How to get a MEXICO Tourist Visa | Mexico Visa on Arrival

You want to know more about the Mexican tourist visa? You've come to the right video. We'll discuss a little bit about the countries that don't need a Mexican tourist visa, what you need to get your Mexican tourist visa, and all the strings that are attached to it. All that and more in this video coming up. Hey, I'm Nicholas Dembski from The Single Dad Nomad, and I'm on a mission to help people live better worldwide. And today I'm going to be talking about the Mexican tourist visa. So if you want to go visit Mexico and you're wondering how to get there, this is just one of several videos I'm going to make. You can check out the rest of those videos in my Move to Mexico series. But for now, let's talk about the Mexican tourist visa. In order to get a Mexican tourist visa, you need four things. You need a passport with six months of validity and some clear pages to enter the visa. You need your customs declaration form. You need your immigration documents. And you need your entrance fee. Now they may also ask for other things too to confirm your itinerary. They may ask for things like your hotel reservations, your onward flights, tour tickets. I've never been asked for that at the border of Mexico, but it is a possibility if you enter on the Mexican tourist visa. Make sure that anything they give back to you while you're going through customs that you hang on to it. You're going to get some pieces of paper from them. Keep those within your passport. Do not lose them or you could face fines and delays later when you try to leave the country. Now, thankfully, not everyone needs a Mexican tourist visa if they want to go to Mexico. In fact, there are at least 78 regions and countries that don't need a Mexican tourist visa. They can just enter into Mexico for 180 days, roughly, visa free. If you are from one of those 78 regions or countries, then no, you don't need a Mexican tourist visa. You can just enter in without one. You will instead be given an FMM, or in Spanish, La Forma Migratoria Multiple. P.S., if you want to learn Spanish, you can hit up a link down in the description box that'll give you 20% off a yearly subscription to Babbel to learn Spanish como yo. The FMM you will usually receive on the plane from the flight attendants or you will get them from the port of entry if you cross via land. You can also get one at the port of call if you visit from a cruise ship. In that case, it will only be issued for up to 21 days tops. Now, let's get down to it. Also, if you're looking to Mexico, my daughter and I made a video called 15 Reasons We're Glad We Moved to Mexico. I'll link it up here and I'll put it down in the description box for you if you want to check that out. On to the tourist visas, you are going to get them for 180 days tops. Now, the officers at the border, they do have some discretion in that. They can give you less. So, make sure that you open up your passport and look to see how many days they wrote into it. And of course, these 180 days are for only unpaid activities that can include things like volunteering or studying in a program that's less than six months. Transit and business meetings are also included and anything else as long as no monetary earnings will be derived from your activities in Mexico. The Mexican tourist visa cannot be extended. Even if it's initially issued for less than 180 days, you cannot extend it up to that 180 days. So, try and make sure that you get that 180 days as you cross the border. I mentioned this briefly earlier, but if you lose your FMM, you're going to have to get another one. Now, you're going to need to go to an immigration office. They'll be around your city or they'll be within the airport itself. They're called INM and there you'll have to pick up your new FMM. There is going to be a fee and you want to do this before your flight. Significantly before because if you try to do it immediately as you're trying to get on your flight, you might miss that flight due to delays. And that's because you'll have to go to immigration, apply for your replacement, then go to the bank, pay for the fee, and then come back with your receipt and then receive your replacement card. It's possible that you might accidentally overstay your limit while you're in Mexico. I don't recommend that, but if that does happen, just realize that you are placing yourself in a position where you could face delays when you're trying to get onto your flight. You might not make your flight and you can also be hit with fines. Now, I've read that fines can get up into the hundreds of dollars. So, be very careful. Make sure you read how many days you have in the country. If it's 180, don't just think, oh, I have six months because there's some months where there are more than 30 days or less than 30 days. So, you actually have to calculate that out. A good way to do that is just to go into Google, type in the day that you landed and say 180 days from now, and it'll show you the day that you're going to need to leave. So, that's everything you need to know about the Mexican tourist visa. If you appreciated this video, please subscribe. I'll make some more like it. Like the video and let me know down in the comments if you have any more questions about moving to Mexico. I'll see you next time. Peace.