I exited Uruguay from Colonia via the ferry to Buenos Aires with a vehicle in May 2010. I was not asked by any Uruguay officials for my UY TVIP. I ran around the Colonia ferry terminal trying to give my UY TVIP to an official who would take it, but no one would even look at it. They all said not to worry about it. So clearly there is no tracking mechanism to determine if my vehicle had left UY on time or not (UY gives 12 month TVIPs). I was given a ARG TVIP upon arrival in Buenos Aires at the ferry terminal there. ARG had a computer program into which they inputted the information about my vehicle. The program had some kind of unexpected problem with it as it was unable to print the TVIP, so the official hand wrote the TVIP after multiple attempts to print the document. I have no idea if the information was saved into a computer database in ARG or if the program was just a template for attempting to print the TVIP. I would really like to know if that is the case. What is stopping someone from creating their own TVIPs?
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