Like many expats, we’re here on tourist visas which are only valid for 90 days. Now, there’s a few ways to extend that time:
Head to prorrogas de permanencia at the office of migraciones and pay for a 90 day extension. The cost is $100 pesos and you can only do this once per 90 day [...]
(updated with new details) The Argentine Post is reporting that the Argentine government is planning to require Americans and citizens of 115 other countries to pay for a tourist visa to visit Argentina. This would be in direct reciprocity for countries that charge Argentines a similar visa fee. This fee will go into effect on January [...]
With this being the presidential election year, remembering to register for an absentee ballot seems even more critical. Luckily, the Federal Voting Assistance Program has a newly redesigned web site to help with this process. And this week the U.S. Embassy sent out the following email with more details:
New Website for Overseas Voters
We encourage you [...]
We had our first Spanish lesson on Tuesday, and thanks to reading another blog, we found a great teacher, Marco Luccón who runs Hablar en Buenos Aires. He’s 24 and really loves languages and teaching. He has split his apartment in Palermo into a living area and a classroom (complete with whiteboard) and has prepared [...]
As much as you may plan, not everything always goes according to that plan. Case in point: while all our luggage made it in one piece, not all the contents of the luggage made it in one piece. I just discovered this today when we moved into our new apartment and I hooked up my computer and [...]
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After nearly 24 hours of travelling, we made it to our temporary condo in Buenos Aires yesterday. We left for our 4:30pm flight out of JFK at around noon on Tuesday making sure to give ourselves enough time to check the extra luggage and make sure we got through security with a carry-on full of [...]
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We’re not planning on opening bank accounts in Argentina and we’re going to bring our U.S. issued credit cards with us, so there were a few things we really needed to consider:
Access to cash
ATM and credit card fees
Depositing checks in the U.S.
Access to Cash
While researching how to best get cash and pay bills when there, I found [...]
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The last few days have been pretty crazy. We left Vermont on Sunday after finalizing all the packing up and preparing the house for the ski season. The last couple of days in NYC have been filled with running around - returning my leased car, sending some final pieces of mail and FedEx, returning licence [...]
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While I realize that this is not going to be a part of most people’s planning process, being the Internet guru, I started looking for BsAs domain names as soon as I decided to make the move. I figured, who knows what I’ll be doing or what’s going to interest me, but it might make [...]
Yesterday, we took care of the most important thing we’re bringing with us - Delilah, Mersal’s 8 year old, 7.5 pound, mini-pinscher. She has already dictated whether we were going to move or not (could we take her with us), where we lived (she has to have some outdoor space), an increased security deposit ($900 [...]
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