All people who are going for one reason or another to visit Mexico - a country located at the junction of the two Americas - are interested in the question of how to get a visa. You can enter Mexico for the purpose of tourism, business trip, transit once without this document, but only for thirty days and only with an electronic permit. By the way, it is issued completely free of charge. Do you need a visa to Mexico for those who plan to stay in the country longer than a month? Certainly yes. We will talk about how to obtain a permit or a consular visa, and what documents will be required for this, in the article.
Rules for the issuance and use of electronic permits
The document is issued to Russian citizens in the presence of a passport, which after the end of the trip must be valid for at least another six months. You can use absolutely any airline to fly to Mexico, but be sure to first check if your chosen air carrier participates in the SRA scheme. It should be noted that electronicpermission only applies if entering the country by air.
Do people who decide to travel by land or sea need a visa to Mexico? Of course. It should be obtained from the embassy. You will also have to contact the Mexican embassy if the permit was denied for some reason. In this case, you will need a visa to Mexico. The deadlines for issuing a document can be found there, as a rule, the process takes no more than seven working days.
Obtaining electronic authorization
On the website of the Mexican Embassy in Moscow, you must fill out an online questionnaire yourself. In it you need to indicate your personal data, including nationality, citizenship, date of birth, religion, number and date of issue of the passport. As well as the date of entry and the planned period of stay in the country, the purpose of the trip. As a rule, a positive response comes within five minutes.
Please note that the received electronic permit should not contain any errors, inaccuracies, because this is fraught with problems upon arrival in Mexico - you may even be deported from the country. Now there is a practice when people with very common surnames, such as Ivanov, Petrov, and so on, are denied electronic permission. If you have suffered such a failure, there is nothing to be done - you will have to find out what kind of visa you need for Mexico and apply for it in the prescribed manner through the Embassy.
Rules for entering the country
If there are no problems, and the electronicpermission has been obtained, you can (attention!) fly to Mexico. But this does not guarantee that you will be allowed to enter the country. At home, do not forget to print the permit - you will need to present it at the check-in desk on the day of departure. And upon arrival in Mexico, when passing through border control, the migration service officer will check the electronic agreement and your valid passport. If all the details are correct, you will be issued an entry permit.
For children under eighteen
Traveling minor children (without parents or with one parent) to enter and leave Mexico require additional documents: original consent to leave the child and birth certificates, notarized translations of these documents into Spanish. In case of failure to present the above papers, entry/exit will be denied.
Migration card
Before passing control (on arrival in Mexico), you need to fill out a migration card and a customs declaration (one declaration is filled out per family). At the control point, one part of the card will be taken from you, and you will have to keep the second part until the end of the trip - it will be required when leaving the country. Loss of a migration card is fraught with a fine. Usually, cards are filled out on the plane to speed up the process of passing through border control. Flight attendants give them to passengers, and also assist in filling out. But this is not always the case, so if during the flight you did not fill outmigration card, do not forget to take it at the counter at the airport. This document should be written in Latin block letters in black or blue ink. It is necessary to fill out a card for each entrant, that is, for a child too.
Who doesn't need a visa to Mexico?
Citizens of Russia who have a valid US visa in all categories or are permanent residents of the Schengen countries, as well as Japan, the USA, Canada, do not need a visa to Mexico. These categories of citizens also do not need to receive electronic permission.
Consular visa
This authorization document is multiple and is issued by the consular department of the Mexican Embassy in Moscow for a period of six months (one hundred and eighty days) to ten years. The type of visa you need for Mexico depends on the purpose of your trip. If you are going to visit the country as a tourist, you need a tourist visa, you are traveling for work - working, visiting or on business - guest or business. The cost of each type of document is different, we will talk about it later.
First stage
So, first you need to register on the Mexican Embassy website, because the permit request form is electronic. A visa to Mexico is issued within five to ten business days. After registration, a password will be sent to the specified e-mail address, providing access to the questionnaire. Please note that it only takes ten minutes to complete it, so prepare all the required data in advance, including phone number, addressand the name of the hotel (or other place) where you will be staying. The application form for a visa to Mexico is filled in Latin letters (this is a prerequisite). After all the data has been entered, click the "Submit" button, then print out the form.
A letter will be sent to your e-mail after sending the request indicating the date from which you can apply to the consulate for affixing a visa to your passport. Keep in mind that the date of the appeal is indicated according to the time of Mexico (the difference with Moscow is eight hours), so add another day to it. In addition, it is recommended to call the consulate after filling out the questionnaire and clarify whether it is exactly in the system.
Second stage
Next, you need to directly contact the consulate and submit the necessary package of documents and fingerprints, as well as pay the consular fee. It should be noted that a visa to Mexico for six months and ten years is issued differently.
Documents for obtaining a visa for six months
1. Original valid passport and copy of its first page.
2. Two 3x4 photos that meet the following requirements:
- should be made no earlier than six months before the request;
- the image should take up about seventy percent of the picture, be in color on a white background;
- photo paper - matte;
- frames, ovals, corners in the photo should not be;
- sunglasses, hats are not allowed to be photographed, exceptsituations where it is necessary for religious reasons.
3. People who are not citizens of the Russian Federation, but applying for a visa in Russia, are required to provide the original and a copy of the document that confirms their legal stay in the country.
4. Documents that confirm your ability to pay:
- bank statement (original and copy) for the last six months (in the absence of a certificate of employment, it is desirable that the amount be at least 2400 dollars, which is equal to the minimum wage in Mexico City for five hundred days);
- certificate of wages (original and copy) for the last six months (preferably a monthly salary of $715 or more, equivalent to the minimum wage in Mexico City for one hundred and fifty days);
- for students - certificate of scholarship, allowance or salary, certificate from the place of study (original), certificate from the place of work of the person who sponsors the trip, and his application;
- for schoolchildren - a certificate from the place of work of the person who sponsors the trip, and his application, a certificate from the school;
- for non-working pensioners - a pension certificate (copy), a certificate from the place of work of the person who sponsors the trip, and his application;
- documents on the presence of registered immovable and movable property (if any);
- documents that prove business ownership or business partnership (if any).
Documents forobtaining a visa for ten years
The list of documents is the same, but it is desirable that in the salary certificate for the last six months, the monthly amount should be from $ 1,400, which is equal to the minimum wage in Mexico City for three hundred days. It is also required to make copies of the pages of the passport containing the stamps of the migration service and valid visas. If we are talking about athletes, scientists, artists, journalists, then they need to provide papers confirming achievements, international or national recognition. People who are related to Mexican citizens should submit documents confirming it (birth certificate, marriage certificate).
If you are invited to Mexico by a company with which you work, you must also submit an invitation letter that includes the name, registration number, address of the company and information about the work that you will do in the country.
Fingerprints and consular fees
After reviewing the package of documents, the consular officer scans all applicants (regardless of their age) fingerprints. Then you can pay the consular fee. Despite the fact that it is set in US dollars, payments are made in rubles at the established rate. A tourist visa to Mexico will cost you $36, a visitor or business visa will cost you $134, and a work visa will cost you $195.
