Argentina document photos online

Most countries print three letters in the machine-readable zone of a passport; Argentina prints just one: the letter "D". This quirk dates back to early machine-readable standards and still sets the navy-blue Argentine booklet apart at any border scanner. The passport follows Mercosur design rules, carries a Phrygian-cap emblem and, since 2012, an embedded RFID chip with a holographic shadow portrait on the data page. With visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 168 destinations, it is one of the strongest documents in the Americas, granting Argentines smooth entry across most of Europe, Asia and the wider world.

• Passport code In the machine-readable zone of its passport, Argentina is identified by the single letter "D" rather than the usual three-letter ISO code, a rare holdover from early biometric-document standards.
• Passport power The Argentine passport ranks among the strongest in the Americas, offering visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 168 destinations on the 2025 Henley Passport Index (tied with San Marino).
• Citizenship Under a constitution dating to 1853, almost anyone born on Argentine soil becomes a citizen automatically, and foreigners can naturalize after just two years of residence, far shorter than the 5-15 years most countries demand.
• Security Since 2012 Argentine passports embed an RFID chip and a holographic "shadow" portrait on the data page, with the cover bearing the revolutionary Phrygian cap emblem under shared Mercosur design rules.
• Currency The 10,000-peso note launched in May 2024 to keep pace with triple-digit inflation features Maria Remedios del Valle, an Afro-Argentine heroine of the independence wars, on the country's banknotes.
• Banknotes Chronic inflation has driven Argentina up the denomination ladder so fast that within 2024 alone the 10,000-peso bill was overtaken by a new 20,000-peso note as the largest in circulation.
• Independence Argentina declared independence from Spain on 9 July 1816 at the Congress of Tucuman, and the date is still its national Independence Day.
• Geography Argentina holds the highest summit outside Asia: Mount Aconcagua in Mendoza province rises to about 6,961 metres, the tallest peak in both the Western and Southern Hemispheres.
• Demographics An estimated 30 million Argentines, roughly 62% of the population, claim some Italian ancestry, the legacy of the largest wave of post-colonial immigration to the country.