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Samantha
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| Each INAM office has their own thing going on as far as speed, efficiency, and rules. Here an FM3 gets done in about 10 days, no matter if it be a work permit or for retirees, and it's quite a busy office. |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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What do you mean by this? In DF, you go to the airport office on your way out, if you've overstayed your visa, or to migra HQ in Polanco - an upscale district full of foreigners and embassies. Nothing out of the ordinary. Is it different where you are? |
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MO39
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Location: El ombligo de la Rep�blica Mexicana
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| GueroPaz wrote: |
| Well, if we're telling lifetime stories about tourist visas and inmigracion officers.... I could tell some amazing stories about human rights observers in Chiapas, after the Acteal massacre, being given five or seven days, and how I had to enter way down at Tekal Uman to get 90 days. Or, how we nearly got deported, and some really nasty ladies in two of the inmigracion offices in Chiapas, or my 4.5 hour interrogation, or getting pulled off a first class bus between Comitan and San Cristobal, or the illegal checkpoints in the conflict area, or the officer who asked us if we knew a certain founder of the Anabaptist movement in 1525, or the names of the mesa directiva of Las Abejas..... But that was then and there. Glad to hear they've gotten better. |
GueroPaz, Did all of these unpleasant experiences happen to you only in the aftermath of the Acteal massacre, or did they take place during different trips to Chiapas? |
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Samantha
Joined: 25 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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| What do you mean by this? In DF, you go to the airport office on your way out, if you've overstayed your visa, or to migra HQ in Polanco - an upscale district full of foreigners and embassies. Nothing out of the ordinary. Is it different where you are? |
I wrote that tongue-in-cheek, because it's obviously not a "special" office. It's the Immigration office.
I might add here though, after reading comments above, that a Tourist Card (FMT) is renewable up to 180 days maximum at the main Immigration office you mention, but it is really not a wise idea to overstay it and then pop into Immigration at the airport after the fact. They don't look kindly upon admission of that sort of thing (knowingly being in the country illegally) and fines are in order on a per diem basis.
If you get to the airport and discover you have lost your tourist card that's a different matter, however, still be prepared for a tongue-lashing while they issue a new one and collect the same amount from you as you would have paid to get it done before your expiry. The airport Immigration office accomplishes the stamping of FM3's and FM2's as rightful holders come and go. That's how they track those documents and the time permitted out of Mexico on an FM2. |
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GueroPaz
Joined: 07 Sep 2007
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Location: Thailand or Mexico
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:35 am Post subject: |
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| So - pardon me for asking again - if I come next year, should I get an FM2, or an FM3, from the Houston Consulate? Should I ask for a rentista visa for six months or a year, and tell them up front I'll be changing it to a independiente visa after I get to the interior? |
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Samantha
Joined: 25 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 12:54 am Post subject: |
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| An FM3 (Rentista) is valid for a year. The Consulate won't care what you plan to do with it in Mexico, aside from register it. Your INAM office in Mexico will tell you what THEY require of you to get the work endorsement added. |
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Prof.Gringo
Joined: 07 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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| I'll be flying into DF on Friday. I will let you guys know what happens. Since I won't be needing the full 180 days, I'm just going to wait and see what INM gives me. I will going to Peru after 10 days in Mexico and when I come back in January I will need a 180 days and we'll see what I get then. |
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Mateja
Joined: 12 Mar 2007
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Location: Mexico
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 2:55 am Post subject: |
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| As far as I know, you can get a tourist visa for 90 days first and then you can ask for another 90 days. I got it automaticly, no questions, just had to pay 237 pesos I think, but when it expires, you cant ask for additional days, you have to leave a country, if you dont have other type of permission staying here, or you are ilegal in Mexico. |
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MO39
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| Mateja wrote: |
| As far as I know, you can get a tourist visa for 90 days first and then you can ask for another 90 days. I got it automaticly, no questions, just had to pay 237 pesos I think, but when it expires, you cant ask for additional days, you have to leave a country, |
It's been mentioned in another thread that, as of a few months ago, everyone coming into Mexico is being automatically given 180 days on their tourist card. It is still true that once you''ve used up these days, you must leave the country and then get a new card when you re-enter. |
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Mateja
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