Argentina · Citizenship by Investment
Argentina is opening its citizenship to investors.
South America’s first programme, expected to open this quarter, from USD 350,000. Bond and Partners holds your place in the first intake.
Programme status, October 2026. Pricing is announced and Argentina is targeting the fourth quarter of 2026, the quarter now under way. Applications are not open yet and no portal exists, which is exactly why a place in the queue matters today.
What it costs
One contribution.
One published price.
On 2 October 2026 Argentina put a number on its programme for the first time. This is that number, unchanged.
Contribution to the Argentine Treasury
USD350,000
Non-refundable. Principal applicant. This is the route we work with.
Adding your family
- SpouseUSD 100,000
- Child aged 18 to 25, unmarried and without childrenUSD 100,000
- Child under 18USD 25,000
Figures announced 2 October 2026. Government fees and processing costs have not been published, so no firm can yet quote a true all-in number.
There is also a bond route: USD 800,000 in a seven-year government security paying no interest, covering the principal applicant only, with dependants still added by Treasury contribution. It ties up more than twice the capital for the same passport, so it is rarely the right answer. Ask us if you want it looked at.
The timing
Europe has told the Caribbean to close.
On 25 June 2026 the European Commission wrote to five Caribbean states asking them to phase out their citizenship by investment programmes by 1 June 2028. The letter named Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Saint Lucia. If they do not comply, their citizens can lose visa-free entry to the Schengen Area.
The legal basis is the revised EU Visa Suspension Mechanism, in force since 31 December 2025, under which simply running a citizenship by investment programme is now grounds on its own to suspend visa-free travel.
Those five programmes are what Argentina is about to compete with. Entry there starts near USD 200,000. Argentina starts at USD 350,000, with a passport that was strong before the programme existed and will be strong without it.
25 Jun 2026
European Commission letter sent to the five states
1 Jun 2028
Deadline given to phase the programmes out
5
Competing programmes directly affected
Perito Moreno Glacier · Santa Cruz Province
The asset
The Argentine passport is already one of the strongest in the Americas.
~170
Destinations reachable visa-free or with visa on arrival
Schengen, the UK and Japan
Among them, without a prior visa
MERCOSUR
Rights to live, work and settle across member states
Every generation
The citizenship passes to your descendants
Destination count per the Henley Passport Index, 2026. Visa policies are set by each destination and change.
Not a passport shop.
A country.
Forty-seven million people, the third largest economy in Latin America, and a passport earned over decades rather than invented for this programme. From Buenos Aires to Patagonia, Argentina was here long before the investors were invited.
Monte Fitz Roy · Santa Cruz Province
The terms
No move.
No renunciation.
No residence in Argentina
The framework qualifies investors regardless of where they live.
No physical presence
There is no minimum stay required to naturalise through this route.
No renunciation
Argentina permits dual citizenship. You keep what you already hold.
No automatic Argentine tax residency
A February 2026 reform moved citizens naturalised through investment out of automatic tax residency. Residency now follows physical presence, not the passport.
On tax, read this carefully
The reform still awaits authorisation from the Ministry of Economy and has no activation date. Two readings of the text compete, one of which treats twelve months of physical presence as the trigger for full worldwide taxation. Treat your own position with a tax adviser. We will not tell you this programme is a tax plan.
The honest version
It is announced.
It is not open.
Most firms selling this will not show you the next ten lines. You are about to move between USD 350,000 and USD 500,000, so you should see them.
May 2025
DNU 366/2025 is issued. It is the instrument allowing naturalisation without prior residence, and the legal foundation of the entire route.
31 July 2025
Decree 524/2025 formally creates the programme, the first of its kind in South America.
April 2026
The tender for the programme operator is cancelled. Weeks later the government appoints an executive director to the Agency for Citizenship by Investment Programmes, APCI.
18 June 2026
A federal appeals chamber in Buenos Aires rules DNU 366/2025 unconstitutional.
30 June 2026
The National Electoral Chamber declares the same decree null.
July 2026
The government appeals to the Supreme Court. The decision is still pending.
2 October 2026
Pricing is announced, with a government target of the fourth quarter of 2026 for first applications.
Today
No application portal exists. Agent accreditation rules are unpublished.
Cerro Torre · Patagonia
Before you commit
Two risks, stated plainly.
The programme may not open on schedule
The fourth quarter target is a government objective, not a commitment, and it depends on a court that has not ruled. Registering a priority place costs you nothing and commits you to nothing. Do not move funds against a date that does not exist yet.
Europe’s new rule points at every programme
The same mechanism being used against the five Caribbean states applies to any visa-exempt country running such a programme. Vanuatu has already lost visa-free access on these grounds. Argentina could come under the same scrutiny once it opens.
Our reading, and it is a reading
Argentina is not a microstate selling passports as an export. It is a country of 47 million with a passport earned over decades, a published entry price well above the Caribbean floor, and a multi-agency vetting process. That is the profile the Commission says it wants. But no advisory firm can promise you what Brussels will decide, and any firm that does is selling you something it does not have.
Who holds your place
Your partner in the pursuit of freedom.
Bond and Partners advises private clients on citizenship and residency by investment, offshore structures, international banking and asset diversification. Our work spans company formation in more than 25 jurisdictions and banking relationships with more than 15 international institutions.
- An eligibility review before the doors openso your file is built while others are still reading the news.
- Direct notice the day the regulation is publishedbefore it reaches the general market.
- A prepared applicationwith source of funds documented to the standard the announced vetting process requires.
The first intake is being formed now.
Argentina is targeting this quarter. The files that are ready on the day the regulation lands are the files built before it lands.
Iguazú Falls · Misiones Province
Priority register
Register your priority place.
No cost. No commitment. We review your eligibility and contact you within one business day.
- You register. Seven questions, nothing binding.
- We review your eligibility against the announced vetting criteria and come back within one business day.
- We build your file while the regulation is still being drafted.
- You file on day one, ahead of a market that will only start reading then.
Your place is registered.
A Bond adviser will contact you within one business day to review your eligibility. The moment Argentina publishes its implementing regulation, you will hear from us before the general market does.
Questions