Let's get this straight: if you miss renewing your resident card, it is not possible to renew your residency status in Mexico. There are no valid reasons to get a new card if the last card expired more than 60 calendar days ago. For this reason, try not to miss the deadline for renewing your resident card.
If you are in Mexico, you must contact the immigration office to renew your temporary resident card or apply for a permanent resident card no earlier than 30 days before the expiration date of your current card and no later than 60 days after the expiration date of the card.
If you are abroad, you must enter Mexico within 55 days after your current card expires, and you will have another 5 days to contact the immigration office to purchase a new card.
You cannot obtain a new resident card remotely or by proxy. You should personally contact the migration service office where the previous card was issued, or first notify another migration service office about the change of home address, and then contact them to obtain a new card.
The Adult Permanent Resident Card does not expire and does not need to be renewed. But there is a situation when you, through negligence, entered Mexico as a guest of the country and not as a resident. In particular, you went through passport control at the airport through an automatic gate, and not through the immigration officer’s counter, or did not inform the officer that you were a resident of Mexico. In this case, your residence in Mexico will be automatically cancelled. If you realize the mistake at the airport, you do not have the opportunity to return to passport control to correct the situation. But you can contact the migration service office at the airport and explain the situation. They will issue a letter of internment, according to which then the line office of the migration service in the city where your resident card was issued will be able to correct the error, and your residence will not be affected.
If you lose your resident card abroad, you will also not be able to gain entry into Mexico as a resident. You need to contact one of the Mexican consulates. Most often, you will need a letter from the police issued in response to your statement about the loss or theft of the card. The Consular Section will issue you a resident visa (you will have to pay a visa fee of $53, 2025). You must enter Mexico within 180 days of receiving your visa, tell the immigration officer that you are entering on a resident visa, and then apply to the immigration office to obtain a new resident card. This is the same process for exchanging a visa for a resident card (canje) as for resident visas issued on other grounds.
This procedure for restoring a resident card lost abroad is prescribed in the directives of the Mexican Migration Service. However, we know of cases when it was allowed, upon arrival in Mexico, to contact a migration service officer at the airport before or during passport control, draw up a letter of internment and go with it to the line office of the migration service to restore the card. This option definitely does not work if the card was lost and you enter without it after its expiration date.
If you miss the 60-day expiration date on your card or do not promptly correct the error of incorrectly processing your entry into Mexico as a resident, you will lose your residency status in Mexico and will not be able to renew it. But you are able to obtain residency status in Mexico again. Let's say, on the same basis on which it was registered the previous time (due to marriage, birth of a child, etc.) or on another basis available at that time. Re-applying for a residence permit means that the time you have already lived as a resident of Mexico will be reset for purposes of obtaining Mexican citizenship.