Immigration to Argentina has decreased considerably in the last 20 years due to
unstable economical situations. Despite of that it continued even during the
worst economical crisis of 2001 when about 80.000 legal immigrants entered the
country.
Conservative figures stablishe that for every legal immigrant there are 3 or 4
illegal immigrants.
It is considered that there are between 750.000 and 2.5 million illegal
immigrants presently living in Argentina.
Nearly a million permanent residency applications were filed from 2000 to
2008, and their country of origin was as follows:
Paraguay 319,492 Bolivia 240,467 Peru 138,355 China 34,746
United States 24,626
Chile 23,231 Uruguay 22,733 Brazil 19,547 Colombia 16,539
South Korea 10,279 Ukraine 10,072
Spain 7,434 Germany 7,164 Mexico 6,791 Ecuador 6,564 Cuba 6,093 France 5,890
Venezuela 4,618 Italy 4,392 Russia 4,249 Other countries 16,855
TOTAL 953,368
In April 2006, the national government started the Patria Grande plan to
regularize the migratory situation of illegal aliens. The plan attempts to ease
the bureaucratic process of getting documentation and residence papers, and is
aimed at citizens of Mercosur countries and its associated states (Bolivia,
Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela).
Sergio
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