Argentina - May 2025

On 29 May, the government issued a ‘Necessity and Urgency Decree’ (No. 366/2025) to reform the country’s migration legal framework, sparking criticism over the executive bypassing Congress. The reform tightens conditions for acquiring permanent residency and citizenship, denies entry to migrants with any criminal record and accelerates deportation procedures. It makes migrants making ‘significant monetary investment’ eligible for citizenship regardless of time of stay. It also ends free public healthcare for temporary or irregular migrants, except in emergencies, and allows national universities to charge tuition fees to temporary migrants. Human rights and migrant-rights organizations have criticized the decree, arguing that the executive bypassed Congress and failed to justify the issue as necessary and urgent. They note that previous legislation resulted from broad social dialogue and was unanimously approved in both chambers and was widely praised as effective until now.

Sources: Boletin Oficial, Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales, BBC, Pagina 12