include this information?

 

[georgesayns]

I'm asking because it just seems too good (that is, too easy) to be true.

Anyhow, congratulations on your wedding and precaria!

 

[Alby]

It seems to one of the easiest residency categories. Go for it. The hard part will be staying married long enough to make it through the three-year period toward permanent residency.

 

[optcsa]

Thank you for your response, and sorry for hijacking your post but I’m curious - Did you use a lawyer? What did migraciones say about your over stay? I was considering going through a lawyer as I don’t have much Spanish yet but it would be great to go without one as he’s quoting $5,000+ to regularise. Others have said I need to leave the country first!

I’m a lawyer. I don’t charge $5,000 either… you really don’t need a lawyer for a case like this…

 

[optcsa]

Good afternoon
I'm currently looking into ways of becoming a resident, and one of them would be marriage with my argentinian girlfriend. (I'm going to try and get a student residency first, but based on the info I have I'm not too sure it'll work)

I unfortunately don't have any answers other than what common sense dictates (which it seems has no particular bearing on the mess that is argentine migraciones at the moment), but I do have a couple of questions, if you don't mind.

First, how quick would you say was the marriage procedure once you had all documents (duly legalized, of course).
Second, it seems you received your precaria rather quickly, was this in CABA or in a province?
Third (this is the one that concerns me the most and I recently made a thread about it), did they ask for proof of means, income (passive or otherwise), net worth etc.? If so, how thorough would you say they were in examining this aspect of your case?

If you get married and have the marriage certificate (legalized and translated if it’s from overseas) and the criminal report from overseas (legalized and translated). It’s very easy to file. I always suggest doing the “urgent” filing. If you bring everything to the interview you leave with a precaria or worst case scenario you get in 2/3 days online.

 

[gringovenarg]

Ok, thanks for the info!


Just curious about this.
I'm French, and in France you can get your criminal record online (provided it's empty), the whole thing takes 10 minutes. It is as original as any such document might get, since asking for a physical copy will just result in one getting the very same document, except printed out. And it is, of course, signed by the department of justice.
Is this not the case in the US?
Or did you go and get the background check because they asked specifically for it, as opposed to a certificate of an empty criminal record?
The official website says this:

"Certificado que acredite fehacientemente que no registra condenas anteriores ni procesos penales en trámite, emitido por las autoridades competentes de los países donde haya residido por un plazo superior a UN (1) año, durante el transcurso de los últimos TRES (3) años (solo exigible a mayores de 16 años)."


Now the document I have makes no mention of underway proceedings, but I'm not even sure there is such a certificate in France.

Does your FBI background check include this information?

Ya in the US you can get it electronically too but you have to pay a 3rd party service for this and this service is only available in the country. If you're out of the country, there's no way to send them your finger prints electronically which is a requirement of the process, so you literally have to print them on a card and physically mail them with a money order. Wild. You also have to get it apostilled which is its own separate process. As you can imagine, a lot can go wrong during this so that's why it took so long for me.