Sarah,
What you need to pay is not an entrance fee, but reciprocity fee (i.e.,
you charge us, we charge you).
As you correctly note, ou cannot pay it in Argentina but have to pay it
in advance with a credit card.
All of the relevant information is here:
<https://reciprocidad.provincianet.com.ar/>
(which was linked from: <http://www.ietf.org/meeting/95/index.html>).
P.S.: FWIW, Mercosur is a group of countries in South America (wikipedia
knows the details)... but the reciprocity fee has nothing to do with that.
Please let me know if I can be of any further help.
Thanks,
Fernando
On 12/17/2015 06:31 PM, Sarah Banks wrote:
The Canadian Government tells me that I need to pay an entrance "fee" prior
to arriving in Argentina. I cannot pay it IN Argentina, or at the border.
Someone else on the *hotel threads has pointed this out too, for US and AU
citizens as well. Has anyone figured out WHERE on the website to make this
payment? I found a spot, tucked painfully away, where you make your VISA
payment, but not for this fee/tax.
I also can't quite figure out which countries are MEROCUR (and hence pay
$200) versus Non-MERCOSUR (and pay a whopping $600). Perhaps it's the eh in
my Queens English, since the entire "english" version of the website isn't in
english. If you figure it out, would you kindly drop me a note with how you
did so? Thanks ever so much. ;)
Cheers
Sarah
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