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wildchild · Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 519 Location: Puebla 2009 - 2010

initially filed on the 29th of July in Puebla, Puebla... just got my FM3 today...

Shocked

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

Ooops! But as a consolation to newbies here - it doesn't always take so long!

wildchild · Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 519 Location: Puebla 2009 - 2010

notamiss · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:17 am Post subject:

gregd75 · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:49 am Post subject:

If you consider that Mexicans have to book an appointment just to visit the US consulate 3 months in advance in order for them to get a visa, I don't think your experience was actually too bad.

Mexicans have a lot worse to deal with. The phonecall to book their appointment is a premium rate number, just to be given a timeslot (I know this can be done via the internet). They must wait for hours and hours on the day of the appointment only to be treated as a suspect by the person 'interviewing' them and the visa may or may not be issued!

I got my visa in Guadalajara in June. I arrived at 9am- I didnt wait even 2 minutes. I submitted all my papers, got a receipt and was told to come back ten days later. When I returned I went to the collection window, again with noone waiting and picked up my FM3! Fantastic service and experience!!

I think it really really depends on the papers you submit and the office and their workload.

But, all in all you did better than a Mexican having to go through the awful US visa experience!!!

wildchild · Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 519 Location: Puebla 2009 - 2010

yeah...i definitely did not do the gringo dance... i'm feeling the buena ondas! Wink

i guess by pressure, i wanted to say that i went in two weeks after the due date (i was kinda waiting to hear from them...), then they told me it was approved, gave me more papers to fill out, more money to pay, which i took care of the following week....

so that's a total of 3 weeks that i sat on it....

Lucy110 · Joined: 10 Aug 2009 Posts: 4 Location: California

congrats on getting your FM3 and a question: do you really need to show a $1,000 month deposit in your bank account every month to get the document.

I was in school last year, so obviously not getting paychecks. I wish I had someone to deposit $1000 a month into my account but sadly no dice. Does this mean I shouldn't bother looking for work in Mexico (don't want to work illegally, at least not for more than a few months...)

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

RE: Above

Absolutely not true!

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

Lucy, can it be you're getting the requirements for a financially self-sufficient visa, FM3 Visitante Rentista, confused with an FM3, with permission to work?

There is no requirement in the later case for a minimum monthly income that I've ever heard of; whereas, the former requires either an income stream, for example from a pension, or money in the bank to show that you can live on your own resources, without working, for one year. Here, in Cancun, there are a great many people living in the Visitante Rentista status, based not on a pension of any kind, but on cash deposits in the bank from which they can draw to live.

wildchild · Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 519 Location: Puebla 2009 - 2010

yeah, that's it. it's for retirees. not us. not yet. Wink

chenn0 · Joined: 03 Nov 2009 Posts: 34

How hard is it to get an FM3 as an American? Would it do me some good to go to the Mexican Embassy that I live by to get info or would they laugh at me and tell me to get out?

wildchild · Joined: 14 Nov 2005 Posts: 519 Location: Puebla 2009 - 2010

you get it here, in Mex.

you enter on a tourist visa, then apply to change your status.

Prof.Gringo · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:42 pm Post subject: Not much longer!

Prof.Gringo · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:44 pm Post subject: Visas?

notamiss · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:25 pm Post subject: Re: Not much longer!