sure, but i've gotten 3 consults, and my girlfriend has had 2 consults, and every lawyer has a different gameplan for everything, and offers different things
😛
one lawyer said
RADEX is all me; another said you can sign a
Power of Attorney and they will do it all, but the initial appearance requires the person to go to
Migraciones (accompanied if in Buenos Aires where the lawyer is) regardless. but no...they all think different documents are needed, and basically all of them agree that
Migraciones make-up everything and
some people have to deposit money in an Argentine bank account (in Pesos? no one knows), and others don't. my girlfriend is a textbook Rentista rental-property owner but one lawyer will tell you that you
don't need a 1-year lease (despite Migraciones' site saying explicitly you do), one will say you need to make deposits to a local Pesos account, one says you just need to show pulling out $20 USD from a local ATM, etc.
basically, i haven't paid anyone because
none of them are certain of anything, except Rubilar
@Bajo_cero2 who is wayyyyy too certain (guarantees you'll get citizenship, yet some people on the old forum report that some of his clients are back-logged a few years with no hope in sight). most lawyers in Argentina i've noticed do
not react well to being asked
why certain things need to happen (i like to know why/how things happen, but this culture seems to interpret/project a sort of distrust into this mindset). the way my brain works, and for this documentation process for people in the future, i need to know
why and how some things work. i've offended at least 3 lawyers who essentially say 'if you can't trust me, find someone else' despite me asking very politely and being curious (i was a cop, and almost started a Law bachelor degree, and i'm also studying the history of Argentina which includes the legal system, etc.) - but there is some sort of culture that they don't want to put anything in writing, and want you to just 'trust' them (yet they will tell you not to trust anyone, and there are 20+ words/phrases for being scammed in Argentine Spanish).
i may have written ambiguously, but i've had several
consults with lawyers to see if there is any single common strategy (there is not; they are all completely convinced of different ideas about Rentista Savings) ... i have
not paid the $500 to $2000 USD to hire them to represent me. when i find one i'm impressed by, and think it will change any of this process, i will pay
🙂 i'm not convinced they do much for the process other than maybe bribe with their connections, and give you more peace of mind (or help with Spanish). i have just barely over 1 month left on my extended tourist visa, so
if anyone has one that they are currently happy with @Canada Goose etc., give me the info, please!
@Darksider415 great info, i will hustle today before close of 13:00 business (of course the gov't office is 8a-1p Mon-Fri, lol) and get this printed and paid at
Correo Argentino. it would be nice if the government wouldn't assume that this PDF was self-explanatory just because it has a
Correo logo on it (why pay at a Post Office? why not pay online, or at a bank, or at Migraciones?).
and, so that i can document all of this for the next people who try Residencies on their own, perhaps with less than my average Spanish, did you follow a specific guide or know a good write-up on all this stuff,
Darksider? for instance, the Cordoba Province police offer a "
Declaración Jurada" which i think is different than a
Domicilio, but it's all they would do for me. and i had to go to the substation with 2 witnesses; they don't come to your house to verify, you just swear it's your address. i didn't do the Express because i wanted to see if it was worth it when my girlfriend submits in a couple weeks. i will write all of this up when i'm successful, though some details will change no doubt. or i'll be in Paraguay in a month, since i don't want to risk my dog being illegal here. anyone have any insight to Paraguay, Chile, or Uruguay in May/Jun/Jul as my backup plan?