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jfurgers · Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 442 Location: Mexico City

How many have registered with your embassy upon moving to Mexico? I was reading on a site that U.S. citizens (or whatever country one is from) should let the embassy know your address and phone number once you're settled in.

Is this important??

jillford64 · Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 397 Location: Sin City

Never registered with the US embassy. Maybe if I had been living in Mexico City, I would have done it.

MO39 · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:43 pm Post subject:

It's probably not a bad idea. I did it not long ago on-line.

jillford64 · Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 397 Location: Sin City

My meaning being that I could have gone to the embassy. I did not know you could do it online.

MELEE · Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject:

I purposely did not register when I arrived here in Mexico.
When I was studying in Chile the study abroad program registered me and I got all these obnoixous alerts. "Stay home today as there are anticipated protests" "The KFC in X area of town got a bomb threat, do not visit any KFCs." Um, whatever!

But then in 2003 I had to renew my passport. At the embassy they made me fill in a form with my Mexican address--so if they ever needed to contact me. One of the things I like about living where I do is my total LACK of contact with the US government. Rolling Eyes

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

I made a point of doing it. There are plenty of good reasons for registering. The Canadian Gov't has a fan-out "Warden" system, so that when there is some impending danger (hurricane bearing down) or sudden crisis (9-11), we are notified by phone, email or any other possible way. I once got an invitation to a very cool cocktail party aboard one of the Canadian "war" ships that was in our port on a training mission. They had Canadian beer, salmon, cakes in the shape of beavers(!!) etc, onboard. Without being registered that invitation wouldn't have happened. It inspired many of my fellow Canadians to register, but alas there have been no more lavish cocktail parties in the government budget.

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

jillford64 · Joined: 15 Feb 2006 Posts: 397 Location: Sin City

Guy, I have no idea if there is a consulate in Morelia! Never occurred to me to figure that out.

geaaronson · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 948 Location: Mexico City

Also, should you get run over by a collectivo or cambi the American Embassy can break the bad news that you are sitting in the hospital with two broken legs to your loved ones.

jfurgers · Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 442 Location: Mexico City

Thanks for all of the info! I think I'll register after I get settled.

mapache · Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 202 Location: Villahermosa

As a US citizen. I no longer trust my government enough to register. I left the US so I don't have to pay taxes to support a war I believe was neither justified nor is moral.

The US State Department, for example, still says Chiapas is too dangerous because of the Zapatistas based on something that happened in San Cristobal over 12 years ago. I feel safer here than in LA and a lot freer, too,l without the Orwellian intrusions and propaganda of the neocons. Tony Garza's condescending attitude toward Mexico and Mexicans reflects Bush's delusional arrogance toward the rest of the world.

Paranoia among Americans against their government is just one of the sad side effects of 8 years of Cheney's Jesuslandia.