I own a lease on a house in Mexico so I understand I need more than a tourist card to legally sign the lease.
I visited the Mexican Consulate in Calexico Friday to get the "starting" paperwork. I rece'd a Visa Application and a minimal info sheet for
"Temporary Mexican Resident Visa."
Does anyone know of a good online link to show this process works?
I'd like to show up again at the Consultate with paperwork in hand, go over to Mexicali to get I don't know what (photos, notarized copies, etc) and
complete the process. I've heard of a 30 day window so that makes it seem more straightforward to pursue this in Mexicali.
thoughts?CP - 10-11-2014 at 12:22 PM
rollybrook.com
taught us everything we needed to know for a painless consulate visit and visa process completion
[Edited on 10-11-2014 by CP]MontyF - 10-12-2014 at 08:52 AM
Thank you. Helpful link!dirtydieseldave - 10-12-2014 at 10:38 AM
Originally posted by MontyF
I own a lease on a house in Mexico so I understand I need more than a tourist card to legally sign the lease.
who told you that?Alm - 10-12-2014 at 05:15 PM
You don't need any status to sign a lease, but it can be a pain in the ars later to prove anything if you don't have a legal standing in Mex court
regarding property and lease issues. I don't think that a tourist visa gives you such a standing. You can't "own" anything in Mexico as a tourist,
you are not supposed to have anything there when you're gone. As a side note, they do allow tourists to buy property, but the law "assumes" that such
a tourist is planning to become a temporary or permanent resident because again a tourist is not supposed to leave anything behind. Back to the lease
- for a tourist, signing a lease is merely reassurance, more in his mind than anything else.
Alm, what you are describing is the new law that just went into effect mid Sept.2014.....
In the past anyone on a tourist car could buy property in Mexico, in fact on the old FMM forms it stated as much....
I bought my first beach house with an FMT and my ranch with an FMM...
Now you have to have a Resident visa to buy or sell property......BajaUtah - 10-13-2014 at 07:40 AM
MontyF
What is going to goof up your plan is that the trip to Immigration in Mexicali is not a 1 day in and out and once you start the process in Mexico you
are not legally allowed to leave without an official exit letter. That exit letter took us 5 days in Cabo. Once you start the process in Mexico it
will take at least 10 days for your appointment for fingerprinting. After the fingerprinting it takes a few weeks until your card is ready to pick up.
Unless you have a place to stay in Mexico while this process is ongoing (at least until the exit letter is available) you are going to have to take
your chances hoping back and forth over the border
That's my experience from last January. We did it on a fly in/out basis so that extra trip for fingerprinting was an unexpected time and expense. And
we get to do it all again this January for the 1 year renewal on our RT cards. Your experience could well be different.Alm - 10-13-2014 at 11:10 AM
I agree with Bob and Susan - from a practical point of view, they don't need a temporary or permanent resident status to sign a lease. Landlord
doesn't care. INM doesn't view this as a violation either, because leasing from somebody is just buying a service, not "owning" anything. If at some
time in future the landlord will screw them up, hike the rent or terminate the lease, it would be a royal pain to deal with this in the court even if
they had all the rights of Mex residents. Just my 2 cents.
