Argentina country guide
Passive income · Last checked 2026-08-07
Residencia temporaria como rentista
External income from assets rather than personal work
Argentina’s rentista route is temporary residence for an applicant who supports the stay with lawful external income produced by assets in the applicant’s estate, rather than remuneration for personal work.
- Country
- Argentina
- Applicant basis
- External income from assets rather than personal work
- Responsible authority
- Dirección Nacional de Migraciones
- Official route status
- Current official route
- Information available
- Detailed guide
- Last checked
- 2026-08-07
Supported requirements
What the current source supports
- Document qualifying income equal to at least five Salarios Mínimos, Vitales y Móviles (SMVM). The official indexed unit can change, so no currency conversion is presented.
- Show that the income is produced by assets in the applicant’s estate, such as financial instruments, real estate, or company interests. Payment for personal work is expressly outside this category.
- Show that the funds enter Argentina through banking or financial institutions authorized by the Banco Central de la República Argentina.
- Provide the current identity, Argentine criminal-record, foreign criminal-record, domicile, and regular-entry evidence that applies to the applicant.
- Begin through RaDEX, upload the required evidence, pay the applicable charges, and attend the in-person appointment assigned after formal review.
Applicant scope
Who this route generally serves
- Generally designed for
- Applicants able to prove asset-derived external income, its lawful source, and entry of the funds through a financial institution authorized by Argentina’s central bank.
- Legal basis named by the authority
- Law 25,871 Article 23(b), Decree 616/2010, and DNM Dispositions 1732/2023 and 3446/2023, as listed by the current route service.
Route lifecycle
What to confirm from application onward
- Financial basis
- At least five current SMVM in qualifying asset-derived external income. The authority retains case-specific judgment over accepted assets and evidence.
- Government service fees
- The route page does not publish a route-specific amount. Confirm the current RaDEX charge and official migration-fee table before paying.
- Initial status
- Temporary residence for one year.
- Renewal
- The route page describes the one-year status as renewable. Renewal is a separate application and is not guaranteed.
- Dependents
- No route-specific dependent entitlement or financial increment is modeled from the cited page.
- Work rights
- Personal-work remuneration is not a qualifying income source for this route, and this page does not infer unrestricted local work rights.
- Presence considerations
- Residence maintenance and later status use separate continuity and presence rules.
- Permanent residence
- Permanent residence is a separate application under the current residence-history or other qualifying rules; rentista residence does not convert automatically.
- Citizenship relationship
- Naturalization is a separate legal process and is not established by this route.
Official evidence
Sources for this route
General planning information only—not legal, tax, or investment advice. A listed route does not determine eligibility. Verify current rules with the responsible authority before acting.