Argentina
Argentina Citizenship by Investment Programme (Decreto 524/2025)
Agencia de Programas de Ciudadanía por Inversión (under the Ministry of Economy, established by Decreto 524/2025). Final naturalization decisions issued by the Dirección Nacional de Migraciones (DNM). AML/CFT review by the Unidad de Información Financiera (UIF).
- Min investment
- $500K
- Processing time
- 1-2 months
- Physical presence
- No
- Interview
- —
- Language test
- No
- Dual citizenship
- Yes
- Visa-free destinations
- ~169
- Henley rank (2025)
- #17
Investment options
Business
$500KIndicative USD 500,000 minimum 'relevant investment' into a strategic sector — agribusiness, renewable energy (solar, wind, lithium), technology and innovation, tourism infrastructure, or approved real-estate development. Exact floor and qualifying-asset definitions are being finalized by the Ministry of Economy and have NOT been published in implementing regulations as of May 2026. Holding period not specified; comparable programs typically require 3–5 years.
Additional fees
Fee schedule not yet published. Practitioner estimates suggest USD 10,000–50,000 in application, legal, and due-diligence costs in addition to the USD 500,000 investment, but no government figures have been gazetted.
Family inclusion
- Spouse: —
- Children under 18: —
Spouse and dependent children are 'expected to be includable' under implementing regulations. Family-inclusion rules and per-dependent fees have not been finalized. Argentine nationality law more broadly allows transmission of citizenship to spouses (via marriage + 2 years) and to children by descent, but the CBI fast-track family treatment is undefined.
Tax implications
- Worldwide income taxed: Yes
- Tax residency required: No
Argentina taxes RESIDENTS on worldwide income. The CBI route requires no physical presence in Argentina, so citizenship alone does not establish tax residency. Spending >183 days in Argentina or maintaining 'permanent residence' there triggers tax residency (and worldwide-income exposure). The program is explicitly marketed to keep applicants below the tax-residency threshold. Receiving a CUIT (tax ID) on naturalization is administrative and does not by itself create residency.
Eligibility requirements
- Minimum age 18 (anticipated)
- Clean criminal record (background checks coordinated with intelligence and financial-crimes units)
- Documented legal source of funds
- Make a 'relevant investment' (~USD 500,000) in a strategic sector approved by the Agencia de Programas de Ciudadanía por Inversión
- Pass review by Agencia de Programas de Ciudadanía por Inversión, Dirección Nacional de Migraciones (DNM), and Unidad de Información Financiera (UIF)
Disqualifiers
- Not yet published in implementing regulations.
- Criminal record / pending criminal proceedings
- Failure to satisfy AML/CFT source-of-funds requirements (UIF screening)
- Misrepresentation on application
Recent changes
- 2025-07-31
President Javier Milei signs Decreto 524/2025, amending Argentina's Nationality Law (Ley 346 of 1869) to permit fast-track naturalization for qualifying investors — waiving the standard 2-year prior-residency requirement. Establishes the Agencia de Programas de Ciudadanía por Inversión under the Ministry of Economy.
- 2025
Decreto 366/2025 (earlier 2025) established the broader Régimen de Incentivo a las Grandes Inversiones (RIGI) framework on which the CBI route attaches.
- 2026-04
Government cancels the CBI 'master agent' (exclusive concessionaire) tender following legal challenges. Decrees 524/2025 and 366/2025 remain in force; implementing regulations and application-acceptance commencement pushed to H2 2026.
- 2026-H2
Target window for first applications, per government and practitioner statements. As of May 2026 the program is not accepting applications.
Notes
Proposed program, not yet operational as of May 2026. CRITICAL FRAMING: Argentina's traditional naturalization route already requires only 2 years of legal residence (one of the shortest in the world), and the country has long been pitched by promoters as a 'fast residency-to-citizenship' play. Decreto 524/2025 goes further by formally eliminating the residency requirement for qualifying investors — a genuine CBI rather than a fast-naturalization repackaging — but the implementing regulations defining the qualifying investment, family rules, and fee schedule have NOT been published. The April 2026 cancellation of the master-agent tender means there is no government-appointed exclusive agent; any firm marketing 'reserved slots' is doing so speculatively. The Argentine passport is genuinely strong (~169 visa-free destinations including Schengen, UK, Japan; Henley rank in the high teens), making this a meaningfully different value proposition from Caribbean CBI peers. KEY TAX CAVEAT for US persons: Argentina is a worldwide-income tax jurisdiction, so any US citizen tempted to actually live in Argentina post-naturalization would face Argentine + US tax exposure; the program's value depends on keeping presence below the 183-day tax-residency threshold. CitizenX lists Argentina as 'Coming Soon' with no concrete investment options yet available.
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