Requisitos para los visitantes extranjeros que pretendan internarse y permanecer en M\u00e9xico en condici\u00f3n de residente temporal por un per\u00edodo mayor a 180 d\u00edas y menor a 4 a\u00f1os.<\/em><\/p>\n Requirements for foreign visitors who want to enter and stay in Mexico as a temporary resident for more than 180 days, but less than four years.<\/strong><\/p>\n Formato de solicitud de visa impreso en una hoja, por ambos lados, debidamente completado y firmado.<\/em><\/p>\n Visa request form printed on one sheet (both sides), duly completed and signed.<\/strong><\/p>\n My mother showed me how to make her printer do this, thankfully! I opened the form in Adobe so that I could use the typewriter tool to fill it out. The form is in English, but where I could, I answered in Spanish.<\/p>\n One of the questions is “reason for the visit.” I wrote that I want to discover a new culture and improve my Spanish.<\/p>\n Pasaporte o documento de identidad y viaje v\u00e1lido y vigente, en original y copia de la p\u00e1gina donde aparecen la fotograf\u00eda y los datos personales.<\/em><\/p>\n Passport or other identity document valid for travel, both the original and a copy of the page with the photograph and personal information.<\/strong><\/p>\n I brought two copies of the passport page.<\/p>\n Una fotograf\u00eda de 3.9 cm x 3.1 cm con el rostro descubierto, sin anteojos, de frente, a color y con fondo blanco.<\/em><\/p>\n A photo 3.9cm x 3.1 cm with the face uncovered, no glasses, from the front, in colour, and on a white background.<\/strong><\/p>\n This was surprisingly tricky since the requirements are not the same as for a passport photo in Canada. So I had to go to a dedicated studio and pay for a photo there (about $17 with the tax, very fair). Lo and behold, the photographer is Mexican! She was perplexed by the instructions because it wasn’t clear if the dimensions were for the face within the photo or the photo itself, which made a big difference. A common format in Mexico is “infantil,” but that doesn’t match the information provided. She decided to make the photo itself 3.9cm x 3.1cm and make my face within the photo as big as possible while still having some background visible. Spoiler: the photo was fine.<\/p>\n Pago de derechos en efectivo por la expedici\u00f3n de visa.<\/em><\/p>\n Payment of the visa fees<\/a>\u00a0in cash. That linked to a page in Spanish only where there was a range of visa fees ranging from not much to hundreds of dollars. I was pretty sure that I wanted “Visas a pasaportes extranjeros,” for $49.<\/p>\n Adicionalmente, se deben presentar los siguientes documentos de acuerdo a la categor\u00eda solicitada:<\/em><\/p>\n Also, you must present one of the following documents in accordance to the category under which you’re applying:<\/strong><\/p>\n a. Solvencia econ\u00f3mica:<\/em><\/p>\n Economic solvency<\/strong><\/p>\n Original y copia de comprobante de inversiones o cuentas bancarias con saldo promedio mensual de $27,654.00 d\u00f3lares canadienses durante los \u00faltimos doce meses; u<\/em><\/p>\n Original y copia de los documentos que demuestren que cuenta con empleo o pensi\u00f3n con ingresos mensuales libres de impuestos por un monto superior a $1,659.00 d\u00f3lares canadienses durante los \u00faltimos seis meses.<\/em><\/p>\n Original and copies\u00a0of statements of investments showing a monthly balance of $27,654.00 Canadian dollars during the last 12 months, OR<\/strong><\/p>\n Original and copies of documents that prove that you have monthly employment or pension income of more than $1,659.00 Canadian dollars after taxes during the last six months.<\/strong><\/p>\n Because I am self-employed and my money comes into different accounts (PayPal mostly, but I have some direct deposits into chequing and wire transfers into a USD account), I don’t have nice neat monthly bank statements\u00a0that show that I make the necessary income. So I preferred to bring my investment statements as they\u00a0are very clear and there is\u00a0no puzzle to put together.<\/p>\n But, not being a stranger to Mexican red tape and being a belts and suspenders kind of gal, I also prepared the following:<\/p>\n -12 months of chequing account statements showing an average monthly ingress of\u00a0just barely more than the\u00a0minimum needed;<\/p>\n -a print-off of 12 months of PayPal ingresses in support of the bank statements. PayPal, frustratingly, doesn’t have nice neat statements every months, so that was the best I could do;<\/p>\n -a print-off of a list of my invoices for the last 12 months in support of the PayPal document and which is the most complete look of my income over a period of time. I did a total for the 12 months I printed off, converted it to CAD (99% of my income is in USD), and then divided by 12 to show my monthly average income.<\/p>\n This is what my pile of paper looked like when I was done. Disclaimer: the investment statements are four pages each (both sides), so 12 statements x 4 pages x 2 copies = 96 pages for that alone!<\/p>\n
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