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DianaT
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Passport question
We have some friends who want to visit us in Bahia Asuncion, but do not have passports yet.
Are they now enforcing this at the border? They will be driving.
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Diane
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Dave
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Not yet.
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Bob and Susan
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you only need birth cert for visa
and drivers license to get back
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You might want to tell your friends to be persistant at the Immagration office if the officer doesn't want to accept their birth certificates and
insists they need a passport for a visa. Thats happened to me a couple of times before.
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Bajahowodd
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As long as they don't stay until June.
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Mulegena
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Don't wait 'til Ensenada
to get visas to Mexico. They'll give it, yes, but throw a fine on top of it and give you the baddeye to boot, says a friend who crossed in last week.
Get your visa at a border crossing.
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
As long as they don't stay until June. |
Is that the deadline now?
Thanks for all the information.
Diane
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passports are processing very fast now, usually less than 2 weeks, are they traveling before then?
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Just wanted to support what Bajanuts said about the quick turnaround on passports---my friend had hers returned so quickly she figured there must have
been a problem until she opened the envelope--got it renewed in LESS than two weeks.
wOW! Will wonders never cerase?
Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without.
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Bajahowodd
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A fine for getting a visa (I assume you're talking FMT)? One is not necessary to visit Ensenada. And one of duties at the Port office is to issue
them. Can't understand the problem.
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Mulegena
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Get your FM-T (tourist visa to Mexico) at the border crossing
| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
A fine for getting a visa (I assume you're talking FMT)? One is not necessary to visit Ensenada. And one of duties at the Port office is to issue
them. Can't understand the problem. |
No, a visa is not needed to go to Ensenada, but to go further south one is. The Ensenada Port Office issued my friends their tourist visas and
whacked them with a fine for not getting one at the border! Dunno??? Just reporting what happened to them.
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Sallysouth
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Read the post, they said Bahia Asuncion, further south than Ensenada. Never been there but sure wish I could be there!Shari is the hostess with the
mostess!!!
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Mulegena
No, a visa is not needed to go to Ensenada, but to go further south one is. |
Keerect. One week [used to be 72 hours] in the free zone without an FMT. That includes Ensenada.
Now, I remember well of the past when that statement, one week as opposed to 72 hours, was met with strong resistance here. I only say it because
it is what I was told at the Ensenada immigration office by an agent. I can only assume he knew what he was talking about.
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Bajahowodd
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Methinks the guy at the Ensenada Port Office stuffed his pocket. Unless, as Dennis pointed out, your friend had been hanging around the border area
for some time and just happened to mention it.
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I drove through TJ, overnight at GN, and kept driving all the way to La Paz. Arrived in La Paz Thursday evening. Saturday afternoon someone
mentioned FMT or similar, which I hadn't even considered! Monday morning I was at the immigration office on the malecon for my 6 month tourist
papers. I'm pretty sure I didn't get any fines for not getting it at the border. Maybe because I could have come off a boat or who knows what.
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Nothing's required to visit San Felipe either for 72 hours. But the local immigration office win NOT issue FMTs at all. The airport will only issue
FMTs to people arriving by air. They said this has been a rule for about a year now. (they told me that the stamp for FMTs was taken from the office
when the rule was first set up)
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Apparently a lot depends on which agent you get stuck with. Last Feb. my cousins and I crossed at Tecate to go to Guerrero Negro. I have been
checked in the past at G.N., so to save problems always pick it up at Tecate. In the past I've used my alien registration card and with a little
talking managed to get my visa. This time, he said, "Passeport ! ! !" "No passport.....alien registration," I said. Back and forth, and he got
pretty hot. We went ahead to Ensenada, paid the fine and got my visa at the Port office. I wasn't happy, but what are you gonna do ?? Best to have
your ducks in a row......it could spoil a vacation.
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaNuts
passports are processing very fast now, usually less than 2 weeks, are they traveling before then? |
Two weeks? That is fast. Thanks
Diane
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Bajahowodd
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I still want to know why there is this supposed fine to pay in Ensenada. It makes no sense, since just being at the Ensenada port doesn't require a
visa. Several years ago, we went in to the immigration office at San Ysidro, only to find it empty. We waited like 15 minutes, and left. I assume the
officer had needed to take a dump and brought a magazine with him. Anyway, we pulled into the Port Office in Ensenada, and got our FMTs with no hassle
and no fine.
On the other hand, we were once hassled at the same San Ysidro crossing because he would not accept my wife's birth certificate. He demanded a
passport, which we had not brought. So, while I am not proud, nor do I condone it, we proceded South without FMTs. Went to Guerrero Negro and back and
were never asked for them.
This brings me to another point. We have driven up and down Baja for decades. We have been requested to show our FMT one time- That at the state line
by Guerrero Negro. Honestly, one time.
Finally, for all you would be smugglers, the fastest time we ever encountered traveling from Cabo to the border happened on the weekend when Calderone
was elected. Don't know the specific reason, but NONE of the military checkpoints were manned. We just kept driving through.
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FYI
my insurance states that failure to obtain a valid tourist visa will void insurance if involved in a wreck where you are required to have an FMT.....
one more pato for the row......
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