Giving birth in Argentina for families from Uzbekistan: visa, citizenship and the baby’s documents

In short

Uzbek citizens need a consular visa to enter Argentina — without one you will not be allowed to board. The consulate grants up to 90 days, and Migraciones can extend that once. Uzbekistan does not recognise a foreign citizenship held by its citizens, while a child born in Argentina becomes Argentine automatically.

• Plan the visa early: there is no Argentine embassy in Tashkent, and you need an appointment and an in-person interview.
• For Uzbekistan the child will be an Uzbek citizen only; according to guidance published on gov.uz, if by age 21 the person has not renounced a foreign citizenship acquired at birth, Uzbek citizenship is lost.
• Uzbekistan has no embassy in Argentina — decide before you fly where you will register the baby and apply for the baby’s passport.

Entering Argentina: the visa

Uzbekistan is on the list of countries whose citizens need a visa for Argentina. You apply for a tourist visa at the Argentine consulate covering your place of legal residence: Argentina has no embassy in Tashkent, and the ambassador accredited to Uzbekistan has traditionally been based in Moscow. Check with the consulate where residents of Uzbekistan can currently apply before you fix your dates.

• Do not buy tickets before the visa is issued — Argentina’s own foreign ministry says the same. Meeting the requirements does not guarantee a visa.
• Apply around weeks 18–22: flying is easiest at 28–32 weeks, and appointments and processing take time.
• State the purpose of your trip honestly. Migration Law 25.871 has a separate transitory category for patients receiving medical treatment; ask the consulate whether a tourist or a medical-treatment visa fits and whether a letter from the clinic is needed.
• Once your stay has expired it can no longer be extended — you only get an exit permit (habilitación de salida) valid for 10 days. Map out your dates: arrival, due date, the baby’s documents, the residency filing.
• DNU 366/2025 introduces a health-insurance declaration on entry (it applies once implementing rules are in place). Carry a policy for the whole stay; tourist policies usually do not cover childbirth.

If you hold a valid US visa, ask the consulate about the AVE electronic travel authorisation: it is not available to every nationality, so do not count on it without confirmation.

Flights and connections

There are no direct flights from Tashkent to Buenos Aires. Families usually fly with one or two connections via Istanbul, Dubai or Doha; some flights to Buenos Aires make an intermediate stop in Brazil.

• Turkey, the UAE and Qatar are on the list of visa-free destinations for Uzbek citizens published by Uzbekistan’s foreign ministry. Check the length of stay and conditions before you travel.
• Brazil is not on that list. Transit without leaving the international area usually needs no visa, but separate tickets, an airport change or a long layover with a trip into the city will require one.
• Routing via Europe works if you stay airside; changing terminals through passport control requires a visa. Ask your airline about the rules for the specific airport.
• Book a single ticket: if you miss a connection, the airline must rebook you.
• After 28 weeks airlines usually ask for a doctor’s letter, and close to 36 weeks they may refuse boarding.

Documents from Uzbekistan: apostille and translation

Uzbekistan and Argentina are both parties to the Hague Convention, so Uzbek documents need an apostille for Argentina — no consular legalisation. You can order the apostille online on my.gov.uz (Justice section, OneID login) for civil-registry, court and notarial documents. It usually takes about 2 working days, sometimes up to 10; in 2025 the fee was 0.18 BRV.

1. Marriage certificate — for the baby’s registration and the parents’ residency.
2. The parents’ birth certificates — for family-reunification residency.
3. Criminal record certificates for both parents, apostilled; check which service apostilles the Interior Ministry certificate when you order it. It must be recent (Migraciones usually accepts certificates no older than three months), so many families order it from Argentina through a representative.
4. Criminal record certificates from any other country where you lived for more than a year in the last three years.

In Argentina, documents are translated by a sworn translator (traductor público), and the Translators’ Association certifies the signature — see our article on sworn translation. There are few, if any, Uzbek translators in the Argentine register. If a document is in Uzbek only, ask us about the options in advance: for example, a notarised Russian translation in Uzbekistan with an apostille, followed by a sworn translation from Russian.

Latin spelling. Uzbek passports use the letters o‘ and g‘ and the digraphs sh and ch. Argentine systems often drop the apostrophe, so “G‘ulomov” becomes “Gulomov”. Decide how the baby’s surname will be spelled and keep it identical on the partida, the DNI and the future Uzbek passport. A patronymic with “o‘g‘li” or “qizi” has no separate field in Argentine documents; we discuss the options in “Patronymics in foreign documents”.

The Argentine path

The Argentine part is the same for everyone: birth at the clinic, birth registration at the Registro Civil (within 40 days by law), the baby’s DNI and passport, an apostille on the partida from Argentina’s foreign ministry, then the parents’ residency through family reunification on RaDEX, with a precaria while it is processed. Every step in order is in “Birth in Argentina: step by step”. A child born in Argentina is Argentine by birth and leaves the country on an Argentine document.

Uzbek citizenship for the baby

Under the 2020 Law on Citizenship (ZRU-610):

• if both parents are Uzbek citizens, the child is an Uzbek citizen by birth regardless of the place of birth;
• if one parent is a foreign national, the child acquires Uzbek citizenship on the application of the Uzbek parent or another legal representative;
• a foreign citizenship held by Uzbek citizens is not recognised: Uzbek authorities will treat the child as an Uzbek citizen only, and the Argentine passport will carry no weight there.

The key consequence. Guidance published on gov.uz explains that a person who acquired a foreign citizenship at birth loses Uzbek citizenship if they have not renounced the foreign one by age 21. Renouncing Argentine citizenship by birth is very difficult in practice, so by 21 the child will most likely have to choose. You should know this before the trip and discuss the details with the consulate or a lawyer.

Entering Uzbekistan. Uzbek citizens enter Uzbekistan on an Uzbek passport. Lawyers consider entry by a citizen on a foreign passport a violation, so it is better for the child to travel home with an Uzbek passport or a certificate of return issued by a consulate.

Where to apply. Uzbekistan has no embassy or consulate in Argentina. Its nearest presence in the region is through the embassy in Washington, whose consular district covers Brazil, Canada and Cuba. Argentina is not on that list, so before you fly ask the foreign ministry’s consular department which mission covers Argentina. Possible routes:

1. file with the mission responsible for Argentina (which often means travelling or sending originals);
2. register the baby after returning to Uzbekistan, with the apostilled and translated partida;
3. act through a representative with a power of attorney, where the specific procedure allows it.

Online options: the foreign ministry’s electronic consular services system lets you register temporarily with a consulate if you have been abroad for more than six months. You fill in a form and upload scans, and you get a reply within three days. Being registered makes it easier to get a passport and other services later.

Whichever route you choose, you will need the Argentine partida with an apostille and translation, the parents’ passports and the marriage certificate.

The baby’s Uzbek passport

• A biometric passport for travel abroad is issued for 2 years to a child under 1, and for 5 years from age 1 to 16.
• Citizens registered with a consulate can apply at a mission abroad. Timing depends on the diplomatic pouch; at the foreign ministry in Tashkent it takes about 10 working days.
• Until the Uzbek passport is ready, the baby travels on the Argentine one. Before a trip to Uzbekistan, sort out the entry document well in advance.
• To leave Argentina with only one parent, the child needs the other parent’s authorisation (from an Argentine notary or Migraciones). If both parents travel with the child, documents proving the relationship are enough.

If you stay in Argentina

Many families do not go home right after the birth: the parents get residency, the baby sees a paediatrician, and there is still business to handle at home. With no consulate in Buenos Aires, anything that cannot be done online has to go through a representative.

• Power of attorney before you fly. Sign a general or specific power of attorney at a notary in Uzbekistan for a relative: collecting certificates, apostilles, dealing with the civil registry and the Interior Ministry. What to include is in “Powers of attorney before departure”.
• Power of attorney from Argentina. You sign it before an Argentine notary (escribano) with an interpreter, get an apostille from Argentina’s foreign ministry, and have it translated in Uzbekistan.
• Keep access to OneID and my.gov.uz — and your Uzbek SIM card for SMS codes. Without them, online apostilles and certificates are out of reach.
• The parents’ passports. Check expiry dates before the trip. Renewing abroad without a local consulate takes a long time.
• Residency paperwork (criminal records, sometimes again at renewal) is easier to order through a representative: get scans first and the apostilled originals by courier.
• You can postpone the baby’s Uzbek registration and passport, but remember the age-21 rule and that travelling home without an Uzbek document gets complicated.

Common mistakes

• Buying non-refundable tickets before the visa is issued.
• Missing the extension window and ending up with only an exit permit.
• Flying via Brazil or Europe on separate tickets and being asked for a visa at the connection.
• Spelling the baby’s surname without the apostrophe in Argentina and with it in Uzbek documents.
• Arriving without an apostilled criminal record certificate and then waiting months for one by post.
• Assuming the child will “just have two passports”: for Uzbekistan a second citizenship does not exist, and that has consequences.

How we help

We check your documents before departure, help you prepare the visa file and work out the extension dates, and handle the birth, registration, the baby’s DNI and passport, and the parents’ residency. Full support is our Premium package, and the “Baby’s home-country documents” package ($290) takes care of registering the baby back home — see the after-birth packages. Rules for other countries are on Birth by country, and your budget is in the calculator.