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[Samantha]

You should pay a visit in person to your state's Exterior Relations office to obtain the forms and go over the requirements and procedure. If you only have a short time (I think less than 6 months) left until your FM3 renewal date, you may have to wait until after that to apply, so remember to ask that question during your visit.

[MELEE]

I'm actually in the process of becoming a citizen. You should definately go to the local Relationes Exteriores Office, but you can also now get straight dope on the internet, I linked to a portal on a thread a couple of weeks ago. However, the problem is the people working in your local office might not have the straight dope themselves!

You do "officially" renounce your citizenship, but they don't take your passport off you, so your home country doesn't know that you've done it. The lady at the office told me it was just a formality and that it didn't really mean anything.

One thing that wasn't on that other information quoted is via marriage to a Mexican. I am both the wife and mother of Mexicans, but I'm getting my citizenship via the wife route. The requirements, costs, and time are different. If you are the parent of a Mexican, it costs more and falls into the category where the President gives out citizenship in a ceremony once a year in Mexico City. So you have to wait months and you have to go to Mexico City. You can start the process the day after the child is registered if you want. If you are the spouce of a Mexican, have been married more than 2 years (so its not immediate) and have lived in Mexico for the last six months, it only takes 2 weeks to get citizenship and it costs less. You don't "get" to go to the ceremony with the president, but I'm not at all interested in doing that anyways. I'm just SICK of the immigration office. I've had enough, that's my motivation for becoming a citizen.

Oh and on the FM2 side of it, I choose not to get an FM2 but to get a new FM3 at the end of my first 5 years because of the travel restrictions it puts on you. (You're supposed to show you are interested in settling in Mexico) But at that time I was just a few months away from my wedding so the road-to-citizenship aspects of it didn't matter at all to me.

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[Samantha]

Melee, my experience applying to naturalize as a spouse is different than you describe. You mean you will have your naturalization confirmation letter in just 2 weeks? That sounds incredibly fast for the Government since the paperwork must go through Mexico City. Another friend of mine in Jalisco just went through the "spouse" route and his took months as well.

About the Internet application......the forms are apparently obsolete and you will be given new ones in person...so save the trouble of filling them out online.