Unión Civil Convivencial & Permanent Residency Requirements

[steveinbsas]

So effectively, what is the difference between temporary and permanent residency?

Temporary residency is granted one year at a time and the temporary resident must meet predermined requirements including whether they are a student enrolled in an approved institution, working for a company licenced to employ foreigners, living on passive income from foreign investments or a private or government pension. There a few other catagories but these are the most common, and the temporary resident must be in Argentina for at least 183 days of a "rolling" year.

If I understand correctly, the temporary residency must be in the same category and renewed/ reapplied for three consecutive years before the cambio de categoría to permanent residency.

Permanent residency can be applied for on the third renewal of the temporary residency. Until May 29th of this year a foreigner who 'married" another permanent resident or an Argentine citizen, or became the parent of an Argentine child was automatically elegible for permanent residency. Now migraciones only grants temporary residency for three years in these circumstances.

Prior to May 29th 2025, a permanent resident only had to set foot on Argentine soil once every two years. Now it's once every year

 

[steveinbsas]

I'm obviously not an expert, but I can't really see a reality in which they'd retroactively rescind your permanent residency that you got 10 years ago.

I don't have any inside information about this, just a hunch that any permanent resident who left the country before May 29th, 2025 may, by the "grace" of migraciones, end up having the two years minus one day (from the day they departed) to return to Argentina, even just to set foot on Argentine soil and then leave the country.

...and any permanent resident who left after May 29, will have just one year minus one day to do the same. So the permanent residents who have already been out of the country for more than one year will not lose their permanent residency and those rapidly approaching the one year mark will not have to panic...or spend time and money they may not have just to satisfy this new requirement.