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Old Mar 3, 2016, 4:16 pm
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Efrem
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Originally Posted by Xyzzy
I'm not sure whether the Argentine reciprocity fee on US (and Canadian and Australian) citizens counts but it certainly shuld.
I was thinking of the same question in terms of the Chilean fee that I paid before it was eliminated in February 2014. I came down on the other side, though. This list measures freedom to travel, not of the cost of doing so. U.S. citizens could visit Chile freely without advance permission of any kind. Yes, they (we) had to pay a reciprocity fee, but they (we) also had to pay for plane tickets, food and lodging while in the country, and all the rest. I saw this as just one more expense to figure into the total cost.

(I leave for Chile again in three days. I now have a brand-new passport, so my previous entry permit would no longer be valid. Not complaining.)
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