- You want to know more about the Mexican tourist visa?
You've come to the right video.
We'll discuss a little bit about the countries
that don't need a Mexican tourist visa,
what you need to get your Mexican tourist visa,
and all the strings that are attached to it.
All that and more in this video coming up.
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Hey, I'm Nicholas Demski from The Single Dad Nomad,
and I'm on a mission to help people live better worldwide.
And today, I'm going to be talking about
the Mexican tourist visa.
So I you want to go visit Mexico
and you're wondering how to get there,
this is just one of several videos I'm going to make.
You can check out the rest of those videos
in my Move to Mexico series.
But for now, let's talk about the Mexican tourist visa.
In order to get a Mexican tourist visa,
you need four things.
You need a passport with six months of validity
and some clear pages to enter the visa.
You need your Customs declaration form.
You need your immigration documents.
And you need your entrance fee.
Now they also may ask for other things, too,
to confirm your itinerary.
They may ask for things like your hotel reservations,
your onward flights, tour tickets.
I've never been asked for that at the border of Mexico,
but it is a possibility if you enter
on the Mexican tourist visa.
Make sure that anything they give back to you
while you're going through Customs that you hang onto it.
You're gonna get some pieces of paper from them.
Keep those within your passport.
Do not lose them or you could face fines
and delays later when you try to leave the country.
Now thankfully, not everyone needs a Mexican tourist visa
if they want to go to Mexico.
In fact, there are at least 78 regions and countries
that don't need a Mexican tourist visa.
They can just enter into Mexico
for 180 days roughly, visa-free.
If you are from one of those 78 regions or countries,
then no, you don't need a Mexican tourist visa.
You can just enter in without one.
You will instead be given an FMM,
or in Spanish, (speaking in a foreign language).
PS, if you want to learn Spanish,
you can hit up a link down in the description box.
It'll give you 20% off a yearly subscription to Babble
to learn Spanish (speaking in a foreign language).
The FMM you will usually receive on the plane
from the flight attendants,
or you will get them from the port of entry
if you cross via land.
You can also get one at the port of call
if you're visiting from a cruise ship.
In that case, it will only be issued for up to 21 days tops.
Now, let's get down to it.
Also, if you're looking to Mexico,
my daughter and I made a video called
15 Reasons We're Glad We Moved to Mexico.
I'll link it up here and I'll put it down
in the description box for you if you wanna check that out.
On to the tourist visas.
You are going to get them for 180 days tops.
Now, the officers at the border,
they do have some discretion in that,
and they can give you less.
So make sure you open up your passport and look to see
how many days they wrote into it.
And of course, these 180 days
are for only unpaid activities.
That can include things like volunteering
or studying in a program that's less than six months.
Transit and business meetings are also included.
An anything else as long as no monetary earnings
will be derived from your activities in Mexico.
The Mexican tourist visa cannot be extended.
Even if it's initially issued for less than 180 days,
you cannot extend it up to that 180 days.
So try and make sure that you get that 180 days
as you cross the border.
I mentioned this briefly earlier,
but if you lose your FMM,
you're going to have to get another one.
And you're going to need to go to an Immigration office.
They'll be around your city.
Or they'll be within the airport itself.
They're called INM.
And there, you'll have to pick up your new FMM.
There is going to be a fee.
And you want to do this before your flight,
significantly before,
because if you try to do it immediately
as you're trying to get on your flight,
you might miss that flight due to delays.
And that's because you'll have to go to Immigration,
apply for your replacement, then go to the bank,
pay for the fee, and then come back with your receipt,
and then receive your replacement card.
It's possible that you might accidentally overstay
your limit while you're in Mexico.
I don't recommend that.
But if that doesn't happen,
just realize that you are placing yourself in a position
where you could face delays when you're trying
to get on your flight.
You might not make your flight.
And you can also be hit with fines.
Now, I've read that fines can get up
into the hundreds of dollars.
So be very careful.
Make sure you read how many days you have in the country.
If it's 180, don't just think, oh, I have six months,
because there's some months were there are more than 30 days
or less than 30 days.
So you actually have to calculate that out.
A good way to do that is just to go into Google,
type in the day that you landed,
and say 180 days from now,
and it'll show you the day
that you're going to need to leave.
So that's everything you need to know
about the Mexican tourist visa.
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Like the video and let me know down in the comments
if you have any more questions about moving to Mexico.
I'll see you next time, peace.