The Russian embassy in Buenos Aires denounces that the Argentine government is restricting and denying residence permits to Russian citizens and insinuates that they are being discriminated against. Russian diplomacy links the restrictions to the fact that in February it was revealed that dozens of pregnant women from that country flew to Argentina in an advanced state of pregnancy to give birth with the intention of obtaining residence and passports, as La Vanguardia explained.
“We are aware of the situation due to the growing practice of the Argentine Migration Service, which is issuing negative resolutions to extend the so-called tourist stay for newly arrived Russian citizens, refusing to issue residence permits for them (and even canceling previously issued ones). ), or issuing orders for them to leave the country under the threat of starting expulsion proceedings. So far, we are talking about dozens of cases. This comment is part of a note provided on Thursday to the Russian agency TASS by Georgy Polin, head of the Consular Area of ​​the Russian embassy in Argentina. The news agency titled the information about him describing the denials of Argentine residency as “massive rejections.”
However, the complaint of the Russian diplomats before the Casa Rosada for the actions of the government of the Peronist Alberto Fernández has been celebrated from Ukraine. A popular tweeter, who follows the day-to-day of the Russian invasion from the Jay in Kyiv account, published this Friday: “Argentina begins the massive deportation of Russian citizens.”
The representation of Moscow in Buenos Aires insinuates that there is discrimination against its citizens and wonders if Migration is also applying its rules to other foreigners or only to Russians. “We start from the fact that the non-discriminatory application of these provisions of Argentine law implies that citizens of other countries that have a visa-free regime with Argentina will be denied a residence permit if the relevant bilateral or multilateral agreements contain provisions Similar. In recent months, only exclusively Russian citizens have been heard of,†says Polin.
Russia recommends that its citizens who are affected “appeal Migration decisions” because in this way they could “remain legally in Argentina, at least until the appeal is considered”, which can take two to four years to resolve.
