Argentina entry requirements for Canadian citizens

Do Canadians need a visa for Argentina? No, for up to 90 days

Canadian citizens enter Argentina without a visa. Migraciones officers admit you for up to 90 days on an ordinary Canadian passport, with no entry fee and nothing to file online before you fly; the reciprocity fee Canadians once paid no longer applies.

Those 90 days cover holidays, scouting trips and family visits. Work for an Argentine employer or client sits outside them, and so does settled life: living in Argentina takes a residence category from Migraciones (Dirección Nacional de Migraciones).

What to carry at check-in and at the border

Your airline checks documents before boarding in Canada, and Argentine officers decide admission on arrival, usually at Ezeiza airport outside Buenos Aires. The hand luggage covers the questions they ask: a Canadian passport valid for your whole stay, a return or onward ticket, the address of your first accommodation, and a bank card or cash showing you can support yourself.

Canadians who are also Argentine citizens enter and leave Argentina on Argentine documents. A child travelling with one parent carries a consent letter signed by the other; the Government of Canada publishes a template.

Cash worth more than US$10,000 is declared to Aduana, the customs service, on arrival. No vaccination is required to enter from Canada, and a yellow fever shot is recommended for Misiones, home of Iguazú Falls, or Corrientes.

How to extend a tourist stay by 90 days

Migraciones extends a tourist stay once, by 90 days. The application and its fee are handled before the first 90 days run out, counted from your arrival date.

Staying past the permitted date without an extension or a pending residence application is an overstay, and Migraciones charges a fine for it. Booking an appointment or a later flight leaves the permitted date untouched.

When a visit turns into a move

A few days outside Argentina, often by ferry to Colonia in Uruguay, can earn a fresh 90-day stay on return. Officers may still refuse entry to someone who appears to be living in Argentina on tourist stays, and the pattern worth avoiding is the one where the border becomes the housing plan.

Rentista (passive income from abroad) and pensionado (a foreign pension) residence need proven income of at least 5 times the minimum wage, about ARS 1.9 million or US$1,250 a month, and give 1 year of temporary residence, renewable. The digital nomad visa grants 180 days, extendable once for 180, for remote work for foreign employers or clients, and work, study and family routes round out the list.

Temporary residence can be filed from inside Argentina while the tourist stay is valid. The Migraciones fee is ARS 100,000, and filing produces a precaria, a provisional certificate usually valid for 90 days and renewable, that keeps the stay legal until the decision, which typically takes 3 to 12 months.