Work Visa- police clearance disaster

[davonz]

If you left the country you were living in for even just one day, that year starts again. When i applied for a rentista visa, even though i had lived in a couple of countries in the past 5 years period, i was in an out all the time, so only submitted my NZ police report and they were fine with that.

But just dont say you lived anywhere else for more than a year.

 

[Cordobese]

I am American and currently live in the US. My career is international in nature and I have recently been offered a post in Buenos Aires to start in 1 month.

However, I have only recently become aware of Argentina's strict (to say the least) rule of the job-seeker submitting police clearances from EVERY COUNTRY they have lived in within the past 5 years.

I have lived in a total of 4 countries in the past 5 years due to my job. The bureaucratic hoops I would have to jump through in order to attain police clearances from each of these countries are momentous and time-consuming.

One of the countries told me I would have to FLY THERE to pick it up in person, another country told me it would take about 3 months.

Mind you, my start date for the job is at the end of July.

I was wondering how strict the Argentine government actually is about this.
For a work visa, I need to submit my passport, which has all the countries I have lived in in it. However, what if I submitted a NEW passport and a police clearance only from the USA, implying I have never traveled before, hence, never lived anywhere else?

Would Argentina have any way of knowing the difference? Do they have the capacity to search on American passports to get their background history? I know the US would be able to do this search on American passports, but can Argentina do it on American passports?

What I'm asking is- how anal are they??

At this point, if they are as anal as they seem to be- it may cost me my next job as it seems that my prospective new place of employment does not want me to come over on a tourist visa to begin work. They also want to follow the rules exactly.

Any advice would be very much appreciated. Also feel free to write me at [email protected]

Thanks so much

I am curious if you simply said you only lived in one country for the past 5 years, if they would notice. You could probably get replacement passport for a ´lost´passport so it wouldn´t show any history.

 

[GS_Dirtboy]

Unless your company has a streamlined process of acquiring the background check and getting it apostilled, the chances of it coming back, making the appointment with immigration, and gathering all other documents needed by the end of the month seem very slim. But I hope it works out for you.

I just went through this process. The FBI check took/takes 8 weeks. THEN I drove to DC to get it apostiled so I could drive back in time to catch my plane.

I wouldn't tell them you "lived" anywhere else.