for my Residency under "
Rentista Savings" that zero people have confirmed works, and no one knows what anyone wants for this, Immigration bosses also want me to deposit $17,000 USD in an Argentine account. that being said, i have never had a DNI# and thus Santander won't let me open an account (the person i'm helping only had to show $1,200 USD deposited in Cordoba via WesternUnion last year to get a Residency and DNI, so they got lucky i guess?)
since i only have a BNA pesos savings account, i can't wire Dollars, so i'm not sure what the best route is. getting 17k USD in Pesos at the 1,195.56 current ARS/USD rate at
https://www.westernunion.com/us/en/home.html (not including fees) would be 20,324,520 Pesos, so even if i could get 20,000-Peso notes, this would be 1,017 of those notes, of which i'm certain zero Western Union locations have that much. i'm almost certain i would have to go and get 1,000-Peso note stacks from sending smaller amounts like 2,000 USD to different branches, and thus have to travel a lot of pay higher fees, etc.
anyone have any ideas?
anyone know anyone doing the
Rentista Savings option with a Trust or High-Yield Savings Account or similar? (using a lawyer or not; i just need to know the logistics and options). if i could deposit to my friend's Santander USD account it would be cake to show the paper trail, and pay a Public Accountant to show that the money is in Argentina, in Dollars or Pesos (the person i helped didn't need an accountant, which saved $100 USD luckily!)
right now i was planning to just get another
Precaria and then start the citizenship process
without ever having a DNI and just see if it could work. but NOW, with
Migraciones being in-charge of Citizenship (which i completely disagree with, and is against the spirit of
LLA/Milei's desire to give the national Executive branch
less power, not more), this won't be an option according to what they told me in Mendoza this month June 2025. i think my options are:
A. deposit 17,000 USD in various Western Unions and pay a ton in fees, and have to deal with physical cash or risk transferring WU to my
Banco Nacion pesos account (which sounds like a nightmare), and hope that the rate doesn't go higher because then i'll have bought Pesos at a bad rate all at once instead of the dollar-cost-averaging i'm doing now. and pay an accountant to legalize the paper trail.
B. kick the can and hope the immigration reforms are common sense when they are released, and i don't need a DNI, temp residency for 3 years, then perm residency for 2 more years without leavng the country ever.
C. get a work visa that comes with a DNI for a year (zero people have said this is possible; most here want to hire people under the table).
D. go to university that will give me a DNI, which takes forever to enroll and then i'd have to actually study (none of the schools here have any topics i'm interested in, and zero classes in English, which may sound dumb but i don't want to get another degree, and i especially think it's dumb to get a degree in Spanish in Argentina, at least with my topics of study).
E. fake marriage or have a kid. horrible option, but literally hear it all the time: 'why not just have a baby here?' - lol lol lol, you know the peronists have destroyed immigration when THAT is the easiest and most logical option. what a horrible reason to bring a life into the world. and i'm not doing a fake marriage with an Argentine to get a passport; it could easily get caught, and i'm too high wealth to risk my crypto assets be seized by a divorce.
anyone else see anything that has worked? i just need a DNI number it seems, then everything else gets smoother afterward. right now my bottleneck is Immigrations saying i need to deposit 5x monthly salary in one lump sum for a year's residency, which is 17,000. maybe i could fly with 17,000 USD into Buenos Aires and declare it, and have that paper trail, and exchange it at a
cueva to deposit those pesos in my BNA account? i imagine that will be quite the clusterf^^^
