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Tretyakovskii · Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Posts: 462 Location: Cancun, Mexico

There appear to be major changes to the immigration laws, taking effect soon, but I didn't see any discussion of it on this forum.

http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5190774&fecha=25/05/2011

The push to get people out of the temporary resident status and into permanent resident status after four years, which started last year, now seems to have been written in the law. There are many other procedural and substantive changes written into the new law, which will now have to be supplemented by rules written by each office of INM, such as establishment of a point system.

[Edited to delete what may have been an error picked up from an article I read about it.]

BadBeagleBad · Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 10:11 pm Post subject: Re: Have I missed something?

[quote="Tretyakovskii"]There appear to be major changes to the immigration laws, taking effect soon, but I didn't see any discussion of it.

http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5190774&fecha=25/05/2011

Four year long temporary residence visas, and inmigrado status based on "points", are some of the apparent changes. There are others, but these are the ones that jumped out at me.[/quote

I skimmed though it - did you actually read it all - and didn�t see either of those things. How far down were they? That is a lot of stuff to read.

Dragonlady · Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 3:09 am Post subject:

Isla Guapa · Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 3:42 am Post subject:

Thanks for posting that link, dragonlady. I've heard a bit about the new laws but haven't had the energy to read the entire document all the way through. This explains the most important details in Spanish and English, making the changes easy to understand, m�s o menos.

Tretyakovskii · Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Posts: 462 Location: Cancun, Mexico

Long as the law is, much of it has to do with the legal requirements for the drafting of laws in Mexico: don't get discouraged with the skimming process, Isla, and I think you'll hit paydirt.

The yucaland article, while useful as an introduction, can lead to some misimpressions (I could be wrong about even that!), and there is probably no good substitute for looking over the law itself. Reading the article made me think the temp resident permit was to be issued for four years, but looking again at the law I'm not so sure that's the case, as in the section cited by the article it reads,

"Autoriza al extranjero para permanecer en el pa�s por un tiempo no mayor a cuatro a�os...," which may just mean that you are forced into permanent residency after four renewals, as is the current practice in many INM offices.

Maybe there is other language in the new law that makes clear which is meant, but I haven't gotten that far in reading it, either!

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

Tretyakovskii · Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Posts: 462 Location: Cancun, Mexico

Dragonlady · Posted: Mon May 30, 2011 11:26 pm Post subject:

MotherF · Posted: Tue May 31, 2011 4:12 pm Post subject:

I'm in the middle of renewing my FM3 at the moment and no one said anything about not being able to--I'm an odd ball, this is my 3rd renewal of my 3rd FM3. Like DL said, after the max renewals on the first one--I applied for a "nueva estancia" which was a whole new FM3, then when that one expired, I did it again. Razz

Why? mostly ablivience. I'm just not ready to commit to Mexico. Laughing

If I'm pushed to become immigrado, I would just persue naturalization instead.

Phil_K · Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 2041 Location: A World of my Own

Why is everyone so attached to their FM3? Surely it is better to push along your immigration status to more or less wash your hands of the whole charade. I've done my last refrenda of my FM2 and am looking forward to applying for inmigrado status. Money doesn't come in to it, and the travel restrictions are hardly... well, restrictive.

Isla Guapa · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:24 am Post subject:

MotherF · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:31 pm Post subject:

We've been over this before.
When I came to the end of my first FM3, I had just finished 5 years at my job, and at my job our 7th year is a sabbatical. In the traditional sense of the word--a year to rest and renew yourself. No professional obligation, but full pay! I was considering various options on how to spend that year and a couple of those options invovled spending the entire year outside of Mexico. So it didn't make sense to go FM2. Then at the end of my second second FM3 money was VERY tight right around the time for my renewal, and I was by then eligible to apply for naturalization, if I so desired. So those two things made an FM2 unattractive.
I am seriously considering naturalization. I have been for some time. I like to take my time with big decisions. I am also somewhat ambivilent about the whole thing.

Tretyakovskii · Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Posts: 462 Location: Cancun, Mexico