Once again, Argentina has made a major change to their policies with little advance notice. The rentista visa, which is a popular option for expats wishing to live legally in Argentina, now has an income requirement of AR $8000/month per person. This represents a 333% increase from the previous amount of AR $2400/month. This law [...]
Entries from July 2010
Argentina Increases Rentista Visa Income Requirements
July 31st, 2010 · 23 Comments
Tags: Living
Buenos Aires News: Edition 13
July 27th, 2010 · 3 Comments
Gay marriage is now legal in Buenos Aires after President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner signed the bill into law last week. Perhaps the best headline I saw about this was, “Argentina approves gay divorce.” Here’s what else is making news over the past week: Argentine Peso Gets Lift From Record Soy Harvest as Volatility Gauge [...]
Tags: News
Expat Tech: Skype Now Supports Multi-Tasking
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
We previously reported at the end of May on Skype adding support for 3G calling to their iPhone app and are now happy to report that as of yesterday, Skype now also supports multi-tasking on Apple’s new iOS 4 for the iPhone 4 and 3GS. What this means is that you can now run Skype [...]
Tags: Tech
Vonage Reduces Cost to Call Argentine Cell Phones by 65%
July 21st, 2010 · No Comments
I’ve long been a customer and fan of Vonage, so it was especially nice to get an email from them today announcing a number of rate decreases. While Vonage offers free calls to most foreign landline phones, they often charge for calling mobile numbers. With today’s announcement, they have reduced the per-minute rate from U$S [...]
