Traveler, Billy Zeballos, captures a great shot while trekking in Argentina
UPDATE: As of Dec. 20, 2009, Argentina now charges a reciprocity fee. Click here for details.
Great news from our affiliates in Argentina:
The announcement of charging a reciprocity fee to passengers was rejected. As a consequence of the pressure of the tourist sector, the decision to implement it has been “frozen.” – Kallpa
In other words, Argentina is not implementing the visa reciprocity fee at this point for US citizens. I’ll keep you posted of any changes. For additional requirements for travel to Argentina visit the US Department of State’s website.
Why I love Argentina: Argentina travel differs region-to-region, offering a diverse landscape of glaciers, fjords, inlets, lakes, forests, and desert. Northern Argentina showcases excellent trekking through rocky landforms and deep gorges, and the thunderous Iguazu Falls which cascades through lush subtropical rainforest. In southern Argentina, meet the awe-inspiring scenery of the end of the world, its colorful port towns, verdant fjords, and rugged, glacier-topped mountains. The celebrated city of Buenos Aires offers an European-flavor, fantastic local wines, and a livelihood captured in the iconic dance, the tango.
Frankly, I love it even more, now that the proposed visa reciprocity fee has been rejected…
The arguments in favor of the reciprocity fee are idiotic. Are you telling me that the cost of Argentina to screen people that will not overstay and do not want to harm that country is $131.00 per person. That’s BS.
My wife and I canceled our trip to Argentina. We are both from Central America originally but did not want to fork the money for our other passports that only last 5 years. We were stuck as Americans and decided to cancel everything before giving our money away to some populist measure.
What are the $131 going to be use for????? At least with the USA, we know is covering the bureaucratic and administrative fees of screening visitors. Why should US residents subsidize that expense. It makes sense that visitor forks it.
I bet you it’s just some corrupt populist measure meant to appease “el pueblo” and fatten up some politicians.
What do they think that the few countries that are charged are going to change their policies????? Like they are not thousands of Brazilians and Argentinians that do not overstay in Canada and the US. I don’t blame them. I would too. What I am criticizing is the lack of logic.
ONE CHARGE SERVES A PURPOSE. THE OTHER ONE IS JUST A TANTRUM. They do not charge citizens of countries that most do not overstay their visits….
IDIOTIC and COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. We’ll stick to Peru and Colombia, warmer people, less arrogant, and with less “infulas de grandeza.”