Argentina or Uruguay
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| Argentina | Uruguay | |
|---|---|---|
| Salary in IT | — | $ 37 554 |
| Citizenship | 2 years | 5 years |
| Partner can work | yes | — |
| Parents | straightforward | — |
| Pets | no trouble | no trouble |
| Pet limit | no limit | no limit |
| Quarantine | no | no |
| Residence permit fee | — | — |
| Rent, 2 bedrooms | $ 827 · estimate | $ 889 · estimate |
| Basket | $ 28,1 | $ 44,1 |
| Life expectancy | 77.54 | 78.29 |
| Homicides/100k | 3.94 | 11.28 |
| Natural hazards, 0–10 | 4.4 | 2.8 |
How the two sets of routes differ
Long-stay routes in this reference: Argentina — 20, Uruguay — 10. Types present in both: work, remote work, study and family. Argentina adds: talent and retirement.
Fees, thresholds and deadlines
Argentina: every route that publishes a fee charges nothing. Uruguay: fees range from 55.71 to 557.3 UI.
Beyond the first permit
Permanent status: Argentina after 2 years; the other country publishes no term. Citizenship: Argentina after 2 years, Uruguay after 5 years. Both allow a second citizenship.
Argentina in brief
Argentina offers one of the fastest routes to citizenship in Latin America (2 years, dual citizenship allowed, birthright citizenship) and family reunification written into the law, covering parents and a partner's parents through the partner. Bringing pets requires neither quarantine nor an antibody titre test. Limiting factors: extreme volatility of the peso and a history of hyperinflation make reliable salary and price data hard to come by, perceived corruption is worse than the regional average, naturalisation requires Spanish, and natural hazards are uneven — floods around the capital, seismic activity in the west.
Uruguay in brief
Politically stable and, by regional standards, relatively safe, with a reasonably quick route to citizenship and dual citizenship allowed. Limiting factors: compulsory Spanish, a rise in homicides over the past decade, drought risk to the water supply, and IT salaries that are moderate by world standards.
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