Living in Venezuela on Income from Abroad
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Argentina 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 Argentina to Venezuela · Residency on passive income
One category covers people who live on income they do not work for: the transient person of independent means, TR-RE. It asks for the equivalent of USD 1,200 a month in lawful income or pension generated abroad, and a further USD 500 a month for each family member travelling with you. The visa runs a year with multiple entries and a year of stay, and is renewed for equal periods on proof that the foreign income still exists. After one uninterrupted year in the country the interior ministry may grant Resident status, renewed every five years. The thresholds were set in December 1999 and the foreign ministry still publishes the same two figures.
At a glance
- Income required
- USD 1,200 a monthas of 2026-10-06
Set in the December 1999 resolution and repeated unchanged on the foreign ministry's current page.
- Per accompanying family member
- USD 500 a month
- Income must come from
- Abroad
- Visa validity and stay
- One year, multiple entries, one year of stay
- Renewal
- Equal periods, on proof the foreign income sources persist
- Time to Resident status
- One uninterrupted year, then at the interior ministry's discretion
- Resident status renewed
- Every five years
Requirements
- Proof of a monthly income equivalent to USD 1,200 from lawful income or a pension generated abroad
- A further USD 500 a month for each family member travelling with you, with documents proving the relationship
- A passport valid for at least six months and two passport photographs
- A medical certificate from the health authority of your country, a copy of your return or onward ticket and the consular fee
- To renew: an account on the migration service's website, the passport, entry and exit stamps, the previous visas and a certificate of lawful means showing the income still exists
Country-level policy
The joint resolution that defines every class of Venezuelan visa was made in December 1999 by three ministries, and it says on its face which law it was made under: the Ley de Extranjeros and the Regulation of the Ley de Extranjeros. The Ley de Extranjería y Migración of 2004 repealed the Ley de Extranjeros by name, and required the President to make a regulation of the new Act within sixty days of publication. The foreign ministry and the consulates still publish the 1999 catalogue of visas, visa by visa, with the same codes and in most places the same wording. We did not find a regulation made under the 2004 Act. That matters to a reader because it is why the two sets of rules do not line up: the 1999 text names ministries that no longer exist, lets a business visitor stay 180 days where the Act caps a non-migrant at 90 plus 90, and routes the investor through an authority that has been replaced.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Argentina
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
«Artículo 17°- Transeúnte Rentista (TR-RE) Se otorgará a personas no migrantes, que vivan de sus rentas lícitas o pensión, con ingreso mensual equivalente a US$ 1.200,oo, generados en el exterior. Cuando viaje acompañado por miembros de su familia deberá comprobar además, poseer ingresos mensuales fijos de US$ 500,oo por cada acompañante.»Our translation - not official
Transient Person of Independent Means (TR-RE): granted to non-migrants who live on lawful income or a pension, with a monthly income equivalent to US$ 1,200, generated abroad. Where they travel accompanied by family members they must also show fixed monthly income of US$ 500 for each companion.
The condition that the income is generated abroad is part of the test. Without it the rule would reach any unearned income, which is wider than what the resolution says.
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A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
«Demostración fehaciente del ingreso mensual y del vínculo familiar cuando viaje acompañado, a través de documentos emitidos por las autoridades locales.»Our translation - not official
Reliable proof of the monthly income and of the family relationship where travelling accompanied, by documents issued by the local authorities.
About this source
A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
«Artículo 19º- El Visado Transeúnte Rentista se otorgará con una vigencia de un (1) año, múltiples entradas, con igual término de permanencia. Vencido el mismo, podrá ser prorrogado por términos iguales por el Ministerio del Interior y Justicia previa justificación de que subsisten las fuentes de ingresos extranjeros.»Our translation - not official
The Transient Person of Independent Means visa is granted with a validity of one (1) year, multiple entries, with an equal period of stay. On expiry it may be extended for equal periods by the Ministry of the Interior and Justice, on proof that the foreign income sources persist.
About this source
A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
«Artículo 40°- El extranjero que hubiere permanecido un mínimo de un año ininterrumpido en el territorio de la República con Visa de Transeúnte Inversionista (TR-I); Transeúnte Familiar Venezolano (TR-FV); Transeúnte Rentista (TR-RE); Transeúnte Empleado Doméstico (TR-ED); Transeúnte Religioso (TR-REL) o Transeúnte Laboral (TR-L) y correspondiente visado familiar, el Ministerio del Interior y Justicia, le podrá otorgar, si lo solicitare, la condición de Residente, que será renovada cada cinco (5) años.»Our translation - not official
A foreigner who has stayed a minimum of one uninterrupted year in the territory of the Republic on a Transient Investor (TR-I), Venezuelan Family Member (TR-FV), Transient Person of Independent Means (TR-RE), Transient Domestic Employee (TR-ED), Transient Religious (TR-REL) or Transient Labour (TR-L) visa and the corresponding family visa may, on application, be granted Resident status by the Ministry of the Interior and Justice, renewable every five (5) years.
This is the whole of the list. The business visa and the entrepreneur/industrialist visa are not on it, so neither of those two leads to residence by this route.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
«Se otorgará a personas no migrantes, que vivan de sus rentas lícitas o pensión, con ingreso mensual equivalente a mil doscientos dólares (USD$ 1.200,00), generados en el exterior.»Our translation - not official
Granted to non-migrants who live on lawful income or a pension, with a monthly income equivalent to one thousand two hundred dollars (USD$ 1,200.00), generated abroad.
The ministry repeats the 1999 figure. Nothing on the page indexes it to anything.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The foreign ministry, which runs the consular network that issues every Venezuelan visa. Its services pages list the thirteen visa classes it issues and give, for each, a description, the documents required and the validity and permitted stay. It is the only current statement of what a Venezuelan consulate will actually ask for, and it is a required counterweight to the 1999 resolution: between them they show where the practice has moved.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Not the instrument, and it must never be quoted as one. Its pages paraphrase the 1999 joint resolution and in several places depart from it: the business visa is given ninety days where the resolution gives one hundred and eighty, and is called the tourist visa while doing so; the entrepreneur visa's terms are introduced as the rentista's; the family visa accepts a marriage celebrated in Venezuela, which the resolution does not; and it lists one visa class, the Transeúnte Familiar Migrante Permanente, that is in no article of the resolution. It publishes no fee - every page says the consular tariff must be asked of the particular mission - and no list of visa-exempt nationalities. The embassy and consulate sites under embajada.gob.ve and consulado.gob.ve are run from the same platform and must not be cited at all for visa descriptions: several of them still carry Lorem ipsum placeholder text where the description should be.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
«Certificación de medios lícitos que validen que dicha persona vive de rentas lícitas o pensión con un ingreso mensual equivalente a $1200 al cambio.»Our translation - not official
Certificate of lawful means confirming that the person lives on lawful income or a pension with a monthly income equivalent to $1200 at the exchange rate.
The migration service adds the words 'al cambio' - at the exchange rate - which neither the resolution nor the foreign ministry's page uses.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The migration service, under the interior ministry. It decides everything that happens after arrival: the extension of a stay, the renewal of a transient visa, the change to Resident status, the foreigner's identity card and the migration record. Its extranjería pages are the only published statement of what an in-country renewal requires, and they are quoted here for the renewal conditions that no instrument states.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It applies the rules and does not make them, and its pages add conditions the instrument does not contain. Its extranjería page is a JavaScript accordion: the capture separates headings from their lists and at least one heading is paired with the wrong requirements, so a line from it may be quoted for itself but must not be attributed to a heading without a second reading. The Extranjería tile on its own home page links to an address the site answers with its own not-found page. It publishes no fee amounts and no visa-exempt nationality list.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
Practical notes
The same category serves a pension and an investment income; the resolution names both in the same sentence and there is no separate retirement route.
The two dollar figures have stood unchanged since the resolution was made in December 1999. Nothing in any of the three sources indexes them to a wage, a tax unit or an exchange rate.
- reportsNormas del Procedimiento para la Expedición de Visado, Resolución Conjunta N° 364 / 165 / 0530, Gaceta Oficial N° 5.427 Extraordinario de 5 de enero de 2000
Justia Venezuela
About this source
A commercial legal aggregator holding text-layer PDFs of Venezuelan instruments, each headed with the Gaceta Oficial number and date it reproduces. It is used here for one document that no government host would give us: the joint resolution of December 1999 that defines every class of Venezuelan visa, complete, articles 1 to 49.
Standing: Reports, establishes nothing
Cannot be cited for: Its archive is frozen in the early 2000s and it tracks no amendments, so it must never be cited as evidence that a text is current: its Código Orgánico Tributario is the 2001 Code repealed in 2020 and its income tax law is the 2001 one, both superseded several times over. It introduces its own errors as well - its 1998 traffic regulation prints the wrong gazette date and renders 'tres (3) años' as 'tres (93) años' - so a figure taken from here needs a second reading before it is published. It must not be cited where a government source exists; the one record resting on it says in its own data that the source is an aggregator.
We re-read it every 180 days. More about this source
- administersVisa de Transeúnte Rentista (TR-RE)
Ministerio del Poder Popular para Relaciones Exteriores
About this source
The foreign ministry, which runs the consular network that issues every Venezuelan visa. Its services pages list the thirteen visa classes it issues and give, for each, a description, the documents required and the validity and permitted stay. It is the only current statement of what a Venezuelan consulate will actually ask for, and it is a required counterweight to the 1999 resolution: between them they show where the practice has moved.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: Not the instrument, and it must never be quoted as one. Its pages paraphrase the 1999 joint resolution and in several places depart from it: the business visa is given ninety days where the resolution gives one hundred and eighty, and is called the tourist visa while doing so; the entrepreneur visa's terms are introduced as the rentista's; the family visa accepts a marriage celebrated in Venezuela, which the resolution does not; and it lists one visa class, the Transeúnte Familiar Migrante Permanente, that is in no article of the resolution. It publishes no fee - every page says the consular tariff must be asked of the particular mission - and no list of visa-exempt nationalities. The embassy and consulate sites under embajada.gob.ve and consulado.gob.ve are run from the same platform and must not be cited at all for visa descriptions: several of them still carry Lorem ipsum placeholder text where the description should be.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source
- administersSaime - Extranjería: requisitos de renovación y prórroga
Servicio Administrativo de Identificación, Migración y Extranjería
About this source
The migration service, under the interior ministry. It decides everything that happens after arrival: the extension of a stay, the renewal of a transient visa, the change to Resident status, the foreigner's identity card and the migration record. Its extranjería pages are the only published statement of what an in-country renewal requires, and they are quoted here for the renewal conditions that no instrument states.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It applies the rules and does not make them, and its pages add conditions the instrument does not contain. Its extranjería page is a JavaScript accordion: the capture separates headings from their lists and at least one heading is paired with the wrong requirements, so a line from it may be quoted for itself but must not be attributed to a heading without a second reading. The Extranjería tile on its own home page links to an address the site answers with its own not-found page. It publishes no fee amounts and no visa-exempt nationality list.
We re-read it every 90 days. More about this source