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.
14Nov
Is this Mexico Immigration Crisis really being blown out of proportion? Let’s talk about it!

Just recently there has been a lot of confusion about what is going on in Mexico concerning immigration.  Are Americans and Canadians getting deported? Yes.  Do I really need to carry my original immigration documents with me? Yes.  Have some people been able to get away with showing copies of their documents? Yes.  Have people been denied entry or given less than 180 days when doing border runs to renew their tourist FMM? Yes.  Have people been able to get another 180-day FMM when doing border runs? Yes.  Have tourist been issued less time than requested when arriving at the airport on their FMM?  Yes.  Have some tourist at the airport gotten the amount of days they requested with no problems? Yes.

Sounds confusing right?  What I just said is full of contradictions wasn’t it.  So, which one is it?  Sounds like you’re blowing this out of proportion.  Well, the answer to all these questions are not black and white and I’m going to try to sift through all this confusion and hopefully this will leave you with some useful information that will help you to be better prepared when you come to México.
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.