As has been ably noted by Taos @ The Argentine Post and Dave @ Discover Buenos Aires, visa application and renewal fees for foreigners have gone up. Way up. Like heap lots of up. Renewing an expired 90-day tourist visa has one from 50 to 300 pesos, renewing a temporary residency now costs 600 pesos for non-Mercosur types, and it'll set you back 1,000 mangos to change a tourist visa to the work variety.
We've been a bit out of the loop on this since Henry was born in Buenos Aires (thus giving us automatic permanent residency as Parents of an Argentine and also explaining why his full name is Henry Residencia Mount). Curiously, someone recently someone asked me what to do about an about-to-expire visa and I said don't worry, no pasa nada, it's only 50 pesos to renew an expired one at Ezeiza. The next time I saw said person he was a bit, er miffed. Sorry.
Finally, as someone recently remarked to us, this price hike makes the visa-by-child option more attractive: it may actually be less expensive to have a baby that to extend a tourist visa over a year.
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And, if true, the rumor is now flying around that part of the whole change - "non-Mercosur types" who are here on either rentista or jubilado visas will no longer be allowed to make them permanent, but will be stuck with annual temporary renewals indefinitely - and no grandfathering in of those of us who just spend (like hmm, me) 3-4 years renewing planning on a permanent.
" it may actually be less expensive to have a baby that to extend a tourist visa"
HEY! I resemble that remark.
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