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Last updated: September 10, 2026

# Mexico Temporary Resident Visa: requirements, cost and process in 2026

Residente Temporal is the visa remote workers, pre-retirees and long-stay applicants actually use. Here is what the 2026 rules ask for, where the figures come from, and what happens after the consulate says yes.

Quick answer

Mexico's temporary resident visa is granted on **economic solvency**: either net income above **680 UMA a month** (MXN 79,771, about USD 4,700) over six months, or an average balance above **11,460 UMA** (MXN 1,344,373, about USD 79,200) over twelve. It is applied for at a Mexican consulate **outside Mexico**, lasts **one year at first and up to four in total**, and becomes a resident card only after the canje at INM.

Written by Hassan Yassine

Founder of GetMexicoVisa. Legal review by a licensed Mexican immigration lawyer is being added. Until then every regulatory figure on this page cites its primary source directly, listed at the foot of the page.

## What Residente Temporal actually is

Residente Temporal is Mexico's temporary residency status for people who want to live in the country for longer than a tourist entry allows and who can show they can support themselves without working for a Mexican employer. It is the visa behind almost every English language phrase people search for: the Mexico residency visa, the retirement visa before the permanent one, and the digital nomad visa that does not exist.

Two things about it surprise people. It is applied for **only at a Mexican consulate outside Mexico**, so a tourist already in the country cannot convert. And the visa the consulate issues is not residency: it is a single entry sticker, valid 180 days, that has to be exchanged for a resident card at the Instituto Nacional de Migración within 30 calendar days of arriving. That exchange is called the canje, and it is where most of the avoidable damage happens.

The legal basis is Article 52, fraction VII of the Ley de Migración, and the financial test comes from the Lineamientos Generales para la expedición de visas published in the Diario Oficial de la Federación on 25 July 2025.

## There is no Mexican digital nomad visa

Mexico has never created one. No statute, no fraction of Article 52, no visa category names remote workers. When a page offers you a Mexico digital nomad visa, it is describing Residente Temporal under a name the law does not use, and the risk is not the name, it is that such pages tend to quote a threshold to match.

What is true is that Residente Temporal fits remote work well. The solvency test asks where your money comes from and how much of it arrives, not what you do at a laptop. Income paid by a foreign employer or foreign clients into your own bank account is exactly the shape the consulate wants to see. What the visa does not give you is the right to be paid by a Mexican company, which is a different route entirely.

Check the year on any figure you read

Two things changed recently and a lot of published guidance predates both. The **25 July 2025** Lineamientos replaced per consulate income rules with one national formula in UMA. Then on **1 January 2026** the resident card fees doubled. Several high authority sites still circulate income thresholds well below the current figure, which is the specific reason every number on this page carries the source it came from.

The other honest note for remote workers is that the 180 day tourist entry many people rely on is not a right. Officers have been writing shorter stays since 2021, and a tourist stamp is discretionary. If Mexico is a plan rather than a season, residency is the difference between hoping at the border and not thinking about it.

## The 2026 thresholds, and where they come from

Every financial threshold in Mexican immigration is a multiple of the UMA, the Unidad de Medida y Actualización that INEGI republishes each January. For 2026 the UMA is **MXN 117.31 a day**, in force from 1 February 2026. Multiply, and you have the requirement.

| Route | UMA | In pesos | About, in dollars | Period looked at |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Income | 680 a month | MXN 79,771 | USD 4,700 | last 6 months, net |
| Savings | 11,460 average | MXN 1,344,373 | USD 79,200 | last 12 months, average balance |
| Each dependent | 220 a month | MXN 25,808 | USD 1,520 | same as the principal |

The peso column is the requirement. The dollar column is arithmetic at the Banco de México FIX rate of 16.9722 on 10 September 2026, and it moves with the exchange rate, so treat it as a guide rather than a number to plan to the last hundred.

The two routes are alternatives. The Lineamientos present them as separate ways to satisfy the same test, and there is no provision for adding part of one to part of the other. If you are close on income and close on savings, you are not qualified twice over, you are on the wrong side of both.

Why your consulate's page shows a different number

Each post converts the peso figure into local currency at its own rate and republishes on its own schedule. The Leamington consulate in Canada currently publishes CAD 6,461 a month and CAD 108,894 in savings, which convert consistently to the same UMA multiples. Houston's sheet still shows 11,400 UMA where the current text says 11,460, and computes its dollar figures on the 2025 UMA. **Prepare to the peso figure and to whatever your own post publishes, whichever is higher.**

You can put your own numbers against these thresholds without giving anyone an email address. The calculator is a page on this site and it says which route you clear, by how much, and what to do when you are inside the margin where consulates differ.

## The lookback, and why the lowest month is what matters

The income route looks at **six months** and the savings route at **twelve**. That sounds like a formality until you notice what it does to a variable income.

Consulates read the income route month by month, not as an average. Six months at USD 5,000 and one at USD 3,200 is not a comfortable average, it is a month below the line, and that is the version of this that gets refused. A freelancer whose income swings with invoicing dates is in this position far more often than a salaried applicant, and the fix is usually timing: wait until the six month window contains only months that clear, rather than applying on the strength of the year as a whole.

The savings route is genuinely an average, which makes it more forgiving of a bad month and less forgiving of a recent transfer. An account that was funded three weeks before the application shows a twelve month average well below its current balance, and a consulate can see that on the statements.

Ask yourself the useful question

Not what your income averages, but **what your worst month in the last six looks like on a bank statement**. That is the number the officer is looking at.

## What the consulate asks for

Every post publishes its own list and that list governs. What follows is what they have in common, in the form the Leamington consulate publishes it.

-   The **visa application form**, printed double sided on one page, completed and signed.
-   **Passport**, original and a copy of the photograph page. Applicants who are not citizens of the country they are applying from also show proof of their own legal status there.
-   One **photograph**, 3.5 by 4.5 cm, taken within the last six months, face uncovered, no glasses, white background, no filters.
-   **Financial evidence** for the route you are using: original bank or investment statements covering the full lookback, or documents showing employment or pension income.
-   The **fee**, paid by card at several posts, cash at others.

One line in that list does more damage than the rest combined. Leamington puts it plainly: **all financial statements must be presented with stamp and signature**. Not a PDF from online banking, not a printout, not a screenshot. A document the bank has issued, stamped and signed. Applicants who bank only with an online institution need to find this out months before the appointment, not at the counter, because some of those banks cannot produce one at all.

The second is the name on the account. It has to match your passport, and it should be your account. Joint accounts are read differently from post to post and are one of the most reported causes of trouble among applicants whose numbers were never in doubt.

## The process, in order

1.  **Book through MiConsulado.** Appointments are made only at citas.sre.gob.mx, and only at the consulate with jurisdiction over where you live. Leamington states plainly that appointments are typically two months out and that it cannot accommodate urgent requests because of travel plans. Miami has been reported at three to six months. Booking a visa appointment under another service, such as a passport, gets it cancelled.
2.  **Assemble the file to that post's list**, in the months while you wait. This is the part that is entirely within your control and the part that decides the outcome.
3.  **Attend the interview.** About twenty minutes, in English at United States and Canadian posts. The questions are predictable: where your money comes from, what you will do in Mexico, where you will live. Pay the consular fee of MXN 913.15, which most posts publish as around USD 56 in local currency.
4.  **Collect the sticker.** Since the reform, decisions are often the same day. There is no formal appeal from a refusal; the remedy is a new application.
5.  **Travel within 180 days**, and at the border ask to be admitted for the canje.
6.  **File the canje with INM within 30 calendar days**, attend the biometrics appointment, and collect the card in person.

Realistically, three to five months from booking to card, and the consulate queue is most of it. Nothing you do makes that queue shorter. Be wary of anyone who says otherwise: a United States consulate has publicly warned about people reselling appointment slots, and we do not book, resell or secure them.

## After you arrive: the canje and the card

The border is the hinge of the whole process. Your sticker is valid for **one entry**, and if the officer admits you as a tourist that entry is spent and the visa with it. The only remedy is a new application from a consulate abroad. It costs nothing to prevent: tell the officer you are entering to exchange your resident visa, and check the stamp before you leave the booth.

Then the clock. **Thirty calendar days** from entry to file the exchange with INM, under Article 59 of the Reglamento. The filing is through the INM portal, in Spanish, with a formal letter and the fee. INM issues an appointment for fingerprints and a photograph, and the procedure's published term is up to 15 working days, inside the 20 working day ceiling Article 128 of the Ley de Migración sets generally. Offices have been using more of that window since 2025.

While the file is open you should not leave Mexico without a permiso de salida y regreso from INM. The card is collected in person and carries your CURP, the population registry number that Mexican banks, landlords and the tax authority all ask for.

This step is where a self filer most often needs someone on the ground: the portal is Spanish only, the letter has a form, and INM sometimes asks for a document that was not on the published list, which is difficult to answer from another country.

## How long it lasts, and what comes next

The first card is issued for **one year**. Renewals are filed inside Mexico for one, two or three further years, up to a total of four including the first, and Article 52 of the Ley de Migración sets that cap. Renewal is an INM procedure, not a consular one, so you do not repeat the appointment abroad.

| Card | 2026 | 2025 | About, in dollars |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 year | MXN 11,140.74 | MXN 5,570 | USD 656 |
| 2 years | MXN 16,693.36 | MXN 8,347 | USD 984 |
| 3 years | MXN 21,142.58 | MXN 10,571 | USD 1,246 |
| 4 years | MXN 25,057.82 | MXN 12,529 | USD 1,476 |

Every line doubled on 1 January 2026, which is not a rounding change and is worth knowing before you budget from an older guide. The four year card is cheaper per year than four annual renewals, but it is issued at INM's discretion at renewal, not on request at the first filing.

At the end of four years you change condition to [Residente Permanente](https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-permanent-resident-visa) from inside Mexico. Retirees whose pension already clears the permanent threshold can skip the temporary years altogether and apply for permanent residency at the consulate directly, which is the point the [guide for retirees](https://getmexicovisa.com/retire-in-mexico-visa) starts from.

## What you may and may not do for money

Residente Temporal granted on solvency **does not authorize paid work for a Mexican employer**. That is the line, and it is about who pays you, not about where you are sitting.

-   **Allowed in practice:** a salary from a foreign employer, invoices to foreign clients, pension income, dividends and rent from outside Mexico. This is the ordinary shape of the solvency route.
-   **Needs permission:** a job with a Mexican company, or Mexican clients paying you for work. INM can add work permission to a Temporal card, and the Mexican employer starts that process, not you.
-   **Worth advice before you act:** registering a Mexican company, or invoicing through the Mexican tax system, both of which change your position under immigration and tax rules at once.

Immigration status and tax residency are separate questions with separate tests, and living in Mexico can make you a Mexican tax resident whatever your card says.

## What it costs, all in

Two government fees, plus whatever you spend getting to the consulate.

| Item | Paid to | Amount | About, in dollars |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Consular visa fee | The consulate, abroad | MXN 913.15 | USD 54 |
| Resident card, 1 year | INM, in Mexico | MXN 11,140.74 | USD 656 |
| Government total |  | MXN 12,053.89 | USD 710 |

Our own fee is separate and published: **USD 599, paid once** when you sign, covering the file, the consulate preparation, the entry briefing, the canje filing and someone with you at INM until the card is issued. Government fees are always yours to pay and are never bundled into ours, which is why they are itemised here rather than folded into a single number.

For comparison, the Mexican facilitators who publish prices at all charge from about USD 380 for preparation plus in person help at INM, up to about USD 930 in bundled stages. What none of them publish is a single fee that runs the whole way through.

## Where these applications actually fail

Almost never on the number, once the applicant has checked it. The pattern in reported refusals is documentary.

1.  **Statements the bank did not issue.** Printouts and PDFs instead of stamped, signed originals.
2.  **A month below the line** inside the six month window on the income route.
3.  **Joint accounts**, or accounts in a company or trust name, where the post wants the applicant's own.
4.  **A gap in the lookback**, a closed account, or a bank that cannot produce twelve months.
5.  **A name mismatch** between the passport, the statements and the form.
6.  **The wrong consulate**, outside the district where you live.
7.  **The tourist stamp at entry**, which is not a refusal at all but ends the application just as finally.

Every one of these is visible before the appointment, which is the argument for spending the two month wait on the file rather than on the calendar.

## 2026 in context, without the sales pitch

Mexico has become harder and more expensive for this visa in the last year, and it is better to know that from us.

Card fees **doubled on 1 January 2026**, reported in the Mexican press as a response to the anti gentrification protests in Mexico City in July 2025. INM has been slower since a change of Commissioner in May 2025, and offices in Mexico City, Guadalajara and Playa del Carmen have documented appointment scarcity. The tax authority has been reported cross referencing migration records against long staying foreigners.

None of that makes the visa hard to get. The threshold is unchanged in real terms, the reform made the rules clearer than they have ever been, and a well prepared file at a well chosen consulate is a routine approval. It does mean the process rewards preparation more than it used to, and that anyone telling you it is quick and cheap in 2026 has not looked at the fee schedule.

## Frequently asked questions

### How much income do you need for a Mexico temporary resident visa in 2026?

More than 680 UMA a month, which is MXN 79,771 at the 2026 UMA of MXN 117.31 a day, roughly USD 4,700 at the Banxico rate of 16.97 on 10 September 2026. The consulate looks at the last six months of net income. The peso figure is the requirement; each consulate converts it into local currency at its own rate, so the dollar or Canadian dollar number on a consulate page will differ slightly from this one.

### Can I qualify on savings instead of income?

Yes. The savings route asks for an average monthly balance above 11,460 UMA over the last twelve months, which is MXN 1,344,373, roughly USD 79,200. It is an alternative to the income route, not an addition: the Lineamientos list the two as separate ways to qualify, and no consulate is known to accept half of each.

### Does Mexico have a digital nomad visa?

No. Mexico has never created a visa named for remote workers. People who work remotely from Mexico use the ordinary Residente Temporal visa and qualify on economic solvency, the same route a pre-retiree or a long-stay applicant uses. Any page offering a Mexican digital nomad visa is describing this visa under a name the law does not use.

### Can I apply for temporary residency from inside Mexico?

No. Residente Temporal on economic solvency is applied for at a Mexican consulate outside Mexico. There is no conversion from a tourist entry. If you are in Mexico now, you have to leave, apply at a consulate with jurisdiction over where you live, and re-enter on the visa.

### How much does a Mexico temporary resident visa cost?

Two government fees. The consular visa fee is MXN 913.15 under Article 22 of the Ley Federal de Derechos, about USD 54, and consulates collect the local-currency equivalent, which many of them publish as USD 56. Then the resident card itself costs MXN 11,140.74 for one year, paid to INM in Mexico, about USD 656. Card fees doubled on 1 January 2026.

### How long does a Mexico temporary resident visa last?

The first card is issued for one year. It can then be renewed for one, two or three more years, up to a total of four years including the first. After four years you either change condition to permanent residency from inside Mexico or leave. Article 52 of the Ley de Migración sets the four year cap.

### Can I work in Mexico on a temporary resident visa?

Not for a Mexican employer without a separate permission. The solvency route is granted on income that comes from outside Mexico, and it does not by itself authorize paid work for a Mexican company or Mexican clients. If a Mexican employer offers you a job, INM can add work permission to the card, and the employer starts that process. Working remotely for a foreign employer paid abroad is what the route is used for.

### How long does the whole process take?

Three to five months end to end for a well prepared file, and the consulate appointment queue is most of it. Leamington publishes a two month wait and Miami has been reported at three to six. The consulate decision itself is often same day. After you enter Mexico you have 30 calendar days to file the exchange with INM, whose published term is up to 15 working days, and then the card takes from a day to about four weeks.

### Can my spouse and children get residency at the same time?

Yes, as family unity applicants alongside your file. Each dependent adds 220 UMA a month to what you have to show, which is MXN 25,808, roughly USD 1,520 each. At a consulate the family members have to appear with the principal applicant.

### What if my income is in cryptocurrency or comes from freelance clients?

Both are workable and both need more evidence than a salary does. The consulate is looking for six months of income it can trace in stamped bank statements, so what matters is money arriving in a bank account in your name, not the form it took before that. Freelancers usually add contracts, invoices and tax returns. Balances held in crypto are not bank statements and are the weakest version of the savings route.

### Do consulates still set their own income requirements?

Not since the Lineamientos published in the Diario Oficial on 25 July 2025, which replaced the old per consulate amounts with one national formula in UMA. What still varies is the conversion: each post publishes the figure in local currency at its own rate and updates it on its own schedule, so a stale sheet can show a number several percent off. Houston's 2025 sheet, for example, still shows 11,400 UMA where the current text says 11,460.

### What is the most common reason a temporary resident visa is refused?

Documents rather than money. The pattern reported most often is an applicant who clears the threshold comfortably and is refused over the paperwork behind it: statements printed at home instead of issued and stamped by the bank, a joint account the consulate will not read as the applicant's, a gap month in the six, or a name that does not match the passport.

## Sources

Primary texts read on September 10, 2026. Where a figure could not be confirmed in a primary source, the page says so in the sentence that uses it.

-   [Lineamientos Generales para la expedición de visas, DOF 25 July 2025](https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5763837&fecha=25/07/2025) the national UMA formula for economic solvency; replaces the 2014 text.
-   [INEGI, Unidad de Medida y Actualización](https://www.inegi.org.mx/temas/uma/) UMA 2026 of MXN 117.31 a day, in force from 1 February 2026.
-   [Ley de Migración, Articles 52 and 128](https://www.diputados.gob.mx/LeyesBiblio/pdf/LMigra.pdf) Residente Temporal and its four year cap; the resolution term for migration procedures.
-   [Reglamento de la Ley de Migración, Articles 59 and 156](https://www.diputados.gob.mx/LeyesBiblio/regley/Reg_LMigra.pdf) the 30 calendar day canje deadline and renewals.
-   [Ley Federal de Derechos, Articles 8 and 22](https://www.diputados.gob.mx/LeyesBiblio/pdf/LFD.pdf) the 2026 card fees and the consular visa fee.
-   [Consulado de México en Leamington, Temporary Resident Visa](https://consulmex.sre.gob.mx/leamington/index.php/non-mexicans/visas/115-temporary-resident-visa) a consulate's own published requirements, appointment rules and stamped-statement rule.
-   [MiConsulado, the SRE appointment system](https://citas.sre.gob.mx) the only channel for a consular visa appointment.
-   [Banco de México, FIX exchange rate](https://www.banxico.org.mx/tipcamb/tipCamMIAction.do) 16.9722 pesos to the dollar on 10 September 2026, used for every approximate dollar figure on this page.

## Getting this done

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There is no conversion from a tourist entry. If you are in Mexico now, you have to leave, apply at a consulate with jurisdiction over where you live, and re-enter on the visa."}},{"@type":"Question","@id":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#faq-5","name":"How much does a Mexico temporary resident visa cost?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Two government fees. The consular visa fee is MXN 913.15 under Article 22 of the Ley Federal de Derechos, about USD 54, and consulates collect the local-currency equivalent, which many of them publish as USD 56. Then the resident card itself costs MXN 11,140.74 for one year, paid to INM in Mexico, about USD 656. Card fees doubled on 1 January 2026."}},{"@type":"Question","@id":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#faq-6","name":"How long does a Mexico temporary resident visa last?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"The first card is issued for one year. It can then be renewed for one, two or three more years, up to a total of four years including the first. After four years you either change condition to permanent residency from inside Mexico or leave. Article 52 of the Ley de Migracion sets the four year cap."}},{"@type":"Question","@id":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#faq-7","name":"Can I work in Mexico on a temporary resident visa?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Not for a Mexican employer without a separate permission. The solvency route is granted on income that comes from outside Mexico, and it does not by itself authorize paid work for a Mexican company or Mexican clients. If a Mexican employer offers you a job, INM can add work permission to the card, and the employer starts that process. Working remotely for a foreign employer paid abroad is what the route is used for."}},{"@type":"Question","@id":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#faq-8","name":"How long does the whole process take?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Three to five months end to end for a well prepared file, and the consulate appointment queue is most of it. Leamington publishes a two month wait and Miami has been reported at three to six. The consulate decision itself is often same day. After you enter Mexico you have 30 calendar days to file the exchange with INM, whose published term is up to 15 working days, and then the card takes from a day to about four weeks."}},{"@type":"Question","@id":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#faq-9","name":"Can my spouse and children get residency at the same time?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Yes, as family unity applicants alongside your file. Each dependent adds 220 UMA a month to what you have to show, which is MXN 25,808, roughly USD 1,520 each. At a consulate the family members have to appear with the principal applicant."}},{"@type":"Question","@id":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#faq-10","name":"What if my income is in cryptocurrency or comes from freelance clients?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Both are workable and both need more evidence than a salary does. The consulate is looking for six months of income it can trace in stamped bank statements, so what matters is money arriving in a bank account in your name, not the form it took before that. Freelancers usually add contracts, invoices and tax returns. Balances held in crypto are not bank statements and are the weakest version of the savings route."}},{"@type":"Question","@id":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#faq-11","name":"Do consulates still set their own income requirements?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Not since the Lineamientos published in the Diario Oficial on 25 July 2025, which replaced the old per consulate amounts with one national formula in UMA. What still varies is the conversion: each post publishes the figure in local currency at its own rate and updates it on its own schedule, so a stale sheet can show a number several percent off. Houston's 2025 sheet, for example, still shows 11,400 UMA where the current text says 11,460."}},{"@type":"Question","@id":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#faq-12","name":"What is the most common reason a temporary resident visa is refused?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Documents rather than money. The pattern reported most often is an applicant who clears the threshold comfortably and is refused over the paperwork behind it: statements printed at home instead of issued and stamped by the bank, a joint account the consulate will not read as the applicant's, a gap month in the six, or a name that does not match the passport."}}]},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#toc","name":"On this page","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"What it is","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#what-it-is"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"No nomad visa","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#no-nomad-visa"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The 2026 thresholds","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#money-test"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"The lookback","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#lookback"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"Documents","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#documents"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":6,"name":"The process","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#process"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":7,"name":"After you arrive","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#after-arrival"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":8,"name":"Validity and renewal","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#validity"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":9,"name":"Working","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#work"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":10,"name":"What it costs","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#cost"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":11,"name":"Where it fails","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#refusals"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":12,"name":"2026 in context","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#climate"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":13,"name":"FAQ","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#faq"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":14,"name":"Sources","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#sources"}]},{"@type":"HowTo","@id":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#howto","name":"How to get a Mexico temporary resident visa","description":"The full sequence for Residente Temporal on economic solvency, from booking the consulate appointment to collecting the resident card at INM.","totalTime":"P150D","estimatedCost":{"@type":"MonetaryAmount","currency":"MXN","value":"12054"},"step":[{"@type":"HowToStep","position":1,"name":"Check which route you qualify on","text":"Compare six months of net income against 680 UMA a month, or twelve months of average balance against 11,460 UMA. The two are alternatives, not additions.","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#money-test"},{"@type":"HowToStep","position":2,"name":"Book the consulate appointment","text":"Book through MiConsulado at citas.sre.gob.mx, at the consulate with jurisdiction over where you live. Waits of two months are normal and some posts run longer.","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#process"},{"@type":"HowToStep","position":3,"name":"Assemble the file to that post's published list","text":"Passport, the visa form, a photograph to specification, and original bank statements issued and stamped by the bank covering the full lookback.","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#documents"},{"@type":"HowToStep","position":4,"name":"Attend the interview and pay the consular fee","text":"About twenty minutes, in English at United States and Canadian posts. The consular visa fee is MXN 913.15 under the Ley Federal de Derechos.","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#process"},{"@type":"HowToStep","position":5,"name":"Enter Mexico and ask for the canje stamp","text":"The visa sticker is valid for one entry within 180 days. At the border you must be admitted for the canje, not as a tourist.","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#after-arrival"},{"@type":"HowToStep","position":6,"name":"File the canje with INM within 30 calendar days","text":"Submit the exchange request through the INM portal in Spanish, attend the appointment for fingerprints and photograph, pay the card fee and collect the card in person.","url":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#after-arrival"}]},{"@type":"DefinedTermSet","@id":"https://getmexicovisa.com/mexico-temporary-resident-visa#glossary","name":"Mexican residency glossary","hasDefinedTerm":[{"@type":"DefinedTerm","name":"UMA","description":"Unidad de Medida y Actualización. The indexed unit INEGI republishes every January, used to express every financial threshold in Mexican immigration law. 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The financial test for a residency visa, met either on monthly income over six months or on an average account balance over twelve."},{"@type":"DefinedTerm","name":"Canje","description":"The exchange of a consular resident visa for a resident card, filed with INM within 30 calendar days of entering Mexico."},{"@type":"DefinedTerm","name":"INM","description":"Instituto Nacional de Migración, the authority that issues resident cards inside Mexico."},{"@type":"DefinedTerm","name":"MiConsulado","description":"The Mexican foreign ministry's appointment system at citas.sre.gob.mx, the only channel for booking a consular visa appointment."},{"@type":"DefinedTerm","name":"CURP","description":"Clave Única de Registro de Población. The Mexican population registry number printed on a resident card, asked for by banks, landlords and the tax authority."}]}]}
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