We monitor what is published and offered on the Internet. Against the backdrop of numerous denials of tourist visas to residents of the CIS countries, offers of assistance in obtaining a Mexican work visa have appeared. Expensive because entry is guaranteed with a work visa.
Yes, entry is guaranteed with a work visa. But its execution is not guaranteed. It is even more difficult to obtain such a visa than an ordinary sovereign guest.
Let's start with the fact that a work visa — This is not a visa to stay in the country. It is always one-time (one entry), and it allows you to stay in Mexico for only 30 days. For comparison: with a guest sovereign visa, you have the right to stay in Mexico for 180 days or 20 times for 180 days if the visa is 10 years. The only purpose of a work visa is — entry into Mexico using it for the purpose of obtaining a temporary residence permit with a work permit. The work visa itself does not give you the right to work in Mexico.
There are no 5-year work visas available! Even resident status can be granted for a maximum period of 4 years. But in most cases they give it for only 1 year, with the prospect of extending it every year for another 1 year or for 3 years. And so on until 4 years. And every year you will need to pay for new papers and for renewal. Because without confirmation from the employer, the residence status will not be extended.
It is impossible to get a real work visa or a Mexican resident card without passingfingerprints. Moreover, it is impossible remotely. Those so-called Mexican work visas, which are widely offered in Telegram groups, with pictures of a green plastic card — this is fake. Please note: there is no long CURP number on the promotional images of the card. Without this number, it is impossible to verify the validity of the card.
And most importantly. They may tell you how easily and without problems you can enter Mexico on a work visa… Yes, you will get it first! If you are a citizen of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and other neighboring countries, youneverwill not get a Mexico work visa. Perhaps this was allowed before. But after citizens of these countries began to use any prospect to get to Mexico, Mexican consulates completely blocked the process of issuing work visas to residents of a number of CIS countries.
Let’s say they will provide you with the documents to purchase a work visa. The main ones — an invitation from a Mexican employer and permission to hire a foreigner from the Mexican immigration service. And these are not just two pieces of paper, but a whole package of papers. It seems that in the first stage you only make a small upfront payment for the documentation. But things will not reach the second stage. The diplomatic mission will accept the paper, but will refuse a visa.
Those who have already been to Mexico still have a chance to get a work visa. However, in recent months even they have been refused. If a country is on the list of countries whose citizens most often use Mexico for transit to the United States, it is now hardly possible to obtain a work visa with a passport from such a power.
It is no secret that previously, for residents of a number of Latin American countries, a work visa was the main way to legalize themselves in Mexico. Today they have to wait for better times. But citizens of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and other countries, as before, have the opportunity to successfully obtain a Mexico work visa.
It is even more difficult to obtain a work visa if you are going to Mexico with your family. The one who was invited to work will receive a work visa, the rest of the family — dependent visas. The diplomatic mission will be doubly demanding when it learns that the employee is taking his entire family to Mexico.
We talked about the main features of a Mexico work visa in this article.publications. Read and stop thinking that a work visa — panacea for entry into Mexico.