Argentina Immigration Service beginning It can suspend and cancel the residence permit (RP) of Russians who received a residence permit (RP) with the birth of the child, but did not stay in the country to live. told the TV channel C5N service manager Florencia Carignano.
“What we are doing is suspending the residence permits of Russians who come to get residence permits because their children are Argentinian, but also spend more time outside[Argentina]than in[the country],” he explained.
According to him, when the issue of Argentine citizenship for a Russian is considered in court, the immigration service will present data that this person’s residence permit was suspended because “he spent a month in Argentina and never came back.”
Carignano warned that Russians who obtained a residence permit and left after the birth of a child could have their residence permit revoked.
Against this background, it became known that on February 9, three pregnant Russian women were “stuck” at the airport in Argentina. login denied to the country. According to Georgy Polina, head of the consular office of the Russian Embassy in Argentina, the diplomatic mission associates the incident with the fact that the republican authorities may consider the information provided by the girls at the entrance to be incomplete or incorrect.
One of them arrived on February 7, two more – on the evening of February 8, reports DEA News. The diplomat stressed that more pregnant women are flying to Argentina, but these three have been specially ordered not to enter the country.
Polin said, “They were not taken into the country in accordance with the immigration law, and one of the reasons why they were prevented from entering the country was to provide incomplete, incorrect and distorted information.”
On Saturday, February 11, the Argentine Immigration Service decided by a court decision. kidnapped Lawyer Christian Rubilar said to the country of pregnant women in the Russian Federation.
“They were all allowed into Argentina an hour ago,” he quotes. TASS. Rubilar noted that the immigration service changed its decision after the court decision.
“Birth Tourism Boom”
It is easier for foreign parents of a child born in Argentina to obtain a republican passport. It allows you to take short-term visa-free trips to 171 countries, including the EU, UK and Japan. red blood cell.
newspaper at the beginning of January 2023 Guard He wrote about the “explosion of natal tourism” among Russians in Argentina. According to Polin, between 2,000 and 2,500 Russian citizens moved to the republic in 2022. The diplomat noted that most of them are Russian women who will give birth there.
In 2023, this number may increase to 10 thousand,” he said.
In contrast, Carignano previously claimed that approximately 10.5 thousand Russian citizens and over 5.8 thousand pregnant women arrived in Argentina in 2022.
Source: Gazeta
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