A certain number of years must pass from the day you first receive your Mexican resident card to the day you are able to apply for citizenship. By birth of a child in Mexico or by marriage to a citizen of the country — this is 2 years, in all other cases — this is 5 years. But at the same time, in the last 2 years preceding the day of filing the application for naturalization, you were not required to be absent from the country for more than 6 months in total.
Let's explain this with examples.
A baby was born, the parents received permanent resident cards in Mexico, they did not travel anywhere for 2 years or traveled for a total of less than 6 months — Excellent, exactly 2 years after receiving a resident card, you are allowed to apply for naturalization.
The baby was born, they received permanent resident cards and immediately left for their homeland, and after 2 years they returned to Mexico. You are required to live in Mexico for another 2 years, not one and a half, as some people think, before applying for naturalization.
When you fill out Form DNN-3, it must include an affidavit confirming the dates you left and entered Mexico. You can find the application form below. Copy the text from it into a separate file and fill it with your data.
Escrito bajo protesta de decir verdad en el que se señale con claridad el número de salidas y entradas.
The number of days you have been absent from Mexico over the past 2 years will have to be calculated literally by day, if you do not want to exceed those same 6 months. If you are sure that you were absent less, you can not count. Accept that 6 months — this is 180 days, and the day of departure and the day of entry — This is 2 days of absence. In the affidavit, you indicate only the dates of departure and entry, on the basis of which the number of days of absence will be calculated without your participation.
Mexico does not put exit stamps on passports, so it may not be possible to track the date of departure using your passport. You could also change your passport, and all the stamps would remain in the old document. Because you are making a statement under oath, you cannot provide approximate or inaccurate dates. We advise you to request a certificate from the migration service regarding your exits and entries (constancia de flujo migratorio, certificado de movimientos migratorios). We talked about how to prepare flujo migratorio at the migration service in thispublications.
If you are sure that you have never left Mexico in the last 2 years, fill out another application form:
Minors prior to naturalization generally do not have to leave Mexico for a period of 1 year, and they are required to fill out their no-travel application.
Completed application «under oath» should be printed and signed, then make 2 simple photocopies, and all this should be attached to the DNN-3 form.