Argentina digital nomad visa: requirements (2026)
Digital nomad visa in Argentina: dedicated visa.
Argentina has a dedicated digital-nomad visa in force since May 2022, granting a transitory residence of up to 180 days (renewable once, up to ~1 year) to nationals of visa-exempt countries who work remotely for foreign employers or clients. Longer-term relocators typically use the Rentista (passive income), Pensionado (pension) or Inversor (investment) temporary residence routes under Law 25.871, all of which can lead to permanent residence and citizenship. Following Decree 366/2025, requirements were tightened, most notably naturalization now demands two years of uninterrupted physical presence.
Legal framework
Ley de Migraciones 25.871 and Dirección Nacional de Migraciones (DNM) Disposición 758/2022, which created the 'Nómada Digital' transitory residence category, alongside the Rentista, Pensionado and Inversor temporary residence categories.
Key points: digital nomad & residency in Argentina
Dedicated Digital Nomad residence
DNM Disposición 758/2022 (published 11 May 2022 in the Boletín Oficial) created a specific 'Residencia Transitoria – Nómada Digital' category for foreigners providing remote services to persons or companies based abroad, valid up to 180 days.
Eligibility & documentation
Restricted to nationals of countries that do not require a tourist visa for Argentina; applicants must submit a signed request, CV, proof of remote activity (contract, employer letter, invoices/receipts) and at least one professional reference, plus criminal record and proof of address.
Renewal (single extension)
The residence may be extended once for another period equal to the original (up to 180 days), provided the holder has physically remained in Argentina for at least 50% of the first period and can prove continued remote income.
Rentista visa (passive income route)
Under Law 25.871 art. 23(f), foreigners with stable passive income from abroad (pensions, dividends, rents, royalties, interest) — commonly benchmarked at ~5× the Argentine minimum wage — may obtain a one-year renewable temporary residence, leading to permanent residence and citizenship.
Pensionado & Investor routes
Retirees with a stable foreign pension and investors committing capital to a productive activity in Argentina (historically ARS 1.5 million minimum, revised by DNM instructions) may access temporary residence under art. 23(e) and 23(g) of Law 25.871 respectively.
Path to citizenship (tightened in 2025)
Citizenship Law 346 grants naturalization after 2 years of continuous residence, but Decree 366/2025 now requires that these two years be uninterrupted — any exit from the country resets the clock — and removes automatic access to some public services for temporary residents.
Timeline of decisions
- DecisionFederal Court Strikes Down Decree 366/2025 Citizenship Restrictions
A federal court declared portions of Decree 366/2025 unconstitutional, ruling that the decree's prohibition on foreign parents of Argentine-born children immediately applying for citizenship violated the Constitution. The ruling, the first of its kind against the Milei immigration DNU, creates precedent that an executive decree cannot override constitutionally guaranteed citizenship rights.
My Argentina
- Law · officialDecree 524/2025 creates citizenship-by-investment pathway
Argentina established a procedure allowing foreigners who make a 'relevant investment' (defined by the Ministry of Economy) to apply directly for citizenship via a new Investment Citizenship Programs Agency, bypassing the standard residency-accumulation period. It reshapes how wealthy remote workers and investors can secure long-term status.
Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina
- Law · officialDecree 524/2025: Argentina Launches Citizenship-by-Investment Program
Signed in July 2025, Decree 524/2025 amended the Citizenship Law to allow foreign nationals to obtain Argentine nationality, with no prior residency requirement, via a minimum USD 500,000 investment in qualifying productive sectors (agribusiness, renewables, technology, tourism infrastructure). Argentina becomes the first South American country with such a programme; implementing regulations were still being drafted as of mid-2026.
UNCTAD Investment Policy Monitor
- Law · officialDecree 366/2025 overhauls immigration and residency rules
President Milei's DNU amended Migration Law 25.871, requiring foreigners to hold health insurance, demanding proof of 'sufficient economic means' for permanent residency, tightening citizenship requirements, allowing revocation of residency for absences over one year, and consolidating citizenship authority within the National Migration Directorate.
Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina
- Law · officialDigital nomad transitory residency created (Disposition 758/2022)
The National Migration Directorate established a transitory residency of up to 180 days, renewable once, for remote workers from visa-exempt countries who provide services via technology to foreign-based clients. This was Argentina's first dedicated digital nomad visa, framed as part of a remote-work tourism strategy.
Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina
- Guidance · officialGovernment publishes official digital nomad residency procedure
Migraciones launched the operational guidance and electronic entry process (TIE) for digital nomads under Article 24(h), detailing application documents (CV, proof of remote contract/income) and the once-only extension requiring proof of income and presence in-country for at least 50% of the period.
Argentina.gob.ar (Dirección Nacional de Migraciones)
- Law · officialDecree 616/2010 regulates Migration Law 25.871
The implementing regulation defined how the permanent, temporary (including the rentista/income-based category) and transitory residency types operate, the procedures and requirements that later provided the legal basis for the digital nomad residency under Article 24(h).
InfoLEG (Gobierno de Argentina)
- Guidance · officialPatria Grande: Mass Regularization Program Leverages MERCOSUR Agreement
Argentina launched the Patria Grande program in 2004-2005 to regularize undocumented migrants by operationalizing the 2002 MERCOSUR Residence Agreement. By 2010 more than 1.1 million people, 90% MERCOSUR nationals, had obtained legal Argentine residence via nationality alone (no job offer required). The program cemented the MERCOSUR pathway as the fastest residency route for South American nationals and demonstrated that the new rights-based framework was actively enforced.
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Law · officialMigration Law 25.871 establishes modern residency framework
Argentina enacted its foundational migration law (in force from January 2004), creating the permanent, temporary and transitory residency categories and a rights-based, relatively open immigration regime. It is the statutory basis on which all later residency and digital nomad rules were built.
InfoLEG (Gobierno de Argentina)
- Law · officialMERCOSUR Residence Agreement Signed in Brasilia
On December 6, 2002 the presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay (plus associate states Bolivia and Chile) signed the Agreement on Residence for Nationals of MERCOSUR States. The accord allows any signatory-state national to obtain two years' temporary Argentine residence using only proof of nationality and a clean criminal record, no employment offer or sponsor needed, and then apply for permanent residence before expiry. It remains the simplest and fastest legal residency pathway into Argentina for South American nationals.
UN Network on Migration
Sources
- argentina.gob.ar/servicio/obtener-una-residencia-transitoria-como-nomada-digital
- argentina.gob.ar/servicio/obtener-una-prorroga-de-residencia-transitoria-como-nomada-d
- argentina.gob.ar/servicio/tramitacion-de-ingreso-electronica-nomadas-digitales
- boletinoficial.gob.ar/detalleAviso/primera/262282/20220511
- argentina.gob.ar/normativa/nacional/ley-25871-81801/texto
- argentina.gob.ar/interior/migraciones/residencias/temporaria
- ctoro.cancilleria.gob.ar/en/visa-digital-nomads
- argentina.gob.ar/normativa/nacional/ley-346-49676/texto
- boletinoficial.gob.ar/detalleAviso/primera/311220/20250530
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