There is currently a large flow of Ukrainian refugees passing through Mexico on their way to the US border. The United States is temporarily allowing Ukrainians visa-free entry under a so-called humanitarian pass, and about 500 Ukrainians cross the U.S. border from Mexico every day. You can now cross the border in 10 hours or even faster; the queues are much smaller than they were in March. From February 20 to April 11, 9,660 Ukrainians arrived in Mexico, the Ukrainian Ambassador reported. Of course, not all of them headed to Tijuana, to the US border. In total, the United States has announced its readiness to accept 100 thousand refugees from Ukraine.
Russians also try to get to the United States through Mexico, but with less success. The humanitarian password does not apply to them. To submit a petition, they wait their turn at pedestrian crossings, and many, in the old-fashioned way, try to illegally enter through vehicular crossings, posing as Americans.
Young couples decide to seek asylum in the United States at the last minute. We heard about the prospect, packed our bags, and flew to Mexico. The Mexican Migration Service is now quite loyal to the screening of arriving Ukrainians and Russians, and the number of entry refusals has noticeably decreased.
The humanitarian password applies only to Ukrainians. What to do if one of the couple is Ukrainian and the other is Russian? The answer is simple: in order to be allowed into the USA together, you must be a family. And confirm this with a document. Get married in Mexico before moving to the US.
Alternatively, Americans fly to Mexico to meet their fiancée, marry her, and then return to the United States and wait for the wife to cross the border or even help her with the crossing. This significantly speeds up the legalization process in the United States.
If you want your petition to be considered as one in an American court, you must also be a family. This concerns, first of all, Russians. There are significantly fewer families on the border than single people.
What if you are married but come to Mexico without a marriage license? Or didn’t you have time to put an apostille on it? If you don't have children, you can also remarry in Mexico to formally confirm your relationship.
Mexico — one last chance to legitimize your family relationship and create formal proof in the form of a marriage certificate before you enter the US. We provide assistance in quickly registering a marriage in Mexico and want to tell you about some useful points.
The most important thing: if you did NOT bring a birth certificate from your homeland, and even certified with an apostille stamp, and at the same time a certificate of absence of another marriage or a certificate of change of surname, also apostilled, you can get married in Mexico only in the state of Quintana Roo, in other wordsin Cancun. And there are no options. To register a marriage in Quintana Rooyou only need a passport. Therefore, try to plan your route to Tijuana so that it passes through Cancun.
Your goal is pragmatic — purchase a marriage certificate. If so, discard unnecessary romance, renting outfits and buying rings, and come to sign as is, without preparation. We can agree with the judge, and he will sign you in any place you choose or in his office, and not just in the registry office. No queue. And on any day, including weekends or holidays, although registry offices are closed on these days. With our help, you can register your marriage at allany day, and even on the day of treatment. In this case, the marriage will be entered into the federal civil registry, and a state-issued marriage certificate will be issued. By the way, you will leave your thumbprints on it.
The next permission is — quick blood test. As you know, a blood test before marriage in Mexico — legal requirement. Usually they take the test one day, the next — come to register. We can conduct both testing and registrationin one day, and the medical laboratory will come to take blood samples wherever you say.
A marriage license must be stamped in order to be valid outside of Mexico.apostille. This is a completely simple process, but it takes a lot of time: you have to wait for officials to return the document with an apostille. There is plenty to do in Cancun for a week, but we can also expedite the apostille or send the apostille by courier to your address in Tijuana. Usually delivered within 1 day.
Final chord —translationcertificates and apostille in English. We will not say that a translation by a certified Mexican translator is required, but if it is needed, we can arrange such a translation within just 1 day.
You are now family, and US Customs and Border Protection will treat you as one, not as two separate people. And it doesn’t matter at all that you became a family only a few days ago.
We would like to add that in Cancun it is possible to register andsame-sex marriage. The procedure is no different from the usual one. Such a marriage is recognized not only in Mexico, but also in the United States. It is unlikely that you will find another country where it is as easy to enter into a same-sex marriage as in Mexico.