The Consulate's responsibilities include:
- Guiding you on matters of legal and notarial assistance.
- Assisting individuals who have been in accidents or are facing serious health issues. Under no circumstances does this assistance involve financial disbursement by the Consul or the Argentine Foreign Ministry.
- Informing relatives or close contacts about accidents, deaths, or disasters.
- Taking an interest in detained nationals.
- Ensuring the legal defense of Argentine citizens, inquiring about their legal situation, their health, and ensuring dignified conditions of hygiene and accommodation for detainees.
- Handling the interests of nationals in matters of inheritance due to death.
- Safeguarding the interests of Argentine children and adolescents in vulnerable situations abroad.
- At the request of judicial authorities or immediate family members, and exclusively for humanitarian purposes, attempting to locate individuals through local authorities.
- Issuing passports, performing notarial acts, and legalizing documents.
- Granting travel permits for minors with the legal consent of their legal guardians.
- Processing nationality options for children of native Argentinians born abroad.
- Handling Argentine identity documentation (updates, duplicate IDs, change of address, etc.).
- Allowing the use of the consular office's postal address for receiving private correspondence.
The Consulate's responsibilities do not include:
- Being involved in legal proceedings or covering the costs of legal processes involving Argentine citizens in civil, commercial, criminal, labor, etc., cases.
- Interceding on your behalf if you break or do not respect local laws (which may differ significantly from Argentine law depending on the country).
- Providing you with treatment different from that given to nationals of the country in hospitals or prisons.
- Performing tasks that belong to travel agencies, airlines, banks, law firms, moving companies, postal services, etc.
- Providing tickets or means for you to return to the Republic or continue traveling to another location, except in very special circumstances of proven indigence or extreme vulnerability that warrant repatriation, under strict compliance with certain requirements.
- Providing money or covering your expenses (bills for food, transportation, lodging, legal services, medical services, or any other type).
- Handling local authorities' processes for residence permits, work permits, visas for Argentinians, etc.
- Acting as a guarantor or surety.
- Providing money for medical expenses, hospitalization, surgeries, or medical repatriation.
- Paying for the costs of repatriating the ashes or remains of Argentine citizens who have died abroad: these are the responsibility of contracted insurance or the family members.