Eligibility quiz
In each of the past 12 months, did your investments or bank accounts have an average monthly balance of at least 11,460 UMA?
Benefits
Benefits for youBenefits for you
Live in Mexico
You can live legally in Mexico for your authorized stay, up to four years.
Your personal safety must be protected, whatever your immigration status.
Study in Mexico
You can attend public or private schools under the usual admission rules.
Work with permission
With a job offer, you can seek permission to work for pay.
Your permission is tied to the approved offer or activity.
Travel in and out
You can leave and return to Mexico as often as you like while your residence card is valid.
To return, you need your card and a valid passport or travel document.
Bring your belongings
You can bring your belongings into Mexico under the applicable rules.
Use public healthcare
You can receive public or private care, and emergency care needed to save your life is free, whatever your immigration status.
Your residence card does not automatically include health insurance.
How to apply
From outside MexicoFrom outside Mexico
Find your consulate
Find the Mexican consulate serving the place where you live. If you apply outside your country of nationality, the consulate must accept your application and you must be lawfully present there.
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Download the application form
Get the Mexican visa application form from the visa portal or your consulate.
Get the formFill in the form
Complete the visa application form truthfully and sign it.
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Gather your documents
Prepare the required documents for the consulate and the immigration office.
See required documentsRegister online
If your consulate requires it, register and upload your documents through the visa portal. Some consulates ask you to upload them while booking your appointment instead.
Open the visa portalBook an appointment
Create an account in the appointment system and book a visit to your consulate. Upload your documents while booking if the system asks for them.
Book an appointmentGo to your appointment
Bring your completed form and required documents to the consulate, give your fingerprints and attend your interview. Pay the visa fee there in the currency the consulate accepts.
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Wait for the decision
Wait for the consulate's decision and respond if it asks for more information. The stated maximum is 10 business days, subject to the interview and any lawful request for further information.
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Receive your visa
Once approved, receive your visa from the consulate. It is valid for one entry to Mexico within the visa's validity period, which is up to 180 days.
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Once in MexicoOnce in Mexico
Enter Mexico
Enter Mexico with your visa and request and keep the entry document marked for exchange, or canje. You will need it to apply for your residence card.
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Find your immigration office
Find the immigration office that serves your address in Mexico. You must apply to exchange your visa for a residence card within 30 calendar days after entry.
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Fill in the form
Complete the migration form for exchanging your visa for a temporary resident card.
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Pay the card fee
Pay the residence-card fee and keep proof of payment to submit with your application.
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Submit your card application
Within 30 calendar days after entering Mexico, submit your completed migration form, required documents and proof of payment to the immigration office serving your address.
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Wait for the decision
Wait for the immigration office to decide your card application and respond if it asks for more information. The stated maximum decision period is 15 business days.
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Collect your residence card
Once approved, collect and sign your temporary resident card at the immigration office. The card lets you live in Mexico as a temporary resident and is ordinarily issued for one year from your entry.
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Documents needed
Required to applyRequired to apply
Passport and copy
Bring your valid passport or another internationally valid identity and travel document, along with a copy. You will need the original and a copy again when you exchange your visa for a residence card.
Photographs
Bring one recent passport photograph for your visa application, in the format your consulate requests. For your residence card exchange, bring three child-size photographs: two facing forward and one showing your right profile, with a white background, forehead and ears uncovered, and no glasses or earrings; they must not be instant photographs.
Application forms
Complete and sign the Mexican visa application form for your consulate. For the residence card exchange after you arrive in Mexico, complete the migration application form.
Employment or pension records *
Bring original records of your employment or pension, along with the matching bank deposit records or payslips and copies. They must show monthly income after taxes and charges of more than 680 UMA for each of the six months before you apply.
* Only if you use employment or pension income to show you can support yourself.
Savings or investment records *
Bring original bank or investment records, or electronic records with a digital certificate, covering each of the 12 months before you apply. They must show a monthly average balance of at least 11,460 UMA for each month; your consulate may ask for monthly statements, copies or bank certification.
* Only if you use savings or investments to show you can support yourself.
Proof of current residence *
Bring proof of where you currently live. Your consulate can tell you what it accepts.
* Only if your consulate asks for it.
Proof of lawful stay *
Bring the original document showing that you are allowed to stay in the country where you apply. Your consulate can tell you what it accepts.
* Only if you apply in a country where you are not a citizen.
Mexico entry record *
Bring your valid entry document or record from when you entered Mexico. Check that it is marked for the visa-to-residence-card exchange.
* Only if you are exchanging your visa for a residence card.
Considerations
Things to think aboutThings to think about
Residence and work duties
To keep your residence, you must renew it and pay the fee while you still meet the conditions of your stay.
Tell the immigration office within 90 days of a change in your marital status, citizenship, address or workplace.
You may work for pay only with permission and within its terms.
Property transaction requirements
For a property transaction before a notary or authorized broker, you must prove your lawful stay.
You must also make any legally required declarations giving up certain rights.
Residence can end
Your residence ends or is cancelled if it expires without renewal, you declare a permanent departure, or you obtain another immigration status.
It can also be cancelled for false information or documents, or if your background threatens national or public safety.
Losing refugee or other protection, or another legal reason, can also end it.
Discuss
Online communitiesOnline communities
Expats in Mexico
English Facebook group for people living in Mexico interested in Mexican visas
Request to joinGetting Mexican Residency (the ORIGINAL)
English Facebook group for people living in Mexico interested in Mexican visas
Join on FacebookInto Mexico We Go
English Facebook group for people living in Mexico interested in Mexican visas
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