update for the renewal of 90-day
Precarias online, on
https://www.migraciones.gov.ar/accesible/consultaTramitePrecaria/ConsultaUnificada.php you will have the option to upload a PDF with the new button, around 15 days out of the expiration of your
Precaria which goes to
once at the upload/
subir page, there is the option to add up to 3 PDF files. i struggled with helping someone this week, uploading proof of funds from USA to Argentina (BNA), where the PDF upload kept failing with a red error message "unable to upload PDF" on multiple browsers, operating systems, phone, laptop, etc. so i tried everything to limit what could be the issue. i personally successfully uploaded a 2.2 MB file for my process, with only
one page so i wondered why this other person was having issues (and on my side, i got the exact same error message with their same files).
after trying to shrink the PDF, delete pages, change the title without spaces, etc. - all the usual things when software is garbage, i finally succeeded in getting the successfully-uploaded message, and now they are "
WEB PENDIENTE" which means their attachment is being reviewed. this is what i did:
1. take screenshots (.jpg on my windows laptop) of each page of their PDF that was failing (quality goes down).
2. drag screenshots (7 in this case) into a Word document, and drag corners to size as best as possible.
3. use Print to PDF and i saved with a one-word (6 letters) PDF file, 7 total pages, size 1.25 MB, and suddenly it worked!
now their Expediente page shows the correct
Web Pendiente as the status, and there is no more upload button "
Presente Documentacion"
i have no idea which aspect of the file needed to be changed, but for those struggling to upload PDFs to renew their
Precaria or respond to an
Intimacion requirement, if your PDF isn't working, this weird way of making a new PDF packet was successful on
29Aug2024. and of note, always hilarious, this person's
Precaria expires in less than a week and despite renewing it at the 15-day mark beforehand, they still don't have a new
Precaria ... and chatting with
Migraciones in Buenos Aires resulted in them being told if they are past the
Precaria date, worries of being "illegal" in the country aren't a big deal, because technically they will be "IRREGULAR" 🤣 i suppose that was supposed to be comforting?
as i'm looking to buy a small property in Mendoza, i have yet to meet an Argentine who has any clue about any of this, most realtors, owners, notaries/
escribanos, etc. all are surprised to hear that USA folks aren't just granted immediate Residency. i've explained how living 90 days at a time with
Precarias, some people on this forum have done it for over a year i've heard, and locals here almost can't believe it. my current realtor said that because i'm investing in property i will have an easier time...i let him know that is NOT the case, i wish it was, but actually the hoop-jumping of having to show a ridiculous 5x-salary income of money (converted in Pesos) actually dissuades many people from coming here and spending money, creating businesses, renovating real estate, etc.
i've tried explaining to people that normal wealthy or middle-class folks from other countries just don't have the time, patience, or flexibility to do all this crazy stuff, and most people would never buy a property in a country where they can only be there for 3-6 months legally on a tourist visa (and tourist visas aren't guaranteed, technically). imagine owning a property and not being able to enter the country it's in, because you don't have residency to get in. in my life, i'm very much flexible and can plan 90 days at a time, but i guarantee 95% of people would be worried about investing in Argentina when the Residency process is so strange (yet Venezuelans/MerCoSur folks can just come here and most of the time have no issues). my biggest takeaway from my past 9 months in Argentina is that this country has so much potential to be a haven for people like me, but the Immigrations policies and red-tape world are bottle-necking a ton of money and talent coming here. once this changes, i think it will be a game-changer for the country. Milei needs to fire every leader in
Migraciones and replace the chief with someone like
@earlyretirement or @BowTiedMara or someone else here who has done the process and knows from the inside where the failures occur at
🙂
one person said "
Tramite" is the national sport for Argentina, ahahahahaha, i told him this country for sure would get the Gold Medal at the Olympics for
Tramite hoop-jumping