Whats is FM 3 in mexico?

Question

Whats is FM 3 in mexico?

Answer 1

Hola!  A FM3 is a permit to live and work in Mexico for a year.  Often, your workplace will sponsor your application.  If you are retired, then you must submit confirmation of income.  Everyone else comes here in a tourist visa which is only good for 180 days...so if you plan to stay longer you have to have a FM2 or 3 in place!

Answer 2

An FM-3 is a one-year permit to reside in Mexico. This document makes the holder a No Inmigrante (Non-Immigrant) like the tourist card does but, unlike the tourist card, it allows you to live in the country for an extended period of time. The document must be renewed each year as long as you continue to reside in Mexico. After your fifth year with an FM-3, you can either upgrade to an FM-2 or simply request a new FM-3.

Answer 3

The FM3 Visa

An FM3 Visa allows you to remain in Mexico for up to one year at a time. At the end of each year, the FM3 Visa may be renewed (renewals should be requested 30 days before the expiration date of the visa). With an FM3 Visa, you may leave and enter Mexico freely, at any time, and you are allowed to work in Mexico. Getting an FM3 makes bringing your household items (including one car) into Mexico very easy.

Besides the list below, you need to submit a request letter ... but here in Manzanillo they give you a questionnaire that they then take the information from and complete the request letter for you.  You just sign it!

You will need to submit the following:

Your passport and copies of every page.

  

Proof of income. This figure changes constantly. It is based on minimum wage (250 times the minimum wage in Mexico City) and fluctuates with the exchange rate. The current amount is $13,100.00 pesos per month (half that again for a married couple). This proof could be in the form of a bank statement showing your investments generate that amount or more, it could also be a letter from your consulate stating you receive social security, a pension, etc.  

  

The monthly income requirements are possibly reduced by 50% if you own and reside in your Mexican home. If this is the case, be sure to include a notarized copy of either the deed (escritura) or trust.

  

All that is required is proof that the minimum income is deposited in any financial institution, anywhere with credibility, be it the US, Europe, or offshore institution. Even a stock brokerage account, showing the requisite income, has proved sufficient, both in obtaining an original FM-3, both within Mexico at the local immigration office and at an overseas Mexican Consulate.

  

If you are married and your spouse also wishes to apply for an FM-3, have your original marriage certificate authorized and translated at the Mexican Consulate nearest the place of marriage.

  

Proof of residence - Utility bills, rental contract, letter from the local municipio

  

A number of pictures to their specification

Once you have all of the above mentioned items, make three copies of each and submit your package to immigration.

Normally, immigration stamps the original documents plus two sets of the copies with the date it was received. They keep the originals and one set of copies, the second set is for your files. It is habit to make the third set of copies as things can sometimes get misplaced.

The administrative "Fee" is about $1400.00 Pesos for your first FM3 and $1200 following years.

http://sparks-mexico.com/Assorted/Visas/...