Argentina

Ciudadanía por Inversión (DNU 366/2025) — collapsing in the courts

Would be direct naturalisation, bypassing the ordinary 2-year residence rule — but the investment threshold was never published, and the decree creating the whole track has now been ruled null by Argentina's top electoral court.

Who qualifies

• Would accredit to Argentina's immigration authority a "relevant investment" in the country, regardless of time resided — but this rests on the same DNU 366/2025 that the National Electoral Chamber (CNE) declared null on June 30, 2026, for unconstitutionally moving citizenship matters (a political-rights area reserved to Congress) into a presidential decree.
  DNU 366/2025, Art. 2
• Would be filed with a new Agencia de Programas de Ciudadanía por Inversión under the Ministry of Economy, which was to vet the investment and clear it with security and financial-intelligence authorities before recommending it to the immigration service — this agency's legal basis is now in doubt.
  Infobae, La Cámara Electoral anuló el DNU de Milei que transfería a Migraciones el otorgamiento de la ciudadanía argentina, June 30 2026

Whether you keep your U.S. citizenship depends on the route you take later.

This door stops short of a passport.

1. 2027
   Residence begins

   No permit term of its own; the clock runs on legal residence.

Time away

Two years of continuous residence immediately before applying, filed before a federal judge. The 2025 decree's rule that any trip abroad breaks the clock was struck down in court, and the electoral court annulled the decree's move of citizenship to the immigration service on 30 June 2026; keep trips short and documented until judges settle a reading.

Two passports

Yes. You keep your U.S. citizenship.

• Time on this program does not count toward permanent residence or citizenship; the family would need to switch to one that does.
• Not usable: no investment threshold was ever published, and the electoral court annulled the decree's transfer of citizenship to the executive on 30 June 2026.
• The official Ley 346 text on argentina.gob.ar still shows art. 2 as rewritten by DNU 366/2025 ('continuous and legal' residence, handled by Migraciones). After the 30 June 2026 ruling, cases went back to federal judges; the court text itself was not read, only press reports.
• Language and civics: Ley 346 sets no test; whether individual judges check Spanish is practice, not law.
• Before the decree, the Supreme Court (Ni I Hsing, 2009) held the 2 years need not be under a formal residence permit; from memory, not re-read today.
• Ley 346 asks for no renunciation of a former nationality; no official page stating dual citizenship outright was read.
• No official decision-time figure; federal court waits vary by district.