Residency & Visas
Lost Mexican Resident Card: How to Replace It With INM
Losing the card does not cancel your residency, but you need INM's reposición before life gets complicated at banks, notaries and airports.
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Residency & Visas
Mexico Family Unity Residency: Who Qualifies and How to Apply
Family unity (unidad familiar) lets relatives join a Mexican or a foreign resident without meeting the income test. Who counts as family, where to apply and what INM asks for.
Residency & Visas
How to Renew a Mexican Temporary Resident Card
The renewal window opens 30 days before your card expires. What INM asks for, what it costs in 2026 and how renewals lead to permanent status.
Residency & Visas
How to Get Temporary Residency in Mexico: Income, Savings, Steps
The visa comes from a Mexican consulate outside Mexico, the card from INM after you land. The money test is set in UMA, and each consulate prints its own figures.
Residency & Visas
Mexico Permanent Residency Requirements: The Main Routes
Pensioners can apply at a consulate; most others reach permanent status after four years of temporary residency or through family ties.
Residency & Visas
Working Remotely in Mexico Legally: Visas, Permits and Taxes
Mexico's Migration Law has no remote-work category. How visitor status, temporary residency and work permits apply to people paid from abroad, and where tax fits in.
Residency & Visas
INM Exit and Return Permit: Traveling While Your Case Is Pending
A canje, renewal or change of status that is still open ties you to Mexico. The permiso de salida y regreso is how INM lets you travel and come back to the same file.
Residency & Visas
Student Residency in Mexico: When You Need It and How to Apply
A semester at UNAM, a master's degree or a long language program: which status you need, what the consulate asks for, how the card is renewed and the narrow rules on paid work.
Residency & Visas
What Is a CURP in Mexico and How Foreign Residents Get One
You probably already have one: INM normally assigns the CURP when it issues your resident card. How to print it, where it is needed and how to fix mistakes.
Residency & Visas
INM Canje in Mexico City: Swapping Your Visa for a Resident Card
The 30-day clock starts when you land. Here is where to go in Mexico City, what to bring, how to pay and what you cannot do while the card is pending.