Temporary Residency by Family Reunification
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Venezuela 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 Venezuela to Argentina · Residency through marriage
One route covers marriage and family alike, and who your relative is decides how long you get. Being the spouse, parent or child of an Argentine gives up to three years. Being the family member of a resident rather than a citizen ties your permission to theirs, and the qualifying relationships narrow: a child has to be unmarried, under eighteen and not emancipated, or an adult with a disability.
At a glance
- Family of an Argentine
- Up to 3 years
- Family of a resident
- The period authorised to that resident
Your permission is derivative - it ends when theirs does
- Qualifying child, of an Argentine
- Any child
- Qualifying child, of a resident
- Unmarried, under 18 and not emancipated, or an adult with a disability
- Entries and exits
- Multiple
- Legal basis
- Ley 25.871 art. 23, as modified by Decreto 366/2025
Article 23 of the law is the one that was rewritten: Decreto 366/2025 substituted the family-reunification wording quoted here, so the citation is to the resulting article of the law.
Requirements
- Be the spouse, parent or child of an Argentine - by birth, by naturalisation or by option
- Or be the spouse, parent or unmarried child under eighteen and not emancipated, or an adult child with a disability, of a permanent or temporary resident
- Authorised for up to three years, or for the period authorised to the temporary resident you are joining, renewable, with multiple entries and exits
- The migration authority weighs the scope of the right to family reunification in deciding
- Valid passport, or a Mercosur travel document listed in Annex I of DC-46-2015-CMC
- Argentine criminal record certificate - generated inside RaDEX, not applied for separately
- Criminal record certificates from every country you lived in for more than a year in the last three years
In detail
Against Colombia's spouse route
Colombia gives marriage to a citizen its own visa category, requires the Colombian spouse to write the request themselves and permits the authority to interview either party, and reaches permanent residency in three years against five for an unmarried partner. Argentina folds marriage into a single family reunification route alongside parents and children, grants up to three years, and reserves a general discretion rather than specifying interviews. The Argentine route is wider in who it covers and vaguer in how it is decided.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Venezuela
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
«Ser cónyuge, progenitor o hijo de argentino nativo, naturalizado o por opción; o ser cónyuge, progenitor o hijo soltero menor de DIECIOCHO (18) años, no emancipado, o mayor con capacidades diferentes, de un residente permanente o temporario, con autorización para permanecer en el país por un máximo de TRES (3) años, o por el período de tiempo autorizado a su familiar radicado temporario, prorrogable, con entradas y salidas múltiples.»Our translation - not official
To be the spouse, parent or child of an Argentine by birth, by naturalisation or by option; or to be the spouse, parent or unmarried child under EIGHTEEN (18) years of age, not emancipated, or an adult child with disabilities, of a permanent or temporary resident, with authorisation to remain in the country for a maximum of THREE (3) years, or for the period authorised to the temporarily settled relative, renewable, with multiple entries and exits.
Read the two halves against each other. The relationship to an Argentine is stated without qualification; the relationship to a mere resident is hedged with age, marital status and emancipation. Family of a citizen and family of a resident are not the same case.
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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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«Para su otorgamiento, la autoridad migratoria tendrá en cuenta el alcance del derecho de reunificación familiar.»Our translation - not official
In granting it, the migration authority will take into account the scope of the right to family reunification.
The directorate's rendering, and the weaker of the two. The statute says the authority deberá tener en cuenta, not tendrá, and points at article 10 by name; the agency page drops the pointer. Article 10 is what bounds the right, so a reader working from this page cannot see what the discretion is exercised against.
Read it at the sourceAbout 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.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
«Para su otorgamiento, la autoridad migratoria deberá tener en cuenta el alcance del derecho de reunificación familiar establecido por el artículo 10 de la presente ley.»Our translation - not official
In granting it, the migration authority must take into account the scope of the right to family reunification established by article 10 of this law.
The instrument, quoted in place of relying on the agency's summary of it. Two differences from that summary matter: the duty is deberá rather than tendrá, and the standard it is measured against is named.
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 Estado garantizará el derecho de reunificación familiar de los inmigrantes con sus padres, cónyuges, hijos solteros menores o hijos mayores con capacidades diferentes.»Our translation - not official
The State shall guarantee immigrants the right to family reunification with their parents, spouses, unmarried minor children, or adult children with disabilities.
This is the provision article 23 points at, and it does not match article 23's own list. It reaches an adult child with a disability, which the category text does not mention, and it does not reach an adult child otherwise. Which list governs where they diverge is not settled by either article.
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.
We re-read it every 30 days. More about this source
Practical notes
The consolidated text carries an editorial note recording that a 2015 directorate measure recognises a registered cohabiting union as having legal effects analogous to marriage for admission purposes. That measure itself has not been read here, so what it requires as proof of the union is not stated.
- administersObtener una residencia temporaria por reunificacion familiar
Direccion 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.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source