Argentina · Business & founder
Temporary Residency as an Investor
The headline ARS 1,500,000 threshold is a legacy nominal figure that has never really been indexed. Confirm the current figure with Migraciones before relying on it. The norm may have been updated, and DNU 366/2025's implementing rules may revise the economic-means tests.
Argentine inflation has quietly turned this into the cheapest investor visa on earth. The ARS 1,500,000 threshold was set when it meant real money. Today it is worth roughly a thousand dollars. The consequence is that the money is no longer the test. Migraciones and the Ministry of Production now scrutinise whether the project itself is genuine. Treat this as a business-plan visa, not an investment visa.
Qualifying routes
requires a project dossier. The Ministry of Production issues a non-binding opinion, which then goes to Migraciones
The facts
- Minimum investment
- 1.5M ARS
- Total landed cost
- the nominal investment is now trivial in dollar terms. Budget USD 5–15k in legal, accounting and project-documentation costs. The file is the cost, not the money
- Route type
- Business & founder
- Timeline
- 6–18 months (the inter-agency review through the Ministry of Production is the bottleneck)
- Physical presence
- Temporary residency can be cancelled after six months' absence under DNU 366/2025
- Family
- SpouseMinor children
- Permanent residency
- 3 years of temporary residency
- Citizenship
- 2 years of residence
- Language test
- none formally
- Dual citizenship
- Permitted
- Requirements
- an investment project of interest to Argentinadocumented lawful origin of fundsfunds remitted via a BCRA-authorised institutionclean criminal record, apostilled
- The ARS 1,500,000 figure is a nominal amount, eroded by inflation to near-irrelevance. Because the number no longer filters anyone, discretionary scrutiny of the project has taken its place. Approval turns on the credibility of the dossier, which is far less predictable than a wire transfer.
- No official source shows whether the ARS 1,500,000 threshold has been updated for 2026. Confirm directly with Migraciones.
- Funds must enter through a BCRA-authorised institution. Their origin and legality must be documented.
- The Ministry of Production's opinion is non-binding. In practice, a negative one ends the application.
- Argentina's exchange controls, tax burden and policy volatility mean the underlying business case, not the visa, should drive this decision.