Planning Tools
Interactive tools built specifically for British people planning a move to Argentina. Use them alongside the guides to organise your thinking, track your progress, and estimate costs before you commit to a flight or a flat.
A generic budget calculator will happily tell you that Buenos Aires costs half what London costs — and then hide the fact that the exchange rate it used was already nine months out of date, that it ignored prepaga healthcare, and that it priced a flat in a neighbourhood no British expat actually lives in. These tools exist because we got tired of correcting that kind of output. Each one is wired to the problems British applicants hit first: sequencing apostilled UK paperwork against Migraciones deadlines, stress-testing a monthly budget at the real parallel exchange rate, and keeping track of what has been translated versus what is still sitting on a kitchen table in Surrey.
Route Planner
Map out your move timeline from UK departure to Argentine settlement across the months that matter most. The planner walks you through the realistic sequence — ACRO police certificate first, then apostille, then birth and marriage certificates, then the visa application itself — and flags the steps that can run in parallel against the ones that genuinely block each other. It outputs a calendar view you can work backwards from your preferred arrival date.
Customisable by city and lifestyleBudget Planner
Calculate a monthly cost of living for Buenos Aires, Mendoza, or Córdoba using current ARS figures with a GBP conversion at the dólar MEP rate rather than the fantasy official rate. Inputs cover rent by neighbourhood and flat size, weekly supermarket spend, prepaga healthcare premiums by age band, transport, and realistic eating-out and leisure allowances. The output is a monthly total in pounds with a breakdown you can adjust line by line.
Checklist with progress trackingPaperwork Checker
Track which UK documents need apostilling at the Legalisation Office, which need a certified Spanish translation by a traductor público in Buenos Aires, and which stage each one is at. The checker lists every document Migraciones typically requests for the main visa categories, flags the ones with a short validity window once issued, and warns you if your proposed submission order will leave a document expired by the time it reaches the queue.
How to Use These Tools
The three tools are designed to be used in sequence, roughly six months out from your target arrival date. Start with the Route Planner to confirm you are planning a move you can actually execute on the timeline you have in mind — if the planner tells you an ACRO certificate plus apostille plus translation will eat ten of your available twelve weeks, you need to know that before you book the flight rather than after. Then open the Budget Planner to stress-test the numbers against real rents and a realistic dólar MEP conversion, and adjust your target neighbourhood until the monthly total is one you can live with. Finally, once you are two to three months from filing with Migraciones, the Paperwork Checker takes over as your day-to-day tracker for which documents are in hand, which are still at the Legalisation Office, and which are waiting on a traductor público.
These tools are for planning and orientation. For case-specific advice on immigration proceedings, tax obligations, or property transactions, consult a qualified professional who can look at the specifics of your situation.
Based on Real Data, Not Made-up Averages
The numbers behind these tools come from British applicants who have actually completed the process recently, not from a third-party data feed scraped from somewhere. Rents are calibrated against the current Zonaprop and Argenprop listings we review each quarter for the guides. Healthcare premiums use the published prepaga bands from Swiss Medical, OSDE, and Galeno. Apostille fees come directly from the gov.uk Legalisation Office schedule. Visa fees and Migraciones timelines track the current DNM requisitos pages and are re-checked whenever we update the underlying guide. When a number is uncertain we show a range rather than pretending a single figure is gospel.