Getting your Permanent Residency in Argentina

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009. Mark your calendar.

IMAS is a good idea. Help make it better. Go to the IMAS website ...or contact IMAS via email here.

The first seminar from IMAS, The Immigrant Mutual Aid Society, will meet to give US citizens the most general overview possible regarding DNI and how to obtain it. Non-English speakers will be welcomed, as well, but the proceedings will be focused on US citizens.

If you have questions regarding obtaining permanent or temporary residency in Argentina, this is a meeting that you shouldn't miss.

The seminar will be conducted by Solange Varon, an English-speaking immigration lawyer and an advocate for civil rights in many aspects of immigrant life.

Solange has helped other US citizens obtain their DNI and the focus of the seminar will be on the vicissitudes of a do-it-yourself DNI.

No questions regarding DNI will be considered "off base" nor "too personal."

This is only the first of a number of concerns directed at what it takes for non-Spanish speakers to live in Argentina without "re-inventing the wheel for themselves." The society envisions a group of volunteers to personally assist individuals through tasks that they themselves have experience in completing, those tasks both mudane and momentous.

Almost every other nationality, other than US citizens, has an immigrant mutual aid society rooted in Buenos Aires and Argentina. IMAS intends to correct that at a time when immigration from the United States has swelled to unprecedented proportions. IMAS is open to all.

I encourage you to attend. If you know of others that would benefit, I encourage you to spread the word about the seminar next month.

The actual venue is still to be announced. Watch this space. More to come.