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todd2433
Joined 2011
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7 years ago

Temporal Residencia Visa

7 years ago

My wife and I recently received our Temporary Residence Visa from the Mexican Consulate in Miami.Here are the facts and requirement we encountered at this consulate.
We applied for an appointment on line ,requesting a specific date about six weeks ahead of time. The request was quickly granted and we were sent a list of required documents.We had also been given requirements by many other web sites. Especially about income and financial stability.The application form was in Spanish and was difficult to understand. We got an English version from Yucatan Expat Services but it was also a bit confusing. We muddled through it.
We arrived at the consulate at 9:30 for our 10 AM appointment. We were ushered into a room with about 50 folks sitting and waiting for "who knows what" but we were told where to sit.All announcements were being made in Spanish.
At 10:15 we were called to a counter and our interview started. We were speaking with a VERY pleasant Mexican genlelman. He started matching our passport info with the completed application. We had a number of errors on the form. Not To Worry. The interviewer had white out and we corrected the errors.
So far so good.
We each had the supposedly required 3 photos. Not needed. Only one was required and this had to be glued to the application.
Not To Worry. Our "guy" had a glue stick.
We had been sweating my wife's income requirement as her Social Security payments did not match the published level[we were applying individually as we are not legally married]
However, her bank statements for the past 12 months,as required, had a large balance due to salary deposits. We also had the title to property in the Yucatan which is in her name [$200K USD]This was not looked at because of the large balances.NO Problrmo!
I,on the other hand had a problem. I had not been concerned as my SS payments plus VA disabiliy are $2K per month. This didn't matter to the interviewer.
I had the required 12 months of bank [checking] statements but because I prepares for the interview ahead of time I did not have the August statement.Also, I had been making large payment to a credit card account so my balances were low. This posed a problem.I was informed the I must have the last months statement and an explanation for the low balances.
We were told to return to the consulate at 4 PM to continue the process.
We left and headed to a Miami branch of my bank to get the missing statement. We got it.
I also had a credit card statement which showed received payments matching the banks statements.
Back at 4 PM. There were 11 of us waiting. I presented the missing documents and was told,"OK you're good to go"! Hurrah!!
We were soon told that the Visas were not yet available as the server used for communicating with Mexico City was "down".
At 5:30 our passports were returned to us with a shiny new visa laminated to a back page.By the way, our instruction indicated that a copy of our passports was required. True,but a copy of the BACK page was also needed. Again, no problemo,the interviewer copied it for us.
ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL

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