| Pages:
1
2 |
sc-surfer
Junior Nomad
Posts: 31
Registered: 10-27-2008
Member Is Offline
|
|
Assistance with Residency paperwork
In looking for someone reputable and trustworthy to help us with getting either temporary or permanent residency status. Can you recommend someone?
We are located in central California so someone based in Baja would be ideal.
Thanks Nomads.
Vanagon Syncro Westfalia
|
|
|
Bajazly
Senior Nomad
Posts: 994
Registered: 6-4-2015
Location: Goodbye Cali and Hello San Felipe
Member Is Offline
Mood: More Relaxed Everyday
|
|
There is a lady named Reyna her in San Felipe who helped me and she is good.
Believing is religion - Knowing is science
Harald Pietschmann
"Get off the beaten path and memories, friends and new techniques are developed"
Bajazly, August 2019
|
|
|
sc-surfer
Junior Nomad
Posts: 31
Registered: 10-27-2008
Member Is Offline
|
|
awesome. Thanks for the replies!
Monte
Vanagon Syncro Westfalia
|
|
|
boe4fun
Super Nomad
Posts: 1040
Registered: 1-22-2006
Location: Margaritaville
Member Is Offline
Mood: Circling the drain........
|
|
I highly recommend Alba Walker at the Paper Chase Company in La Paz. Are you on the central coast? We live in Santa Margarita.
Two dirt roads diverged in Baja and I, I took the one less graveled by......
Soy ignorante, apático y ambivalente. No lo sé y no me importa, ni modo.
|
|
|
mjs
Nomad
Posts: 305
Registered: 2-20-2013
Location: Off grid in San Felipe
Member Is Offline
|
|
Unless the process has changed you have to start the paperwork at a local consulate. We used the one in Oxnard but there may be one closer to you.
Application, interview, proof of financial responsibility, etc all done there. Then you get a visa attached to your passport that you take to the
local immigration office where you plan to reside. Small amount of paperwork and a few weeks later you collect your residency card.
All the information was online at the consulate website when we did it.
|
|
|
surabi
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3221
Registered: 5-6-2016
Member Is Offline
|
|
Correct- you have to apply for residency at a Mexican consulate outside of Mexico, so a facilitator in Mexico won't do you any good. Different
consulates apparently vary a bit in what they require The folks at the consulate will tell you what you need to bring in for your application. Once it
is approved, you have 6 months to report to INM in Mexico to complete the process, and 30 days after you cross the border.
Once it is in motion at INM, you can't leave the country until it is completed. (In case of some emergency situation where you had to leave, you need
to get special permission from INM or you'll have to restart the process from scratch at a consulate)
[Edited on 9-3-2023 by surabi]
[Edited on 9-3-2023 by surabi]
|
|
|
stillnbaja
Junior Nomad
Posts: 92
Registered: 5-4-2023
Member Is Offline
|
|
there is an alternative....at least here in baja the regularization program is still in effect, really helps anyone that can't quite make the
financial requirements.
https://www.mexperience.com/mexico-offers-special-residency-...
|
|
|
surabi
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3221
Registered: 5-6-2016
Member Is Offline
|
|
That program is for people who came in on a tourist permit before January 2020 and have never left, living in Mexico illegally since the permit
expired.
It was instituted during Covid lockdowns and travel restrictions to address tourists being stuck in Mexico with expired permits.
You can't just enter Mexico now on a tourist permit, let it expire, and apply under that program.
|
|
|
BajaMama
Super Nomad
Posts: 1106
Registered: 10-4-2015
Location: Pleasanton/Punta Chivato
Member Is Offline
Mood: Got Baja fever!!
|
|
Three questions:
Is there an immigration office in Santa Rosalia?
Once I have Permanent Residency, can I purchase an automobile in Mexico?
If the answer to second question is yes, do I need a Mexican driver's license to purchase a car.
Not looking for "South Dakota plates" type work-arounds, just the law.
|
|
|
AKgringo
Elite Nomad
Posts: 5831
Registered: 9-20-2014
Location: Anchorage, AK (no mas!)
Member Is Offline
Mood: Retireded
|
|
Quote: Originally posted by BajaMama  |
Once I have Permanent Residency, can I purchase an automobile in Mexico?
Do I need a Mexican driver's license to purchase a car.
Not looking for "South Dakota plates" type work-arounds, just the law. |
Good questions! Another factor is that there are cars and trucks available in Mexico that were never allowed to be imported to the US.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
|
|
|
surabi
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3221
Registered: 5-6-2016
Member Is Offline
|
|
Anyone can buy a Mexican-plated car, even someone here on a tourist visa. The issue is just registering it in one's name. But no problem registering
it if you are a resident.
One thing you will need to get, though, is an RFC (Mexican tax number), which is now required for many things, even if you don't have to file or pay
any taxes.
|
|
|
karenintx
Senior Nomad
Posts: 535
Registered: 3-16-2008
Location: CSL
Member Is Offline
Mood: Living The Dream
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by BajaMama | Three questions:
Is there an immigration office in Santa Rosalia?
Once I have Permanent Residency, can I purchase an automobile in Mexico?
If the answer to second question is yes, do I need a Mexican driver's license to purchase a car.
Not looking for "South Dakota plates" type work-arounds, just the law. |
Yes, you should have a MX driver's license when driving a MX plated vehicle. That is what we were told by the CSL MX DMV.
|
|
|
shari
Select Nomad
Posts: 13034
Registered: 3-10-2006
Location: bahia asuncion, baja sur
Member Is Offline
Mood: there is no reality except the one contained within us "Herman Hesse"
|
|
there is a very astute lawyer in Sta.Rosalia who specializes in getting expats residency lickety split. Jorge Vargas 615 112 5260 and tell him that
Shari Bondy from Asuncion sent you and he will treat you right!
|
|
|
surabi
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3221
Registered: 5-6-2016
Member Is Offline
|
|
No offense to you or your lawyer, sheri, but it isn't necessary to use the services of a lawyer to get residency. All one needs to do is present the
required documents the consulate tells one they need. People do it every day on their own, and some report getting the approval within a day.
Then it is just a matter of going to an INM office in Mexico for the finalization, which also doesn't require a lawyer.
|
|
|
BajaMama
Super Nomad
Posts: 1106
Registered: 10-4-2015
Location: Pleasanton/Punta Chivato
Member Is Offline
Mood: Got Baja fever!!
|
|
Good information. Thank you.
|
|
|
Grenadiers
Junior Nomad
Posts: 27
Registered: 7-25-2019
Member Is Offline
|
|
FYI, with the temporary resident visa, you have to renew it each year. Similar price as to the first year. And less paperwork, we own a house in
Mulege, so the latest CFE bill is required and we download the form and fill it out ahead with f time. Still a PIA each year.
|
|
|
surabi
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3221
Registered: 5-6-2016
Member Is Offline
|
|
That is incorrect. No, you don't have to renew temp residency every year.
You have to renew it after the first year, and can get it for the following 3 years at that point.
|
|
|
stillnbaja
Junior Nomad
Posts: 92
Registered: 5-4-2023
Member Is Offline
|
|
I just received my TR card and yes the "regularization" program is alive and well in the tijuana/rosarito/ensenada area. all four years plus all fees
were paid together......for my money using a facilitator was well worth the cost, ymmv
|
|
|
Udo
Elite Nomad
Posts: 6326
Registered: 4-26-2008
Location: Black Hills, SD/Ensenada/San Felipe
Member Is Offline
Mood: TEQUILA!
|
|
| Quote: Originally posted by surabi | Correct- you have to apply for residency at a Mexican consulate outside of Mexico, so a facilitator in Mexico won't do you any good. Different
consulates apparently vary a bit in what they require The folks at the consulate will tell you what you need to bring in for your application. Once it
is approved, you have 6 months to report to INM in Mexico to complete the process, and 30 days after you cross the border.
Once it is in motion at INM, you can't leave the country until it is completed. (In case of some emergency situation where you had to leave, you need
to get special permission from INM or you'll have to restart the process from scratch at a consulate)
[Edited on 9-3-2023 by surabi] |
The United States should do the same thing in regards to people who want to get residency papers in the USA.
Udo
Youth is wasted on the young!
|
|
|
surabi
Ultra Nomad
Posts: 3221
Registered: 5-6-2016
Member Is Offline
|
|
I used a facilitator once, an immigration lawyer, the first time I applied for temporary residency, because I was applying for a "lucrativa" temp-
permission to open a business and work here, because the paperwork was more complicated than the regular temp visa and I didn't want to blow it.
Other than that, I have dealt with everything else on my own for the 20 years I have lived here (several years of which my Spanish was quite poor),
including business licenses, getting a tax number and filing taxes, registering vehicles, getting driver's licenses, etc.
|
|
|
| Pages:
1
2 |
![[*]](images/xmbforum/default_icon.gif){kind=icon}
