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Samantha · Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 2038 Location: Mexican Riviera

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.

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

MO39 · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject:

Samantha · Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 2038 Location: Mexican Riviera

Guy wrote:

GueroPaz · Joined: 07 Sep 2007 Posts: 216 Location: Thailand or Mexico

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?

Samantha · Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 2038 Location: Mexican Riviera

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.

Prof.Gringo · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 6:33 pm Post subject:

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.

Mateja · Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 16 Location: Mexico

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.

MO39 · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:29 am Post subject:

Mateja · Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 16 Location: Mexico

There is no rule.

I came here in August to DF, asked for 6 months, got 3.

Another teacher came in August to GDL, asked for 6 months, got 6.

And anotherone came in September to GDL, asked for 6 months as well, got 1 only...

MO39 · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:42 am Post subject:

I made a slight error in my previous post - this new policy (which began sometime in September, I believe) is discussed at the beginning of this thread.

Mateja · Joined: 12 Mar 2007 Posts: 16 Location: Mexico

Oh, sorry, then my mistake, I didnt check it Embarassed

Samantha · Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 2038 Location: Mexican Riviera

The idea was announced back in March, but is not uniformly automatic. Mateja's post tends to indicate that it is still the same as ever...at the discretion of the Immigration Officer on duty. This is what I've heard recently here too, and also from friends in other parts of Mexico.

I am curious to know how it came to be that someone would be granted only one month. There must be a story there.

Ruffle the cat · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 32 Location: different counties

Went to Mexico Sept. 24 2007 was given a tourist visa for 90 days. This was DF airport.

Would like to get 160 days next time, but after all the years I spent in Mexico and all the hoops I jumped through to get my FM3 I doubt things will change much no matter what the President says.

Prof.Gringo · Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:13 pm Post subject:

I just got back in DF on Friday. INM gave me 180 days. No problem. I didn't even ask, it's just what they gave me.

I am pretty sure that if you ask for 180 they will give you 180 days. That's what I always did before Calderon changed the policy.