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Bureaucracy in Argentina

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This video pretty much sums up many of our experiences dealing with Argentine bureaucracy (even though the video is from Spain). I cannot begin to tell you how many trips it takes to get anything done here – usually because some little piece of paperwork is missing.

Here’s some recent examples:
  • It took us 7 trips to the motor vehicles office in order to trade in our car
  • After supposedly getting my DNI within 45 days, I was called back down to the immigration offices because they had misplaced my fingerprints and photos. When I got there (not close, by the way), they told me that they had everything and didn’t need me. They said my DNI would be there within two weeks. Two weeks later, and no DNI, I found out they really were missing my photos and fingerprints and needed me to go again!
  • Getting our marriage license took no less than four trips downtown to present all the paperwork
This is one of the disadvantages of giving up that tourist visa for a more full-time experience here!
- Thanks to Madeline for passing on this video.

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  • Juan

    LOL
    well… I guess Spain has the same issues.

    I had gone to the bank many times to open a stupid savings account. Every time I go there is something new.
    One of my IDs is "too old", bring a birth certificate to prove you are the son of your father, a foreign credit card is not valid, has to be a national CC (Impossible right, since I am opening a bank account) and so on.

  • fiona

    Thank you thank you thank you for showing Bsas bureacracy in its true disciminatiory form depending on the petty nature of the bureacrat in question..this is no exaggeration and even this video is underplayed in terms of any tramite being undertaken close the bureacratic closing hour where even more ludicrous denial techniques are employed.

  • Juan Perez

    To be fair and truthful you should be explaining in your Blog that the video posted here is from Spain with Spanish actors and not an argentine parody.

    This parody anyway is true to a point in any country around the world including the Unites States of America.

    • DaVe

      Juan, good point. I updated the post to say it was from Spain. The bureaucracy in Argentina is much worse than that in the United States. I do have to say that some things are getting better though. We recently got a new DNI and passport for our daughter and the process was very smooth.

  • Bureaucracy Rules

    Well, this is not very different from my experience becoming a US permanent resident. All sorts of clerical errors, misinformed officials, disrespectful employees. I had to contact a senator's office to get an immigration employee to understand she was looking at a previous year's regulations (because those change constantly as well)… as we say in Spanish, "en todos lados se cuecen habas…" It's just a matter of biases and perspectives, isn't it?

    • Juan

      Glad you did that, now if you or any of your readers go to the original youtube post everyone will see the comment in there to show all that this isn't prerogative only to Argentina, and I do not support nor endorse any of those attitudes, but a bunch of countries in the first and third world are having similar problems doesn't matter were you are going to live in the world these problems still exist.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXWZ3uAEKsw&eu…

      Regards
      Juan

      • DaVe

        It's much worse in Argentina than in the United States. I will admit it is getting better as systems are modernized and computerized, but it still has a long way to go. Lines are ridiculous, files are still kept in paper form everywhere, it is often not clear what papers you should actually have, etc.

  • Sean Scott

    Trying getting married in Argentina and have a divorce in the US. I have been trying now for about 8 months and I have given up. On the marriage license here, if there is a divorce, there is notation on the on the license. We dont do that in the US. After about the 8th time, this happened after being told everything was finally good. I have given up.. and it is off to Vegas we go!

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