Argentina
ARGENTINA - Police Clearances Require Change in Process and Additional Passport Photos
January 31, 2012 - As a result of the Registro Nacional de Reincidencia going on strike, foreign nationals must now obtain their police clearance background checks through the Policia Federal Argentina (PFA). Though most of the requirement...
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ARGENTINA - Travel to Mercosur Nations Will Require Passport or National Identity Card by March 2012
November 28, 2011 - Beginning March 16, 2012, Mercosur regulations will require travelers to provide either a national identity card or a passport to travel to countries of the Mercosur. Mercosur as the "Common Market of the South," is the larg...
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ARGENTINA - Local Salary Payments Mandatory for Intracompany Transfer Visas
March 23, 2011 - Effective immediately, intracompany transfer visas (Article 23 e) will require that a portion of the employee’s salary be paid in Argentina.
The employee will either have to secure a local CUIT (tax identification number) as an ind...
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ARGENTINA - Fines to Be Levied for Housing and Hiring Illegal Immigrants
December 23, 2010 - Effective immediately, the Argentine immigration office (“Dirección Nacional de Migraciones”) will begin fining employers who provide jobs and landlords who provide housing to illegal immigrants.
The fines for housing illegal imm...
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ARGENTINA - New Decree Requires RENURE for Filing 15-Day Professional Work Permits
July 7, 2010 - Earlier this week, the Argentine authorities published new decrees requiring companies to include a copy of their official immigration corporate sponsorship inscription (RENURE) when filing for Visas Art 29 (e), also known as 15-day pr...
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ARGENTINA - New Regulations Coming to Effect on July 6, 2010
May 25, 2010 – The Argentine National Immigration Agency will officially implement new immigration regulations established under Decree 616/2010. This decree provides additional legislation that will deliver additional benefits to the refugee class a...
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ARGENTINA - New “Entry Request Fee” for Certain Foreign Nationals
December 30, 2009 - The Argentine Ministry of Interior has recently implemented a new Entry Request Fee for citizens of 22 countries that charge visa fees to Argentineans (e.g., Australia, Canada and the United States). This is a “reciprocal fee” equ...
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ARGENTINA - New National Identity Card Announced
November 13, 2009 - This is an update to BAL’s November 4th alert regarding the Argentine Government’s issuance of new national identity documents (Documento Nacional Identidad or “DNI”) to all Argentinean citizens and to all foreign nationals workin...
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ARGENTINA - New Collective Bargaining and Residential Address Requirements for Labor Contracts
November 12, 2009 - According to a recent directive by the Argentine Immigration Bureau (“Dirección Nacional de Migraciones or “DNM”), as of November 1, 2009, all Argentine companies hiring foreign nationals who apply at Argentine consular posts for ...
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ARGENTINA - New Format Guidelines for National Identity Card
November 04, 2009 - In late October, the Argentina government announced that DNI cards (Argentina’s national identity document) will be issued in a new, more secure format beginning in February 2010. These new DNI cards will have 30 digital security ...
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