Argentina Digital Nomad Visa

Argentina publishes no income threshold for this route, and that is a gap read on the page rather than an unchecked one. The official service page does not mention dollars, pesos, salary, monthly income or minimum income, and prints no currency symbol.

None of the figures on the page is an amount of money:

180 is the number of days of residence; 25,871 and 20,305 are the numbers of the Migration Act and of the Act on sworn translators; 616 is the implementing decree; 758 is the resolution that created the route; 2010, 2015 and 2022 are years of enactment; and 4.0 is the number of a content licence.

In place of a figure, the authority sets a test of the nature of the activity:

The applicant evidences what they do through contracts, a letter of support from a company or a certificate of demand for their work, together with certificates or receipts of income and fees, and must supply at least one professional reference tied to their field.

The practical consequence: there is no monetary figure to set beside other digital nomad routes for comparison, and sufficiency is judged by the case officer on the file rather than against a fixed threshold.

What is granted is transitional residence — residencia transitoria — and naming the class correctly is the most important thing in this cell, because almost everything else follows from the class rather than from the programme.

Migration Act 25,871 establishes distinct classes of residence, and the digital nomad route sits in Article 24(h), the transitional class, not the temporary residence class of Article 23.

The service page itself shows the naming is deliberate rather than loose usage: it calls the class transitoria and nowhere uses temporaria.

The heaviest consequence of belonging to the transitional class is the one the programme’s own material never states: the family reunification mechanism of Article 23(ñ) lists only permanent residents and temporary residents among those who may sponsor relatives, so a transitional resident cannot pass through that door.

Readers should therefore take this outcome at its actual size: a time-limited permission to stay for one person, not a first step into Argentina’s residence system. Anyone intending to bring family, or intending to move up to a higher class later, must look to a different route rather than this one.

The National Directorate of Migration publishes no processing time: Disposition 758/2022 and the two service pages, for the initial grant and for extension, state no period for a decision, so what follows is the period of residence rather than the wait for an outcome.

The transitional residence is granted for a period of up to one hundred and eighty days and is extendable for an equal term.

The condition for extension is not a re-filing of the original documents but a test of actual results: the applicant must produce evidence of the income actually received for services provided during the very period of residence being extended, together with a criminal record certificate from the country of origin.

At the extension stage specifically, the criminal record certificate that Argentina's National Registry of Recidivism issues has been incorporated into the Radex system and so need not be obtained separately

The category is open only to foreign nationals of countries that do not require a visa to enter as tourists — a filter that closes before any other. The second condition is location: the applicant must be within the territory of the Argentine Republic when the procedure is carried out, and must have entered lawfully. The location requirement comes from the current service page; Article 2(e) of Disposition 758/2022 still sets a fee for applications made from abroad through Electronic Entry Processing (Tramitación de Ingreso Electrónica), and the Directorate's fee table still lists that electronic route for nationals of countries exempt from the tourist visa. The instrument and the service page therefore diverge, and the service page does not say whether filing from abroad remains available for this route.

The ordinary Vietnamese passport does not pass the first filter: the Directorate's visa-regime table places Viet Nam among nationalities that require a tourist visa (REQUIERE VISA), so Vietnamese nationals fall outside this route.

The Electronic Travel Authorisation (AVE), the entry route the table opens to Vietnamese nationals, does not change that conclusion. The Directorate's AVE page limits it to tourism by holders of certain valid United States visas, and the AVE rules in Annex I to Disposition 4285/2019 declare inadmissible any application made in Argentine territory to change category or subcategory after entry on an AVE.

The procedure is done in person and not through the Radex system: those living in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires contact the authority by email, while those elsewhere in the country attend in person at the delegation or migration office of the National Directorate of Migration for their jurisdiction.

The Directorate states expressly that its procedures are personal and straightforward, that no agent is needed, and that the only payments due are those generated by the web platform itself

This category admits no accompanying dependants, and that conclusion rests on two grounds rather than one.

First, the instrument creating the category, Disposition 758 of 2022 of the National Migration Directorate, is silent on family: it does not mention a spouse, a child, cohabitation or a family group.

The only place the instrument mentions family is the title of an international convention on the protection of migrant workers and their families.

The five document classes the disposition requires are the application with a curriculum vitae, the passport, photographs, evidence of the activity and the fee; no item concerns relatives and no income threshold is given in figures.

Second, and this is what decides the matter, the general reunification mechanism of Law 25,871 excludes this status outright:

Article 23(ñ) allows reunification for a person who is the spouse, parent or child of an Argentine national, or the spouse, parent or unmarried child under eighteen and not emancipated, or adult child with differing capacities, of a permanent resident or a temporary resident.

The list of sponsors contains those two statuses only, whereas the digital nomad holds transitory residence under article 24, capped at 180 days, and so falls outside it.

The same way points Disposition 4880 of 2015 as amended in 2017, which recognises a registered cohabiting union on the same footing as marriage, but again only where the partner is an Argentine national or a foreigner settled permanently or temporarily.

Article 10 of the statute does declare a right of reunification with parents, spouses, unmarried minor children or adult children with differing capacities, but that is the rights chapter rather than an implementing provision.

One point belongs with any reading: Decree 366 of 2025, gazetted on 29 May 2025, replaced a series of articles of Law 25,871, among them articles 22, 25 and 29, and inserted article 23(ñ) on family reunification, the very provision this cell relies on, so the Argentine immigration framework tightened during 2025 and any older record needs rechecking.

The status this programme grants, whether a visa or a residence permit, does not replace the holder's passport. The holder still travels on the passport of their own country, so the figure below belongs to the Argentina passport and becomes the holder's only once they are issued a Argentina passport.

According to the Passport Index of Prosperous Intelligence, on data dated 30 September 2026, the Argentina passport reaches 178 destinations without applying for a consular visa in advance. The figure combines three forms of entry and does not count an e-Visa that must be obtained beforehand:

It is therefore a measure of how easily the holder travels, not a count of visa-free countries in the narrow sense.

For comparison, on the same source and the same method of counting, the Vietnamese passport reaches 44 destinations. The two lists of destinations do not nest inside one another, so the difference is an indication rather than a list of places newly opened.

Prosperous Intelligence dates its data and advises checking with the destination’s official authorities before travelling.

The instrument creating this category establishes no tax regime: the word for levy is used only within the phrase service fee, while tax, fiscal matters, taxable income and the name of the revenue authority are not mentioned at all.

The instrument is Disposition 758/2022 of the National Directorate of Migration, issued in Buenos Aires on 10 May 2022 and published in the Official Bulletin on 11 May 2022.

Article 1 authorises the grant of transitory residence for a period of up to one hundred and eighty days, under Article 24(h) of Law No. 25,871 and Implementing Decree 616 of 3 May 2010, to foreign nationals of countries not requiring a tourist visa.

The purpose is stated in Article 1 itself: to provide services remotely through computing, telecommunications or analogous means, in favour of natural or legal persons domiciled abroad.

Article 2 sets the file: an application giving personal details and the independent work to be carried out, with a short professional record; a valid passport; a photograph.

Documents evidencing the activity, comprising contracts, company certifications, and receipts or evidence of income and remuneration; at least one professional referee; and the service fee.

All information submitted has the character of a sworn declaration.

Article 3 sets three conditions for extension, and the third is notable because it is measured in presence: the extension is granted once only and for exactly the period already granted.

Evidence of income received during the period of residence to be extended must be filed, together with a national criminal record certificate; and the applicant must have been in Argentine territory for not less than 50% of the period of residence to be extended.

Article 5 brings the instrument into force ten days after publication.

The recitals invoke Law 26,202 to place this group among workers with concrete employment under the international convention on the protection of migrant workers, and Article 24(h) of Decree 616/10 as the power for the Directorate to issue general rules on special transitory residents.

The tax position is settled by general law.

Article 1 of the Income Tax Law as consolidated in 2019 sets the scope: residents pay tax on the whole of their gains obtained in the country or abroad, with a credit for similar taxes paid abroad limited to the increase in liability they cause; non-residents pay tax exclusively on Argentine-source gains.

The threshold sits in Article 116(b), precisely where it is needed: tax residents include foreign nationals who have obtained permanent residence in the country, or who, without having obtained it, have remained there under temporary authorisations granted under the migration rules in force for a period of twelve months.

Temporary absences within the periods and conditions set by the implementing rules do not break that continuity.

The second paragraph of the same provision opens a counter-route:

A person without permanent residence whose stay is due to causes that do not imply an intention of habitual permanence may evidence those causes within the periods, forms and conditions set by the implementing rules; and resident status arises from the beginning of the month immediately following the month in which the condition is met.

This must be stated as a joining: the programme ceiling is 180 days plus a single extension of exactly 180 days, that is a maximum of 360 days, sitting just below the twelve-month threshold of Article 116(b).

Those two figures come from two different instruments; this cell places them side by side and draws no conclusion about anyone tax liability.

Read this cell within its scope: Disposition 758/2022 covers conditions, documents, fees and extension, says nothing about tax, nothing about registration with the revenue authority and nothing about social security.

The Income Tax Law states who is a tax resident and the scope of taxation, never mentions this programme, and contains no exception bearing its name

State fees are set in migration service units (UMSM) under Decree 584/2024: Article 2 fixes 1 UMSM at 1,000 pesos, and Article 3 allows the Chief of Cabinet's Office (Jefatura de Gabinete de Ministros) to change that value.

The National Directorate of Migration fee table, read on 16 October 2026, gives the current value of 1 UMSM as 1,000 pesos and three lines that could apply to this route. Transitory residence other than the tourist subcategory is 16 UMSM for nationals of MERCOSUR and associated states and 32 UMSM for other nationalities. Extension of transitory residence under Article 24(h) is 20 and 40 UMSM. A change from the tourist subcategory to the special-reasons subcategory of Article 24(h) is 100 UMSM.

The service page refers to the fee table without saying which line applies to a digital nomad file, so the fee for a given file cannot be fixed from official sources.

The documentation comprises a valid passport, or one of the documents listed in Annex I of the Agreement on Travel and Return Documents of the MERCOSUR States Parties for MERCOSUR nationals; exceptionally, a Certificate of Nationality issued by a consular authority, bearing a photograph and legalised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Alongside it go an Argentine criminal record certificate issued by the National Registry of Recidivism, required only of those over 16; proof of address; and evidence of lawful entry.

The digital nomad limb itself requires an application signed by the person concerned setting out their personal details and the independent work activities they will carry on, including a brief curriculum vitae recording their experience in the field and the level of education or training reached.

Documentary evidence of the activity carried on, whether a contract, a company endorsement or a certification of labour demand, or certifications or receipts of income or fees; and at least one reference connected to their occupation.

The legalisation chain has three limbs: documents issued abroad must be legalised by the Argentine Consulate in the issuing country or carry an apostille where that country has ratified the Hague Convention.

Documents issued by foreign consular representations within Argentina must be legalised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, except for MERCOSUR; and documents in a foreign language must be translated into Spanish by a National Public Translator under Article 6 of Law 20,305 and legalised by the Translators Association.

Documents must be submitted in original, and the Directorate may require further documents beyond the list