Working Visa

[CharlotteLucy]

I´ve moved over here from the UK, and I´m having trouble obtaining information about working visas here. No one seems to want to help me and when I ring up the embassy about it, they pass me from one person to the next and then to the next, until I reach another dead end, it´s driving me crazy! I have a job position more or less lined up, but obviously I need the papers before I can get any further.

Is there anyone from the UK who has gone through the work visa application system here??

I would be REALLY greatful for any information on how you went about this, or advice and tips tambien!

I´m going back to the UK in October for a month, so I guess I just go to the FCO? has anyone had an experience with this, is there anything I can do to speed up the process now?

How and were do I get my birth certificate authorised? where do I complete the paper work, any helplines that I can ring to dicuss it ect. How long the process took you más o menos. ect

Thank you!!

 

[steveinbsas]

Unfortunately, the British Embassy has nothing to do with getting a work visa in Argentina. That should explain why you didn't have any luck there.

If you have a job "lined up" your employer should be helping you with the process through the office of Argentine migraciones in Puerto Madero.

www.migraciones.gov.ar

Your prospective employer must initiate the paperwork with migraciones in order for you to get the visa. If they tell you that you need to get the visa on your own before they can offer you a job they are giving you incorrect information.

I'm confident that in the next few hours other Brits will provide the information you need about getting the Apostille for your birth certificate as well as information regarding other required documents.

 

[fifs2]

Hi Charlotte, don't despair if the embassy cannot help you as really the onus is upon your future employer in Argentina to file the necessary paperwork to provide you with a contract and enable you to be registered to and able to work here. As an expat employer in Bsas we have done this for a number of expat workers but I'm afraid I personally have done nothing about it myself and our HR guys handled it all. All I'd say is go push your future emplyer's HR dept for the info you need. Embassies these days seem to do little and less for expats except tell you how they arent able to help you.

Re apostille of your birth certificate you can do this via a number of companies offering this service such as: http://www.ukreplacementcertificate.co.uk/Order_a_Apostille_Stamp_21_certificate.php
I did this for my UK birth certificate and my son's US one and both times the service worked a treat..a tip from is is get at least 2 original copies of your bith certificate apostilled if you're serious about being here a while as you will inevitably need more thna one for the DNI, residency and work side of things.

Hope this helps a little.I'm sure local legal experts like bajo_cero etc can help more on the working tramites side of things.

 

[elclandestino]

Foreign Office neither Embassy got anything to do with AR immigration, mate

 

[Ashley]

The British embassy won't be able to help you. If you go onto the immigration website, what you need in order to apply for a work visa is all clearly outlined. But yes, most of it is up to your employer.
The things you'll need to provide are your passport + photocopy, apostilled birth certificate + photocopy, apostilled police record certificate from the UK and, if you're applying for your visa in Argentina, an argentine police record certificate and proof of your address here (rental contract, local police certificate, bill in your name). All of the UK stuff has to be translated by a "traductor publico" and then legalised at the Colegio de traductores. Remember that if you apply for your visa here, you mustn't return to the UK after your UK police certificate has been issued and before you've applied for the visa (lest you commit further crime!)...it invalidates the cert!
If I remember rightly, your company have to provide you with some paperwork too... They should be registered at immigration as a company that requires foreign personnel and they should provide you with an employment contract.
Your company should really be advising you re all this though or at least have assigned an immigration lawyer to the job.