Many have heard about the immigration program in Mexico, which allows those who have previously visited the country to obtain resident status for 4 years. But no one saw her official terms.Because they don't exist! More precisely, they are not set out in a separate document. Some people believe that since there is no document — there is no program either, but it is not so. When deciding whether to grant a residence permit, the migration service relies on the mechanisms prescribed in existing Mexican migration legislation and on its authority to use these mechanisms, subject to appropriateness. In the same way, during the coronavirus epidemic, the migration service for a whole 1.5 years officially issued new FMM migration forms without leaving the state, although even then no one saw any conditions recorded on paper for such an extension of the travel visa.
Let us remind you that the program for resolving the migration situation allows those who were already in Mexico in 2023 or in previous years to obtain resident status, then left, and now have returned again and are placed in an illegal status (the permitted period of stay has expired). You can find out the criteria for participation in this program from thispublicationson our website, and we always keep the information in this publication up to date.
The name itself — «program for resolving the migration situation» (Programa de Regularización Migratoria) — was invented by someone and came into use. This is the unofficial name of the program or, rather, options for obtaining a residence permit. Quite often, our readers report that the migration service offices know nothing about this program. But you need to ask not about the “program,” but about the option to obtain a resident card on the basis that you have previously been to Mexico, your current legal status has ended, and you want to resolve this migration situation.
They have the right, they don’t even know about the program, but at the entrance to almost every migration service office there hangs this or a similar banner with the slogans Registro Nacional de Extranjeros and #Actualízate Ya. This is an advertisement for the settlement program. So ask them what this advertisement is about, how to get into this register of foreigners and what is needed to «update».
Next, you have the right to visit the pages of the National Institute of Migration of Mexico (INM) on social networks — VFacebookorTwitter. Almost every day the migration service places advertisements there with incomprehensible content. «Could not renew a migration document that expired in 2020 or in previous years? Update now!». This is also an advertisement for the settlement program. At the same time, they didn’t even bother to change the year in the advertisement, although from the beginning of 2024, those who had their first entries into Mexico in 2022 are also able to participate in the program.
Actualiza tu documento migratorio emitido por@INAMI_mx, si venció en 2021 o años anteriores.
🔗t.co/hLXdHwJ3V3pic.twitter.com/68tGBt4kGt— INM (@INAMI_mx)April 11, 2023
The advertisement states that to formalize the conditions you need to call a phone number. No use! You will still be sent for personal communication to the migration service office at your place of residence.
Sometimes the migration service sends out notification letters, which in addition notify about the possibility of resolving the migration situation. We provide a sample of such a letter below. You have the right to print it out and show it at the migration service office if they tell you that they have not heard anything about the settlement program.
There is no other way to find out if you will be given a residence permit other than to personally visit the migration service office and give them your passport to scan and search for your previous entries in the migration database. But you have the right to apply there only after the current permitted period of stay has ended, otherwise not all conditions for participation in the program have been met, and no one will even talk to you. In fact, communication with migration service employees most often looks like this: give me your passport — scan your passport — we approve (do not approve) your registration of a residence permit. With a minimum set of explanations. One might even get the impression that the migration service is hiding the criteria for the settlement program, although it still gives a residence permit.
Our task — inform readers about current regulations and offer opportunities for acquiring a residence permit in Mexico under the settlement program. We learn these criteria from our clients who personally contacted the migration service offices to purchase a residence permit under the program. If youwant to know «official requirements» from the original source, the only permission — contact the migration service in personand show them their own advertisements.
In addition, clients tell us that participation conditions vary from office to office in Mexico. Somewhere they issue a residence permit to those who were in Mexico for the first time in 2023, only if the departure was in the same year; in other offices they do not take into account when the departure took place. Some states only accept documentation if the authorized stay obtained at last entry was 180 days, while others — even if it was 7 days. Therefore, we advise you to find out the program conditions in different offices and contact the one where they suit you. This once again suggests that uniform «official conditions» no, and each office can interpret the prospects set out in existing migration legislation in its own way. Moreover, the norms may depend on the personal position of the head of the migration service office, which, on the one hand, gives rise to corruption, but on the other hand, opens up options for obtaining a residence permit under the program for those who were denied in other offices. After all, when you have already been officially issued a Mexican resident card, you should not be interested in why other offices refused you, but accepted this one.
Invitación al Registro Nacional de Extranjeros
El Instituto Nacional de Migración, dependiente de la Secretaría de Gobernación, realiza campaña de actualización del Registro Nacional de Extranjeros.
Va dirigida a quienes ingresaron y permanecen en México desde 2022 o años anteriores, a fin de que acudan a la Oficina de Representación del INM más cercana a su domicilio de residencia para renovar su documento migratorio.
Participan las personas extranjeras que, por cuestiones imprevistas y/o ajenas no han podido renovar su documento migratorio, pero han decidido vivir en el país por distintos motivos, como familiares, laborales, educativos, entre otros.
El primer paso es localizar la Oficina de Representación del INM más cercana, donde el personal acreditado -debidamente identificable, con uniforme y credencial del instituto- te brindarán atención especializada para poder actualizar tu documento vencido.
A través de la siguiente liga de internet se puede consultar la ubicación y teléfonos de contacto de las 32 oficinas de representación del INM en el país:gob.mx/inm/acciones-y-programas/…
En la ciudad Solidaridad, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo ubicada en Av. Constituyentes esquina 95 Av., lote 1, manzana 12, colonia Ejido, en un horario de Lunes a Viernes 09:00 a 15:00 horas.
También, se cuenta con un Centro de Atención Migratoria del INM al número telefónico . en el cual se proporciona orientación sobre los requisitos para poder solicitar la actualización del documento migratorio.
La actualización de la documentación migratoria garantiza mantener la estancia en México de manera regular, con certeza jurídica y la posibilidad de tener acceso a servicios públicos y privados.
Ten en cuenta que si eres una persona extranjera con una tarjeta de residente vigente no es necesario que actualices tu información para este Registro Nacional de Extranjeros.
Este esfuerzo, forma parte de la actualización del Registro Nacional de Extranjeros que realiza el INM, con fundamento en los artículos 20, fracción VI, 63 primer párrafo de la Ley de Migración y 130, fracción X del Reglamento Interior de la Secretaría de Gobernación.