Key Benefits:
AGREES
Law 26,777
Approve the Agreement on Free Visas for Students and Teachers of the States Parties to Mercosur. Sanctioned: October 31, 2012 Enacted: November 14, 2012
The Senate and Chamber of Deputies of the Argentine Nation, meeting in Congress, etc., are sanctioned by law:
ARTICLE 1-APPROVE THE AGREEMENT ON FREE VISAS FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF THE STATES PARTS OF MERCOSUR, signed in the city of Córdoba -REPUBLIC ARGENTINA-on July 20, 2006, consisting of FOUR (4) articles, whose Authenticated photocopy is part of this law.
ARTICLE 2 °-Commune to the national executive branch.
GIVEN IN THE SESSION HALL OF THE ARGENTINE CONGRESS, IN BUENOS AIRES, THE THIRTIES AND THE
ONE OF OCTOBER OF TWO THOUSAND TWELVE.
-REGISTERED UNDER NO 26,777-
BELOVED BOUDOU. -JULIAN A. DOMINGUEZ. -Juan H. Estrada. -Gervasio Bozzano.
AGREEMENT ON FREE VISAS FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS
FROM THE STATES PARTIES TO MERCOSUR
The Republic of Argentina, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic
of Uruguay, States Parties to MERCOSUR.
CONSIDERING: the Treaty of Asunción, signed on 26 March 1991 and the Protocol of Ouro Preto,
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on the institutional structure of MERCOSUR, signed on 17 December 1994.
CONSCIOUS: of the significant advances of MERCOSUR, in the area of consular cooperation, with
(a) the harmonization of consular relations with the political and economic objectives of the
integration.
AGREED:
Article 1
Holders of valid passports issued by the State Party of their nationality shall benefit from
the granting of free visas when applying for residence, in the territory of another of the States
Parties, with the aim of performing, solely, any of the following activities in a temporary manner:
(a) to pursue undergraduate or graduate studies in universities or officially educational establishments
recognised in the recipient country;
(b) to pursue secondary studies in the field of exchange programmes of government institutions
and non-governmental officially recognised in the receiving country;
(c) carrying out teaching or research activities in education establishments or universities
officially recognised in the recipient country.
Article 2
The benefit provided for in Article 1 shall also apply to family members who are dependent on persons in
the above.
Article 3
Parties may at any time denounce the Present Agreement by written notification
addressed to the Depositary, who shall notify the other States Parties. The complaint will produce its effects
sixty (60) days after the notification.
Article 4
This Agreement shall enter into force thirty (30) days after the deposit of the instrument of ratification
by the fourth State Party of MERCOSUR.
The Republic of Paraguay shall be the depository of this Agreement and of the respective instruments of
ratification, and the dates of the deposits of those instruments shall be notified to the other States Parties
and the entry into force of the Agreement, as well as sending them duly authentic copies thereof.
SIGNED in the city of Cordoba, Argentina, on the twentieth day of July 2006, in a
original, in the Spanish and Portuguese languages, both texts being equally authentic.
Date of publication: 19/11/2012
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