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MitchMan
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If you are driving in baja, be insured. If the fmm is required for your insurance to be valid, get the fmm. Case closed.
If you are not driving in Baja and there are no legal ramifications to not having an fmm since no one ever asks you to show your fmm under any and all
probable circumstances (which appears to be the case as testified to in this forum and in my own experience), why get one?
Aside from Alm above, anyone else ever get asked to show the fmm? I will admit that my wife gets asked for her fmm when we fly into TJ from La Paz on
Volaris airlines at the TJ airport when you walk through to the baggage pick up area on the way out of the airport after getting off the plane, so we
get one for her.
[Edited on 5-13-2011 by MitchMan]
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bajafam
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they are good for 180 days ~ but make sure you get that endorsement as they have stamps for shorter periods of time as well.
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Alm
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I haven't heard of 30 days limit.
As to whether FMM/TouristCard is needed - technically yes, it is.
If you are not driving in Baja, then you're flying or taking a bus.
When you fly out of Baja, FMM is needed always, no matter what airport.
When you're taking a bus via Ensenada and Tijuana - depending on their mood it might or or might not be needed in Maneadero (roadpost near Ensenada),
and there is very little chance that they will ask about it in Tijuana. I don't think they check people often at the TJ bus station. May be it's just
me a magnet for authorities - they checked my passport when I was flying out of Hawaii while I was peacefully sitting in the airport, waiting for my
plane. Take your chance and save $23 if you feel lucky, OK.
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Bajahowodd
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Maneadero? I haven't been South of Ensenada in about four months, and did hear that they did relocate the army checkpoint a bit farther North than it
had been. But not in or very near Maneadero. Not to mention that army checkpoints might ask to see your immigration documents about .001% of the time.
Or maybe less. They are not charged with immigation enforcement.
Only thing I can conclude is that Alm has been reading some very old guide books where there once was an immigration office in Maneadero. Not there
for many years.
The current law is get your docs at the border.
All said, as citizens of the US, given the outrage being voiced over border policy and illegal immigration, lest anyone would not want to appear a
hypocrite, get your doggone visas at the border. Anyone who sincerely feels that the cost is something they cannot afford is likely not a visior that
will benefit Mexico in the first place.
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J.P.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by oldtortisegrl
Thanks everyone......I'll be sure we all have our tourist cards upon leaving Ensenada. Really appreciate the discussion.
Dez |
If you wait to buy your tourist card in Ensenada you will be fined. You are now required to buy your Tourist FM at the port of entry Ensenada is not
a port of entry.
The subject of Auto Insurance Is More misunderstood than the tourist card subject MEXICO DOES NOT HAVE A MANDETORY INSURANCE LAW 95%of the locals
dont have any. BUT YOU ARE A DAMMED FOOL IF YOU DONT HAVE INS.IF YOU HAVE A ACCIDENT THEY WILL TAKE YOUR CAR AND QUITE POSSIBLY YOU WILL GO TO JAIL
UNTIL FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IS DETERMINED.
ALL THIS INFORMATION IS ON LINE. ARM YOUSELY WITH THE CORRECT INFORMATION AND THEN ENJOY YOUR JOURNEY TO THE MAX.
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J.P.
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When you purchase your tourist care they will ask you how long you are going to be in MX.If you tell them 10 days your card will reflect 10 days if
you say 180days the max your card will reflect 180days the cost is the same.
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funkynassau
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What does FMM actually stand for?
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J.P.
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FORMA MIGRATORIA MULTIPLE
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Alm
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
... get your doggone visas at the border. |
That's been my opinion too. And, - I'm not reading guide books, old or new; ain't literate, ya know... Just taking a bus overnight. Soldiers come in,
usually I'm the only gringo there, they look at my documents and then open bags in cargo hold. 2 or 3 years ago they frisked everybody on the bus -
probably were looking for weapons. Not a Maneadero - ok, heck with it. Last year it wasn't even in Baja North - the roadpost was between Loreto and St
Rosa, I didn't go farther North.
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Alm
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My typo - I said ain't literate  - roadpost was between Loreto and BOLA.
Somewhere in lower part of Baja North.
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