Retired Life in Mexico NO BULL
12Jan
Mexican Immigration Trends 2022. What you need to know!

was the first YouTube Channel to cover the emerging immigration situation in several videos since it started almost a year ago. I started by covering the current immigration computer upgrades and plans to curb individuals abusing the Mexican Immigration system by overstaying their visa with little to no recourse and gaining back to back 180 day tourist permits. I know that this met a lot of resistance amongst the YouTube and Facebook community, but I felt it was important to bring this relevant information to the Expat community no matter how unpopular it may have seemed at the time.

Now individuals are facing increased issues when trying to obtain tourist permits when arriving at several airports in Mexico. People are consistently posting their experience of not getting the time they requested or 180 days as expected which a normal practice in the past.

So what can we expect to see from Mexican Immigration in this coming year? In today’s videos I am going to try and break down future immigration trends here in Mexico. I am also going to try to give possible explanations of why this is happening and dispel some myths floating around on social media.
25Nov
Breaking News!!! Official FMM Travel Guide Released by Mexican Immigration on Facebook!

I know that there has been a lot of confusion lately with obtaining a visitors FMM when entering Mexico. Just yesterday INM officially released a travel guide on their Facebook Page outlining the requirements for obtaining a tourist FMM. Although this guide was actually published on the INM website on June 29th 2021, INM just finished publishing it on their official Facebook page.

The guide is in Spanish but In this video, I am going to go over this Official INM guide in detail.

Hopefully this is the beginning of a more consistent policy on the issuances of tourist FMMs.
28Aug
Mexican Immigration Crackdowns. What you need to know? Let’s talk about it!
Recently I posted a video about living in Mexico permently on what I call tourist visa, also known as an FMM. This is what is known in the expat community as the perpetual tourist. Just shortly after my video was posted Mexican Immigration started a major operation to crack down on illegal immigration. There have been reports on the internet of Immigration checks at roadway checkpoints and people being randomly asked for their immigration documents. There have also been reports of Americans being deported for overstaying their tourist FMM. I personally experienced this when I recently took a flight from Cancun to Monterrey. I was randomly selected at the Cancun airport to show my residency card and they scanned it with a phopne app in order to verify it’s authenticity.

Unfortunately this has the expat community worried and confused that somehow this operation is targeting the expat community. Today, in this video I am going to address what is actually happening and hopefully dispel some misconceptions. Also, although I will be covering what is currently going on, my advice will still be valid for the future whether there is an immigration enforcement effort or not in the future.