Investing Your Way In
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Ecuador on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
81 exceptions recorded across 33 countries · none match Ecuador to Argentina · Residency through investment
Argentina has no investor residency category. What it has, since May 2025, is something stranger and more valuable: an investment route straight to citizenship, with no residence requirement at all. The Ministry of Economy decides what counts as a relevant investment, and it has not published that anywhere we have read - so the route exists and its price does not.
At a glance
- Investor residency category
- None
What Decreto 366/2025 created is a naturalisation ground, not a residence category: it substituted article 2 of Ley 346, quoted here, which is about acquiring the nationality cualquiera sea el tiempo de su residencia. Article 2 bis delegates the definition of a relevant investment to the Ministry of Economy and we have not found it published.
- Investment route to citizenship
- Yes, with no residence periodas of 2025-05-29
- Who defines the threshold
- Ministry of Economy
- Published threshold
- Not found
- Instrument
- Ley 346 art. 2(2), introduced by Decreto 366/2025 art. 37
Ley 346 is the citizenship law; Decreto 366/2025 substituted its article 2, which is why the citation is to the article of the law and names what put it there.
Requirements
- There is no investor category among the temporary residency routes the migration directorate publishes
- An investor seeking residency uses one of the ordinary routes - income, work or family
- Separately, naturalisation is available to foreigners who prove a relevant investment in the country, whatever the length of their residence
- What counts as a relevant investment is set by the Ministry of Economy
In detail
The route skips the queue entirely
Read this next to the other way into Argentine citizenship and the contrast is stark. The ordinary route is two years of residence which, since the same decree, means two years without leaving the country at all - not once. The investment route asks for no residence period whatsoever. Argentina did not build an investor visa; it built an investor passport, and put it in the citizenship law rather than the migration law.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Ecuador
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Los extranjeros que acrediten ante la DIRECCIÓN NACIONAL DE MIGRACIONES, cualquiera sea el tiempo de su residencia, haber realizado una inversión relevante en el país.»Our translation - not official
Foreigners who prove to the NATIONAL DIRECTORATE OF MIGRATION, whatever the length of their residence, that they have made a relevant investment in the country.
'Cualquiera sea el tiempo de su residencia' - whatever the length of their residence. Against the other naturalisation route, which since the same decree requires two years without leaving the country once, this is a different order of concession.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The Ministry of Justice's legal information service, published under argentina.gob.ar/normativa and still signing its editorial notes "Nota Infoleg". It maintains the text of a law as amended, annotating each article with the instrument that substituted, incorporated or repealed it and its gazette date, and listing superseded wordings under "Antecedentes Normativos". This is where Ley 346 art. 2 can be read as it stands rather than reconstructed from Decreto 366/2025, and where the repeal of arts. 3, 4, 5 and 11 is visible at all.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: One instrument has two addresses here and they are not interchangeable: /actualizacion is the consolidated text, /texto is the text as enacted and carries no amendment annotation whatsoever. Not every instrument has a consolidated text, and its absence is not evidence that nothing has amended the original - Decreto 616/2010 is available here only at /texto, so its art. 22 reads as live while Decreto 366/2025 has overtaken what it provides. The consolidated pages also carry no date of consolidation: there is no "as at" line, so the page cannot tell you whether an amendment published last week has been worked in yet. And consolidation is the Ministry's editorial work rather than an enacted instrument - where it and the gazette disagree, the gazette is what took legal effect.
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«el MINISTERIO DE ECONOMÍA establecerá qué inversiones serán consideradas relevantes, pudiendo establecer proyectos específicos de inversión a tal efecto.»Our translation - not official
the MINISTRY OF ECONOMY will establish which investments are considered relevant, and may establish specific investment projects for that purpose.
The amount is delegated and we have not found it published. Anyone quoting a figure for this route is quoting something we could not locate.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The Ministry of Justice's legal information service, published under argentina.gob.ar/normativa and still signing its editorial notes "Nota Infoleg". It maintains the text of a law as amended, annotating each article with the instrument that substituted, incorporated or repealed it and its gazette date, and listing superseded wordings under "Antecedentes Normativos". This is where Ley 346 art. 2 can be read as it stands rather than reconstructed from Decreto 366/2025, and where the repeal of arts. 3, 4, 5 and 11 is visible at all.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: One instrument has two addresses here and they are not interchangeable: /actualizacion is the consolidated text, /texto is the text as enacted and carries no amendment annotation whatsoever. Not every instrument has a consolidated text, and its absence is not evidence that nothing has amended the original - Decreto 616/2010 is available here only at /texto, so its art. 22 reads as live while Decreto 366/2025 has overtaken what it provides. The consolidated pages also carry no date of consolidation: there is no "as at" line, so the page cannot tell you whether an amendment published last week has been worked in yet. And consolidation is the Ministry's editorial work rather than an enacted instrument - where it and the gazette disagree, the gazette is what took legal effect.
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Practical notes
Scoped to the DNM's published list of temporary residency categories, which contains no investor route, and to the citizenship law.
The same decree created an Agency for Citizenship by Investment Programmes within the Ministry of Economy, which is presumably where the threshold will be published.
- consolidatesLey 346 - Ciudadanía, texto actualizado
Normativa nacional / InfoLEG - Ministerio de Justicia
About this source
The Ministry of Justice's legal information service, published under argentina.gob.ar/normativa and still signing its editorial notes "Nota Infoleg". It maintains the text of a law as amended, annotating each article with the instrument that substituted, incorporated or repealed it and its gazette date, and listing superseded wordings under "Antecedentes Normativos". This is where Ley 346 art. 2 can be read as it stands rather than reconstructed from Decreto 366/2025, and where the repeal of arts. 3, 4, 5 and 11 is visible at all.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: One instrument has two addresses here and they are not interchangeable: /actualizacion is the consolidated text, /texto is the text as enacted and carries no amendment annotation whatsoever. Not every instrument has a consolidated text, and its absence is not evidence that nothing has amended the original - Decreto 616/2010 is available here only at /texto, so its art. 22 reads as live while Decreto 366/2025 has overtaken what it provides. The consolidated pages also carry no date of consolidation: there is no "as at" line, so the page cannot tell you whether an amendment published last week has been worked in yet. And consolidation is the Ministry's editorial work rather than an enacted instrument - where it and the gazette disagree, the gazette is what took legal effect.
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- administersRadicaciones - Residencia Temporaria
Dirección Nacional de Migraciones / Argentina.gob.ar
About this source
Argentina's migration directorate. It runs RaDEX, the online residency system, decides applications, and publishes the requirements for each residency category along with the fee schedule.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Its service pages are the agency's own summary of the law it applies, not the law. They cite the underlying instruments - Ley 25.871, Decreto 616/2010, the relevant DNM Disposición - but paraphrase their content, and the agency can change what it asks for without any statute moving. Where the requirement matters, the instrument itself is the better source.
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