DianaT
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Passport and FM3 question
When we obtained our first FM3s at the Mexican Consulate in San Diego, they taped a "visa" with photo and all on one of the pages of our US passports.
We just renewed our US passports which means we no longer have that "visa". Has anyone had a problem with this?
We need to renew our FM3s soon and just don't want any surprises.
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vandenberg
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Diane,
Have been through FM3/2 and permanent inmigrado and never had anything entered into my passport.
[Edited on 3-18-2012 by vandenberg]
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redmesa
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I just have the FM3 card. They never did anything to my passport.
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by vandenberg
Diane,
Have been through FM3/2 and permanent inmigrado and never had anything entered into my passport.
[Edited on 3-18-2012 by vandenberg] |
Maybe the addition of the visa was because we obtained the FM3 at the Mexican Consulate in San Diego. When we have renewed at GN nothing more has
been added. ??
So if yours never had anything added, then I assume we should be ok.
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rts551
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Diane. same happened to us. Its because of the consulate
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chuckie
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I also had the FM3 taped into my passport...Shouldnt do you any good if it has expired tho..Start all over is what I was told..FYI; I have all my old
passports..t
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by morgaine7
They didn't return your old passport when you got the new one? I'm on passport #6, and the old one has been returned to me every time I've renewed. I
have all of them. |
Yes, they returned it and we will save it with the other old ones.
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They stopped issuing FM3s the San Diego consulate in 2010. We got ours there, including the addition of the visa to our US passports but the FM3s
required a stamp at the border to "activate" them. Then we were denied the stamp at the border and required to get new FM3s at the "city of our
residence" which is San Felipe....well kinda..we live 100 miles south of there. Paid another $350 of course. Got FM3 cards.
We are currently in the process of renewing the FM3s and it seems to be going better than last year...and better than 2010 of course too..not double.
The process last year was delayed for a long, long time because the computer system the San Felipe Migration office used to talk to Mexico City was
"down" a lot.
I love Mexico and Mexicans but it would be just super if we required about 10% of what Mexico requires of us Gringo visitors for Mexicans to come to
the USA!
But then NOBODY would work in the good ole USA. Mexicans, legal and illegal, are about 80% (no exaggeration) of those who actually work up here in
San Diego.
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meme
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FM-3
Just curious? Are you paing $420.00 for it or $312.00
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rts551
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Bucko
"I love Mexico and Mexicans but it would be just super if we required about 10% of what Mexico requires of us Gringo visitors for Mexicans to come to
the USA! "
For legal entry, the process is much more costly and difficult to come to the US. Your FM-3 is to live in Mexico. A Mexican has a much more costly
and time consuming process to live in the US. Just a visitors VISA is a difficult and arduous process for them and a relatively small affair for US
travelers.
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bonanza bucko
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$420 and I was talking about illegals....about 95% of the bunch.
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