FREQUENT QUESTION/ANSWERS The Mexican government

Consulado General de México en Miami, Florida

FREQUENT

QUESTION/ANSWERS

The Mexican government requires a valid passport during your visit. Make sure you

get in touch directly with your airline as some won’t allow you to board if your passport

is to expire within six months of travel.

1. Digital Multiple Immigration Form (FMMd) (by air)

The FMMd facilitates and expedites your entry to Mexico, if you enter by air, you will

not have to fill out the Multiple Electronic Migration Form (FMMe), nor the Multiple

Migration Form in the traditional way.

The National Immigration Institute offers all foreigners who enter Mexico by air to

download their Digital Multiple Migratory Form, as a way of facilitating and

expediting immigration procedures, so it will omit the issuance of the physical

Multiple Migratory Form for those foreigners entering Mexico by air.

This registration form accredits the regular migratory situation in the modality of

Tourist, Business and others. Foreigners will have 60 calendar days to download their

FMMd after entering the country.

For more information, you should contact the National Immigration Institute

directly:

https://www.gob.mx/inm/articulos/forma-migratoria-multiple-digital-

fmmd?idiom=eses

2. Multiple Immigration Form (FMM) (by land)

Regardless of their nationality, all foreign nationals travelling to Mexico for less than

180 days (six months), have to fill a Multiple Immigration Form (FMM).

The electronic FMM applies exclusively to you who enter to Mexico territory by land,

through the border states of: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo

Leon and Tamaulipas.

With the electronic FMM, the National Immigration Institute modernizes the

procedures to facilitate your registration when entering Mexico, so you can save time

and avoid long lines.

For more information, please visit the National Immigration Institute

webpage: https://www.gob.mx/inm/articulos/agiliza-tu-entrada-a-mexico.

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Also, you can obtain the FMM at any legal Port of Entry. For further information, please

contact National Immigration Institute: https://www.gob.mx/inm.

3. Maritime Tourism

For further information, please visit: https://www.gob.mx/inm/acciones-y-

programas/ven-a-mexico-practica-pesca-deportiva-y-disfruta-del-turismo-nautico/

4. Travel with pets

For further information visit “Servicio Nacional de Sanidad, Inocuidad y Calidad

Agroalimentaria (SENASICA)”:

https://www.gob.mx/senasica/documentos/mascotas-268065?state=published

5. Temporary import of vehicles

The Consulate General of Mexico in Miami cannot process temporary import

applications. For further information, you may contact Banjército:

https://www.gob.mx/banjercito/articulos/sistema-de-importacion-temporal-de-

vehiculos?idiom=es

6. I am traveling on a cruise to Mexico, do I need a visa?

A foreigner of any country traveling to Mexico on leisure trips visiting Mexican

maritime ports by cruise, are not required to obtain a visa or consular stamp. The

passenger must carry a valid and not expired passport or travel document.

7. Criminal record.

Immigration authorities may decide to refuse the request to enter to Mexico if the

applicant is subject to a criminal process or has been convicted of a serious crime as

defined by national laws on criminal matters or provisions in international treaties or

conventions that Mexico is party to, or if the applicant’s background in Mexico or

abroad could compromise national or public security, in accordance with Article 43 of

the Migration Law. According to Article 194 of the Federal Code on Criminal

Proceedings, serious crimes include all crimes that have a significant negative effect

on the fundamental values of society. Serious crimes include, among others:

manslaughter; terrorism and international terrorism; sabotage; piracy; genocide;

prison break; attacks on public thoroughfares; drug-related crimes; corruption of

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minors; child pornography; exploitation of minors; falsifying and counterfeit of

currency; rape; highway robbery; trafficking in minors; trafficking of undocumented

persons; aggravated robbery; vehicular theft; extortion; crimes against the

environment; forced disappearance of persons; carry any type of firearms into Mexico,

or smuggling firearms to Mexico; smuggling and equal crimes, tax fraud and

comparable crimes.

There is no way to know about your case before you travel. We recommend to

contact your authorities and ask if they have shared your information with other

countries.