bajatrailrider
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Info please
Any info if any immigration check points going sur from San Vicente to Cabo. Not for me guy visiting has no passport.
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Friends recently got immigration-checked north of san felipe, north of santa Rosalia and north of la paz.
Not sure if these are permanent or temporary check stations.
I think the days of risk-free travel in baja without a passport and fmm are over. The checkpoints may not be constant, but they are frequent enough to
make immigration checks a significant probability.
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Usually there are several checkpoints around Vizcaino. One around Loreto, usually south of Loreto and several between La Paz and Los Cabo.
There often is one outside our front gate at Rancho Nuevo.
A word of advice! Do Not offer money (Pesos!) to Police officers. If thats what they want. They will let you know!
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No passport so no FMM, I guess?
The checkpoints are looking at FMMs... but since they and passports go together... yadda yadda. 
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I crossed at Mexicali west on the 25th, and was waved through without any questions. I walked back and got my FMM, and the total time spent was
probably less than twenty minutes.
I camped in the desert that night and the next morning I was waved through the inspection point north of San Felipe.
The inspection point north of Gonzaga was un-manned.
I did not pass through the station north of Guerrero Negro, I drove the dirt to Vizcaino.
I wonder if the station near San Ignacio will wave me through as well?
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mjs
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The inspection point at Gonzaga has been abandoned for several years now.
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AKgringo
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That is what I have observed as well, but last April there were several vehicles and uniformed agents or officers of some sort there. I don't know
what they were doing there because none of the lanes were being manned, but I was wondering at the time if that would be the next step.
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bajatrailrider
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Update he is almost in cabo he has expired south African passport. He just showed it at one check point away he went
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Not to cause any worry but just thought it was interesting.. My last trip in November, didn't get asked heading south to La Paz, but was checked for
passport and FMM heading NORTH at our favorite checkpoint at San Ignacio.
In that pre-Google Earth and social media epoch, The Code was adhered to. It was based on a simple verity: if a locale had been transformational for
you, and you had put the hard yards in to get there and to learn it, to know it, why in god�s name would you broadcast the news, thus ruining the
future experience not only for yourself, but for future adventurers?
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AKgringo
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I was waved through at San Inacio southbound a few days ago, and again on my northbound drive today. There were some vehicles backed up on the
southbound lane, and it looked like they were interested in an older class C motorhome.
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David K
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Random inspections at some, however the one north of San Felipe has been checking northbound pretty much all the time, per San Felipe residents' posts
on Facebook.
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bajatrailrider
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He made it to Cabo zero problems thank you all
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Good to know about FMMs being checked now!
I'd never heard of anyone checking those. I was beginning to wonder if it was worthwhile... Guess I'll keep on getting mine.
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I did not even know there was a military checkpoint north of the agricultural checkpoint by Guerrero Negro. I got waved through Guerrero Negro, but
at the military stop I got the "Where are you coming from, where are you going?"
No ID check, but they had me open the back and looked at my ice chest and grocery tote box. He did not touch anything.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
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AKgringo
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Back in the USA
I know that Trail rider got the info he needed, but I thought I might as well continue to report my experience with the checkpoints on this trip.
The final Mexican checkpoint near the Mx 5 and Mx 3 junction did the routine "where are you coming from, where are you going" but did not ask for ID,
or look in the car.
I slept in the desert south of Mexicali that night, and wound up at the west crossing Ready Line at 8:45 this morning (Wednesday the 8th). I stopped
for coffee to drink while I was in line to cross, but it was still too hot to drink by the time I passed through to the US side.
There was one car ahead of me, and total crossing time was less than five minutes! The Agen looked at my passport card, asked if I had fruit etc. and
what my dog's name was. I started to get her papers out to show proof of a microchip and shot records, but she waved me through.
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!
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