Your move to Argentina, arranged privately.

Most families arrive with a question they have carried for a while: could we live somewhere else, with room, good schools and a passport that travels well. The first conversation is one hour with Julieta Albornoz Gudiño. We ask who is moving, where you hold citizenship, income and assets today, how often you need to travel, and when you would like to be settled. We say plainly whether the program fits; when it does not, we say what does.

The Plan comes first, before anyone packs a box. It is a written document, presented in a meeting two to three weeks after a two-hour working session. It names a route for each member of the family, the date your Argentine tax residence would begin, the structure that will hold your business and investments, where you would live and which schools you would apply to, a calendar for the move, and a fixed quote for everything that follows. You decide with the whole picture in front of you.

Every route rests on the same papers: birth and marriage certificates, apostilled at home, and criminal-record certificates from your country of nationality and from any country where you lived a year or more in the last three, the latter issued within the last three months and apostilled as well. Translations are made in Argentina by a sworn public translator and legalized by the translators' association; translations made abroad are not accepted. Your name must read the same on every page. Where it does not, we correct the record before filing rather than after an observation.

Citizens of the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Israel, Brazil, Russia, the Emirates and Qatar enter Argentina as visitors without a visa, normally for ninety days. For them there is no consular step: the family arrives, and we open the residency file online, in RaDEX, from inside the country. Where a passport needs a visa, Migraciones issues an entry permit first and the consulate converts it into a residency visa before travel; when the file is complete, this usually adds weeks rather than months, and the Plan's calendar allows for it.

Ezeiza is forty-five minutes to an hour from Recoleta outside rush hour. Your manager is waiting in the arrivals hall with your name and a car. The interim apartment is ready: keys on the table, a stocked kitchen, local SIM cards for everyone, and a note with the week's appointments. The first day is for sleeping, and a walk.

Our relocation team shortlists homes before you land and walks them with you in the first week. Most families choose between the city and the northern suburbs, and the choice is also a school and an estate decision, as the stages below explain.

• Recoleta
  The city's classic address: Parisian apartment houses, embassies and Avenida Alvear.
• Palermo Chico and Barrio Parque
  The most exclusive enclave inside the city, low-rise and quiet around the parks and MALBA.
• Belgrano R
  Where city families with children settle: tree-lined streets, houses and low buildings, schools within minutes.
• Puerto Madero
  New towers with round-the-clock security and river views.
• Olivos, La Lucila, San Isidro
  The riverside suburbs where most English-speaking schools are found.
• Nordelta and Pilar
  A master-planned lake city thirty to forty kilometers north, and the country-club and polo belt around the Universidad Austral.
• Mendoza
  Chacras de Coria, the wine-country village under the Andes, dry and sunny.
• Patagonia and Córdoba
  Bariloche on the lakes, two hours by air; the Sierras Chicas suburbs of the country's second city.

Premium family rentals are quoted in US dollars, usually for twenty-four months, with one month's deposit; under the rules in force since the 2023 deregulation, term, currency and indexation are agreed freely. Landlords ask for a local guarantee, which a foreign family normally replaces with an insurer's surety bond, arranged by us. Foreigners may buy urban property without residency: a tax number, documented origin of funds and a notary are what is required, purchases are priced and paid in US dollars, and from reservation to deed usually takes four to six weeks.

Argentine schools run from late February to mid-December with a winter break in July, and the leading bilingual schools decide places the year before entry, so the move is planned around admissions. Lincoln, the American international school in La Lucila, keeps a northern-hemisphere calendar, which can let a US family arrive mid-year without losing a grade, subject to the school's admission. St. Andrew's Scots School, St. George's College, Northlands and Belgrano Day School are the long-established bilingual schools with IB programs; German and French families have the Colegio Goethe and the Lycée Jean Mermoz. Northlands has a campus in Nordelta. We have no commercial tie to any school: we prepare the applications, and you choose.

Health care for expatriate families is private. A prepaid plan from one of the main insurers, OSDE, Swiss Medical, Galeno or Medicus, gives direct access at the upper plan levels to private hospitals such as the Hospital Italiano, Hospital Alemán, Hospital Británico, Hospital Austral and Fleni, usually without referral. We arrange it before you arrive, with international cover to bridge the first weeks where the insurer asks for the DNI first. Public hospitals have charged non-permanent residents for anything but emergencies since 2025, which is why the plan comes first.

Each member of the family holds a residency of their own. Most of our families use the rentista route, for people who live on passive income from assets held abroad: rents, dividends, interest, pensions, royalties. Migraciones looks at the regularity of the income rather than at net worth. The legal floor is five Argentine minimum wages a month per adult applicant; we advise documenting about USD 1,500 to 2,000 a month per adult, because both the minimum wage and the exchange rate move during the process, and after approval the income must arrive each month in an Argentine bank account.

Other routes: a regular pension (pensionado); a work contract with an employer registered in RENURE; a company in Argentina; family reunification with an Argentine or with a resident; a degree program at a registered university; and, for Brazilians and other Mercosur nationals, nationality alone, with no income test. The provisional residence, the precaria, usually arrives within one to two weeks of filing and lets you live, work and study. The DNI usually follows within two to six months.

A foreign entrepreneur does not need citizenship or permanent residency to own a company here. The three vehicles are the SAS, the SRL and the SA; the choice turns on who will manage the company and the capital you intend to show, not on cost. With model bylaws an SAS is registered in Buenos Aires within about a day; an SA requires a majority of directors domiciled in Argentina. Your tax number, the CUIT, can be issued against your passport and your Migraciones file before the DNI arrives, and a representative can obtain it while you are still abroad, which is how a purchase or a shareholding is prepared before you land.

Banks may open accounts for foreigners whose residency is in process and for non-residents; each bank sets its own file, and our team prepares and presents it. Residents hold savings accounts in pesos and in US dollars at the same bank, and dollars wired from your own accounts abroad are credited in dollars. Since April 2025 resident individuals buy dollars at the official rate through their bank without a monthly cap. One rule remains for individuals at the time of writing: whoever buys dollars through the bank signs a statement not to trade dollar-settled securities for ninety days.

You become an Argentine tax resident when you obtain permanent residency, or after twelve months in the country on temporary permits; absences of up to ninety days a year do not stop the clock. The residency category and the month of arrival therefore decide which 31 December is the first one declared, and the Plan names that date before you move. From then on Argentina taxes worldwide income, at progressive rates of 5 to 35 percent and a flat 15 percent on gains from foreign securities, with a credit for income tax paid abroad; and worldwide net assets each year under the personal-assets tax, at rates of up to one percent on 2025 holdings, falling by law to a single 0.25 percent from 2027, above an inflation-indexed exemption and a higher one for the family home.

There is no federal inheritance tax. The Province of Buenos Aires levies one and the City of Buenos Aires does not, which gives the choice between the city and the northern suburbs an estate dimension. Argentina gives no step-up in cost on arrival and has no exit tax, so appreciated positions are reviewed before the move. Peso deposits and Argentine government bonds are exempt from both taxes for residents.

Argentina offers two doors today, and has announced a third. The children of a native-born Argentine hold a lifelong right to citizenship by option, with no age limit, no residency requirement and no renunciation; through a consulate it usually takes three to six months once the documents are ready, and it ends with the DNI and the passport. Every other adult may apply for naturalization after two years of continuous legal residence in any residency category; the digital nomad permit and tourist stays do not count. Under the current rules the two years are spent without leaving the country and the file goes to Migraciones; those who traveled go to the federal courts, where we have handled more than 650 citizenship files, appeals included, since 2019. Those rules are under review by the courts, and we plan each family's calendar around both outcomes rather than one.

In October 2026 the Government announced a citizenship-by-investment program. According to the announcement, the thresholds are a non-refundable contribution of USD 350,000 to the Treasury or the subscription of a USD 800,000 public bond, with additional amounts for a spouse and children and no prior residence required. No implementing resolution has been published, payment would not by itself secure approval, and the program rests on the same 2025 decree whose citizenship rules are now before the Supreme Court. Applications are expected to open before the end of the year; as soon as the program is open, it becomes one more route in this program, and we build no plan on it before then.

Argentina recognizes dual citizenship. On the Henley Passport Index of January 2026 the Argentine passport ranked 16th, with 169 destinations: the Schengen area, the United Kingdom and Japan without a visa, the United States still with one.

Then the ordinary year. The first renewal, the first tax return in June, a local driving license, the household staff registered, the dog's papers for the first trip home. A foreign license serves only while you are a visitor, and exchange without driving tests exists for a handful of countries (the medical check still applies), none of them the United States or the United Kingdom, so we book the medical check and the tests. For twelve months after your residency or citizenship is issued, the same manager answers the same number, with a note every week while anything is open. Most of what we do that year, you never see.