Renewing your resident card

It is very important to renew your residence card, if you let it expire you will be fine by immigration and depending on the timeyou let pass, you could lose your residence and you ´ll have to start the process all over again.

You can start one month prior to the expiration day shown in your card. Remember in Mexico the position of the days, month, year are diferent from other countries,. Here are in this order DD/MM/YYYY. Day, Month Year, so dont get confuse and stick to the expiration date in your card according to this order.

You need to go to the nearest immigration office with your passport,residence card, proof of address and paperwork and submit the renewal in time. You can make a one, two or three year renewal.It will take from 1 week up to a month, depending on the immigration office, to get the renewal done and have the new card.

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Working in Mexico

Do you want to work legally in Mexico and earn money for you and your family?  A working Visa makes it possible.  Applicants can work once authorized by immigration. Jobs like bartender, waiter, and others similar is highly probably that they are denied. Bacause more mexican can do it. Immigrations gives preference to nationals. But jobs like chef, administrator, real state, sales, etc are more lilkely to be accepted.

Here it´s the process:

  1. The process starts in Mexico. The company that wants to hire you has to submit a petition to the nearest Immigration office close or in the city you expected to work.
  2. Once authorized, immigration will give a letter stating their approval and you have to go to the nearst Mexican Consulate for an interview taking this document to the appointment. In the interview they ´ll double check you the information. that you know where your going to work, your position, the payment you are going to earn, etc. If everything match they will stick a visa in your passport and you have six months to enter Mexico.
  3. Once you enter Mexico, you have to go to the Immigration office and exchange your visa for a Resident Card authorize for working (you can find more information in this blog “becoming a resident”.)
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Becoming a Permanent Resident option 1

One way to become a permanent resident is by time. After 4 years of having your temporary resident card you can apply to be a permanent. You have to go to the immigration office in Mexico near you and start the paperwork. Once approved,you dont have to make an every year renewals anymore, the permanent resident card is valid for 10 years after that you have change it and have to take some new pictures (we change our looks with time).

Besides the paperwork you have to pay two fees to immigration. One for checking your case to see if you apply and it is around $67 usd it has to be pay in pesos in a mexican bank. Two: The fee to become a permanent $261 usd, again it has to be pay in pesos in any mexican bank, dont you ever do any payment at the immigration office.

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Being a resident in Mexico

In order to live as a resident in Mexico, you have to start the process in a mexican consulate preferably closer to the place where you live.

Here is the process:

  1. You make an appointment in a Mexican consulate
  2. They make you an enterview and if you are autorize they going to put a stamp visa in your passport (it could be a temporary o permanent visa).
  3. After that, you have six month to enter Mexico and apply for exchange your stamp visa for a resident card (It is called “Canje”). Here is where I como to the scene, I prepare all your paperwork and submit it at the immigration office along with your stamp visa.
  4. Immigration will process the documentation submitted, authorize and inform you to go to their office so they can take your fingerprint, signature and photo. (biometics)
  5. Finally you get the immigration resident card is size like a drivers license.

If you have any question please let me know, I´ll be glad to help: mexicovisa@yahoo.com

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