What is the sequence of steps to apply for a visitor visa to Mexico? Here we have collected links to other publications on our website dedicated to obtaining a Mexican visa. Do you want to know detailed information about each process or detailed conditions for documents? Just follow the required link.
Select a Mexican consular office
Citizens of Ukraine, Russia and Turkey do not need to purchase a Mexican visa. Instead, to enter Mexico they must obtain a free electronicpermission.
Citizens of Belarus can purchase a Mexico visa in their country throughtravel agencies.
Citizens of other CIS countries must submit documentation for a Mexico visa only in person. We told you how to choose the right consular departmentHere. The same link provides addresses and contacts of consulates.
Make an appointment at the consulate
All Mexican consulates accept appointments only. There is no need to go to the consular section if you have not been given a date.
Write to the diplomatic mission by email and ask to set a date for you to submit documentation for a Mexican visa. In the letter please indicate:
- your first and last name,
- citizenship,
- names, surnames, citizenships of everyone who will accompany you on your trip to Mexico, your family connections,
- purpose of the trip.
Request a list of required documents. The more accurately you describe the purpose of your trip to Mexico, the more accurate the list of documents you will receive. Then you will not have to urgently prepare the missing papers.
Languages of communication with the consulate: Spanish, English or the language of the state where the consular department is located. For example, writing to the consulate in Istanbul in Russian is useless.
Some consulates require registration through the MiConsulado system.
Prepare documentation
The diplomatic mission will provide you with the exact list of required documentation. We provide the maximum possible list of papers and the norms for them in thispublications(section «Required papers»).
Required documents:
- Questionnairefor a visa
- Passport
- Copies of all pages of the passport with personal data, stamps and visas
- Photo
- Certificate from place of work or place of study, pension certificate
- Extractfrom a bank account
- Documentation of family ties if you are traveling with family or sponsoring a relative's trip: birth or marriage certificate
- Documentation confirming the purpose of travel to Mexico:
- tourism: purchasedtouror hotel reservation (depending on the consulate)
- private visit: invitationprivatefaces
- business visit: invitation fromcompaniesor to participate inevent. Please note: if the business invitation does not indicate the financial guarantees of the inviting company, the diplomatic mission has the right not to accept it
- treatment:invitationfrom a Mexican doctor and clinic
Some consulates also ask you to show your ticket reservation to Mexico, round trip, and your hotel reservation or purchased tour. Usually these conditions can be read on the website of a particular consulate. The Mexican Consulate in Moscow has no such requirements.
Additional documentation. They have the right to ask for them, but they have the right not to ask. If they are on the list of papers sent to you by the diplomatic mission, be sure to prepare them.
- Document on ownership of real estate. This document becomes mandatory if you do not meet the minimum financial criteria (salary and bank account balance)
- Payroll from the accounting department at the place of work
- Insurance (may be included in the tour package)
- Travel plan orrouteby country
- Copies of visas you had in previous passports
All documentation in foreign languages should be translated into Spanish or English (one of these two languages). The translation does not need to be certified. Make one simple photocopy of all original documents.
Send copies of documentation to the consular section
Some consulates do not require pre-submission of documentation via email. In this case, skip this section and come to the consular section on the appointed day.
Write to the diplomatic mission again, re-indicate the purpose of the trip, personal data and data of all fellow travelers. You can also simply respond to a letter previously received from the consulate. Please attach scanned copies of all documentation, including the application form, to the letter.
After checking the documents, the consular department will either refuse to issue a visa, or point out comments on the documents, or set a date and invite you to submit documents in person and interview. The consular department is not required to provide the reason for the refusal. If there are comments on the documents, you will have time to correct them. Then resubmit the documentation to the consular section.
Prepare for your interview
Not all consulates conduct interviews. Interview at the consulate — important point. During it you will be asked questions about you, your family, work and especially — about the purpose of the visit to Mexico. Incomprehensible answers during an interview — a common reason for refusal of a visa to Mexico.
If you are traveling to Mexico by private invitation, prepare especially carefully. Learn all the details about the inviting party, tell us how you met and what connects you, show photographs or correspondence.
If you are traveling to Mexico at the invitation of a business partner or for treatment, you also need to know all the details about the inviting company or clinic, tell what connects you and what goal you will achieve by visiting Mexico. Bring copies of contracts with you.
Submit documentation and pass an interview
If you do not speak Spanish, English, or the language of the country where the consulate is located, find an interpreter in advance. The Consular Section does not provide an interpreter.
On the appointed date and time, come to the consular department and submit the paperwork for a Mexico visa. At the consulate, pay the visa fee (US$56, 2026). Some consulates allow you to pay on site, others allow payment through a bank in local currency.
Get fingerprinted and interviewed.
Pick up your passport with visa
The consulate will notify you when your visa is ready. Usually it takes from 1 to 5 days to open a visa.
There is no expedited process for acquiring a Mexico visa, but in case of emergency, the consular section can issue a visa on the same day.
On the appointed day, come to the consulate and receive a passport with an open Mexico visa. If a family applied for visas, one of the parents can pick up the passports.