Temporary Residence on Your Own Means
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Belize on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
81 exceptions recorded across 33 countries · none match Belize to Mexico · Residency on passive income
Temporary residence is the route for someone who can show money rather than a job, and the numbers were rewritten in July 2025. The old guidelines asked for monthly income of 300 days of the minimum wage; the guidelines that replaced them on 9 August 2025 ask for 680 days of the UMA, and for savings they ask 11,460 days of the UMA rather than 5,000 days of the minimum wage. That is about 2.3 times the multiple in each case, in a different unit. The card is granted for one to four years, cannot be renewed beyond four years in total, and the visa must be obtained at a consulate before travelling - this is not a status you can switch into after arriving as a visitor.
At a glance
- Savings test
- An average monthly balance of 11,460 days of UMA over the last 12 monthsas of 2025-08-09
The Lineamientos write the multiple in words and in UMA, never in pesos. The digits here are ours; the peso equivalent is ours too and is marked as such.
- Income test
- Net monthly income above 680 days of UMA for the last 6 monthsas of 2025-08-09
- Savings test in pesos
- MXN 1,344,372.60CALC (calculated by us, not published)as of 2026-02-01
Our arithmetic: the multiple from the Lineamientos times the daily UMA of MXN 117.31 published by INEGI in the Diario Oficial on 9 January 2026 and in force from 1 February 2026. It changes every February.
- Income test in pesos
- MXN 79,770.80 a monthCALC (calculated by us, not published)as of 2026-02-01
Our arithmetic: the multiple from the Lineamientos times the daily UMA of MXN 117.31 published by INEGI in the Diario Oficial on 9 January 2026 and in force from 1 February 2026. It changes every February.
- What the test was before 9 August 2025
- 5,000 days of minimum wage in savings, or 300 days of minimum wage a month
From the 2014 guidelines, abrogated by the second transitional article of the 2025 guidelines. Shown because most published guidance still quotes it. Note the unit: days of minimum wage, not days of UMA.
- Card validity
- One, two, three or four years, at the applicant's request
- Maximum time as a temporary resident
- 4 years in total, renewals included
- Visa validity
- 180 days, one entry
- Consulate's decision time
- 10 working days
- Deadline to collect the card after arrival
- 30 calendar days
- Card fee, one year
- MXN 11,140.74as of 2025-11-07
- Card fee, four years
- MXN 25,057.82as of 2025-11-07
Figures marked CALC are our arithmetic, not a figure in any instrument. Where the law states a threshold as a multiple of something else, the amount shown is that multiple applied - and it moves when the underlying figure does.
Requirements
- A passport valid under international law and in force
- Proof of lawful stay in the country where you apply, if you are not a national of it
- Either an average monthly bank or investment balance of 11,460 days of the UMA over the last twelve months, or net monthly income from employment or a pension above 680 days of the UMA over the last six months
- A consular interview - the visa is granted or refused on its result
- Entry within 180 days of the visa being issued, and a single entry only
- An application to the Institute for the residence card within 30 calendar days of arriving
In detail
The numbers were restated in a different unit in 2025
Until 9 August 2025 the guidelines asked a self-funded applicant for monthly income of 300 days of the minimum wage, or savings of 5,000 days. The guidelines that replaced them ask for 680 days of the UMA a month and 11,460 days in savings - about 2.3 times the multiple. The unit is the reason. Since the 2016 constitutional reform, a reference to the minimum wage as a unit of account has to be read as a reference to the UMA, so the 2014 text had quietly become a UMA threshold years before it was rewritten. Raising the multiple is how the ministries dealt with that. The two sets of guidelines are not denominated in the same unit, so the change in the multiple is not the same as the change in what an applicant must show. We have not sourced a minimum wage figure, so we do not state what the real movement was. What is certain is that every figure still in circulation from the old text is the wrong figure.
Four years is the ceiling, not the card
The card can be issued for one, two, three or four years at your own request, and renewed - but only up to four years counted from the day you first held the status. At the end of that you either qualify for permanent residence, which four years of temporary residence by itself does, or you leave. Choosing a one-year card to keep the fee down costs you nothing in total time; choosing four years up front costs more now and saves the renewal trips.
This route starts at a consulate
The visa is applied for in person at a Mexican consulate, with an interview, and it is valid for 180 days and one entry. Inside Mexico the Institute only takes visa applications in three cases - family unity, a job offer, and humanitarian reasons - so a visitor who decides after arriving that they would like to stay cannot convert on the strength of their own money. The 2026 amendment added a sentence worth knowing: the consular authority may not ask for requirements beyond those in the law, the regulation and the guidelines.
Country-level policy
No Mexican immigration threshold is written in pesos. They are all multiples of the Unidad de Medida y Actualización, a unit the statistics institute recalculates each January by the previous year's inflation and publishes in the official gazette, in force from 1 February. The unit exists because a 2016 constitutional reform forbade using the minimum wage as a unit of account and converted every such reference into the UMA - which is why the 2014 visa guidelines, written in days of minimum wage, were replaced in 2025 by guidelines written in days of UMA at about 2.3 times the multiple.
Mexican consular practice runs on a single administrative instrument, the General Guidelines for the issue of visas, issued jointly by the interior and foreign ministries. The version that stood from 2014 to 2025 is the source of almost every figure still in circulation, and it was repealed outright on 9 August 2025. New guidelines took its place, restating every money threshold in UMA, adding an electronic visa, and dropping the photograph and photocopy requirements. An amendment in May 2026 added an unpaid high-specialisation expert route, rewrote what a job offer must say, and told consulates in terms that they may not ask for more than the rules require.
A Mexican residence visa is not a residence permit. It gets you to the border once, within 180 days of issue, and the entry form you receive there is valid for thirty calendar days. In those thirty days you must apply to the Institute, at the office covering your address in Mexico, for the card that actually evidences your status. Miss it and the visa is spent: what remains is a regularisation procedure with its own fee. The same thirty-day rule is in the migration law, in the procedural guidelines and in the user information of every residence visa procedure.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Belize
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«Autoriza al extranjero para permanecer en el país por un tiempo no mayor a cuatro años, con la posibilidad de obtener un permiso para trabajar a cambio de una remuneración en el país, sujeto a una oferta de empleo con derecho a entrar y salir del territorio nacional cuantas veces lo desee»Our translation - not official
Authorises the foreigner to remain in the country for a period of not more than four years, with the possibility of obtaining a permit to work for remuneration in the country, subject to a job offer, with the right to enter and leave national territory as often as he wishes
Four years is the outer limit of the status itself, not of one card. The right to work is conditional on a job offer and is not included in the status.
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The Chamber of Deputies' law library, which maintains the texto vigente of every federal statute together with a reform history for each. It is where the Ley de Migración, the Ley de Nacionalidad, the Código Fiscal and the Ley Aduanera can be read as amended rather than reconstructed from the decrees that amended them.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: Nothing below statute level is here. The Lineamientos, acuerdos and administrative instruments are where almost all Mexican immigration practice actually changes, and none of them is published by this body - the Reglamento de la Ley de Migración it does carry has not been reformed since 2014 and is in places overtaken by instruments it cannot show you. It is also not an authority on when a reform took effect: the transitional articles of the amending decree live in the Diario Oficial, not here. And its standard pdf/ edition is not safe to extract: a reading of the Ley de Migración from it silently dropped 21 of 162 articles, including article 52, the one listing every migration status. Use the pdf_mov/ edition and check article numbering for gaps after any fetch.
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«mensual equivalente a once mil cuatrocientos sesenta días en UMA, durante los últimos doce meses»Our translation - not official
a monthly average equivalent to eleven thousand four hundred and sixty days of UMA, over the last twelve months
The savings test. These guidelines replaced the 2014 ones on 9 August 2025, fifteen days after publication.
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Mexico's official gazette. An instrument takes effect on publication here, and the visa guidelines, the acuerdos that amend them and the annual UMA values all appear here first and sometimes only here.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It publishes instruments as enacted and never consolidates them. The 2025 visa guidelines and the 2026 acuerdo amending them are two separate documents with no merged text anywhere, so what the rule says today has to be assembled by hand. An article number inside an amending acuerdo - ARTÍCULO ÚNICO, Transitorio Tercero - is an instruction to amend, not an article of the resulting instrument. Its HTML conversion also drops the space at many line breaks, so stored text contains run-together words and, in preambles, whole paragraphs without spaces; a quotation carrying such a join is reproducing the publisher exactly and must say so. Note that www.dof.gob.mx fails TLS validation while dof.gob.mx works.
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«mayores al equivalente de seiscientos ochenta días en UMA durante los últimos seis meses.»Our translation - not official
greater than the equivalent of six hundred and eighty days of UMA over the last six months.
The income test. Income must be free of charges ('libres de gravámenes'), which is why the figure is read as net.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Mexico's official gazette. An instrument takes effect on publication here, and the visa guidelines, the acuerdos that amend them and the annual UMA values all appear here first and sometimes only here.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It publishes instruments as enacted and never consolidates them. The 2025 visa guidelines and the 2026 acuerdo amending them are two separate documents with no merged text anywhere, so what the rule says today has to be assembled by hand. An article number inside an amending acuerdo - ARTÍCULO ÚNICO, Transitorio Tercero - is an instruction to amend, not an article of the resulting instrument. Its HTML conversion also drops the space at many line breaks, so stored text contains run-together words and, in preambles, whole paragraphs without spaces; a quotation carrying such a join is reproducing the publisher exactly and must say so. Note that www.dof.gob.mx fails TLS validation while dof.gob.mx works.
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«SEGUNDO.SeabroganlosLineamientosGeneralesparalaexpedicióndevisasqueemitenlassecretaríasdeGobernaciónydeRelacionesExteriores,publicadosenelDiarioOficialdelaFederaciónel10deoctubrede2014»Our translation - not official
SECOND. The General Guidelines for the issue of visas issued by the ministries of the Interior and of Foreign Affairs, published in the Official Gazette of the Federation on 10 October 2014, are repealed
This is the sentence that makes every figure in circulation from the 2014 guidelines wrong. The Diario Oficial's HTML edition drops the space at some line breaks, which is why words run together inside this quotation. It is quoted as the publisher renders it rather than tidied.
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Mexico's official gazette. An instrument takes effect on publication here, and the visa guidelines, the acuerdos that amend them and the annual UMA values all appear here first and sometimes only here.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It publishes instruments as enacted and never consolidates them. The 2025 visa guidelines and the 2026 acuerdo amending them are two separate documents with no merged text anywhere, so what the rule says today has to be assembled by hand. An article number inside an amending acuerdo - ARTÍCULO ÚNICO, Transitorio Tercero - is an instruction to amend, not an article of the resulting instrument. Its HTML conversion also drops the space at many line breaks, so stored text contains run-together words and, in preambles, whole paragraphs without spaces; a quotation carrying such a join is reproducing the publisher exactly and must say so. Note that www.dof.gob.mx fails TLS validation while dof.gob.mx works.
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«a cinco mil días de salario mínimo general vigente en el Distrito Federal»Our translation - not official
to five thousand days of the general minimum wage in force in the Federal District
The repealed text, kept because it is what most guidance still repeats. Note also what it is denominated in: days of the minimum wage, in a Federal District that stopped existing in 2016. The 2016 constitutional reform turns such references into UMA, which is why the 2025 guidelines had to raise the multiple sharply to keep the real value.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Mexico's official gazette. An instrument takes effect on publication here, and the visa guidelines, the acuerdos that amend them and the annual UMA values all appear here first and sometimes only here.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It publishes instruments as enacted and never consolidates them. The 2025 visa guidelines and the 2026 acuerdo amending them are two separate documents with no merged text anywhere, so what the rule says today has to be assembled by hand. An article number inside an amending acuerdo - ARTÍCULO ÚNICO, Transitorio Tercero - is an instruction to amend, not an article of the resulting instrument. Its HTML conversion also drops the space at many line breaks, so stored text contains run-together words and, in preambles, whole paragraphs without spaces; a quotation carrying such a join is reproducing the publisher exactly and must say so. Note that www.dof.gob.mx fails TLS validation while dof.gob.mx works.
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«La tarjeta de residente temporal tendrá una vigencia de uno, dos, tres o cuatro años de acuerdo ala petición del interesado.»Our translation - not official
The temporary resident card shall be valid for one, two, three or four years according to the applicant's request.
The Diario Oficial's HTML edition drops the space at some line breaks, which is why words run together inside this quotation. It is quoted as the publisher renders it rather than tidied.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Mexico's official gazette. An instrument takes effect on publication here, and the visa guidelines, the acuerdos that amend them and the annual UMA values all appear here first and sometimes only here.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It publishes instruments as enacted and never consolidates them. The 2025 visa guidelines and the 2026 acuerdo amending them are two separate documents with no merged text anywhere, so what the rule says today has to be assembled by hand. An article number inside an amending acuerdo - ARTÍCULO ÚNICO, Transitorio Tercero - is an instruction to amend, not an article of the resulting instrument. Its HTML conversion also drops the space at many line breaks, so stored text contains run-together words and, in preambles, whole paragraphs without spaces; a quotation carrying such a join is reproducing the publisher exactly and must say so. Note that www.dof.gob.mx fails TLS validation while dof.gob.mx works.
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«hasta completar cuatroaños contados a partir de que obtuvo la condición de estancia.»Our translation - not official
up to a total of four years counted from obtaining the migration status.
This is the hard stop. A four-year card and four one-year cards reach the same place: after four years you move to permanent residence or you leave. The Diario Oficial's HTML edition drops the space at some line breaks, which is why words run together inside this quotation. It is quoted as the publisher renders it rather than tidied.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
Mexico's official gazette. An instrument takes effect on publication here, and the visa guidelines, the acuerdos that amend them and the annual UMA values all appear here first and sometimes only here.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It publishes instruments as enacted and never consolidates them. The 2025 visa guidelines and the 2026 acuerdo amending them are two separate documents with no merged text anywhere, so what the rule says today has to be assembled by hand. An article number inside an amending acuerdo - ARTÍCULO ÚNICO, Transitorio Tercero - is an instruction to amend, not an article of the resulting instrument. Its HTML conversion also drops the space at many line breaks, so stored text contains run-together words and, in preambles, whole paragraphs without spaces; a quotation carrying such a join is reproducing the publisher exactly and must say so. Note that www.dof.gob.mx fails TLS validation while dof.gob.mx works.
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«deberá tramitar dentro de los siguientes 30 días naturales contados a partir de su ingreso al territorio nacional»Our translation - not official
must apply within the following 30 calendar days counted from entry into national territory
Missing this window does not just delay the card: the visa is spent, and what is left is a regularisation procedure with its own fee.
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Mexico's official gazette. An instrument takes effect on publication here, and the visa guidelines, the acuerdos that amend them and the annual UMA values all appear here first and sometimes only here.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It publishes instruments as enacted and never consolidates them. The 2025 visa guidelines and the 2026 acuerdo amending them are two separate documents with no merged text anywhere, so what the rule says today has to be assembled by hand. An article number inside an amending acuerdo - ARTÍCULO ÚNICO, Transitorio Tercero - is an instruction to amend, not an article of the resulting instrument. Its HTML conversion also drops the space at many line breaks, so stored text contains run-together words and, in preambles, whole paragraphs without spaces; a quotation carrying such a join is reproducing the publisher exactly and must say so. Note that www.dof.gob.mx fails TLS validation while dof.gob.mx works.
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«a). Hasta un año $11,140.74»Our translation - not official
a). Up to one year $11,140.74
Cited to the article of the Ley Federal de Derechos naming the amending decree, not to the decree's own numbering.
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The Chamber of Deputies' law library, which maintains the texto vigente of every federal statute together with a reform history for each. It is where the Ley de Migración, the Ley de Nacionalidad, the Código Fiscal and the Ley Aduanera can be read as amended rather than reconstructed from the decrees that amended them.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: Nothing below statute level is here. The Lineamientos, acuerdos and administrative instruments are where almost all Mexican immigration practice actually changes, and none of them is published by this body - the Reglamento de la Ley de Migración it does carry has not been reformed since 2014 and is in places overtaken by instruments it cannot show you. It is also not an authority on when a reform took effect: the transitional articles of the amending decree live in the Diario Oficial, not here. And its standard pdf/ edition is not safe to extract: a reading of the Ley de Migración from it silently dropped 21 of 162 articles, including article 52, the one listing every migration status. Use the pdf_mov/ edition and check article numbering for gaps after any fetch.
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«d). Cuatro años $25,057.82»Our translation - not official
d). Four years $25,057.82
About this source
The Chamber of Deputies' law library, which maintains the texto vigente of every federal statute together with a reform history for each. It is where the Ley de Migración, the Ley de Nacionalidad, the Código Fiscal and the Ley Aduanera can be read as amended rather than reconstructed from the decrees that amended them.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: Nothing below statute level is here. The Lineamientos, acuerdos and administrative instruments are where almost all Mexican immigration practice actually changes, and none of them is published by this body - the Reglamento de la Ley de Migración it does carry has not been reformed since 2014 and is in places overtaken by instruments it cannot show you. It is also not an authority on when a reform took effect: the transitional articles of the amending decree live in the Diario Oficial, not here. And its standard pdf/ edition is not safe to extract: a reading of the Ley de Migración from it silently dropped 21 of 162 articles, including article 52, the one listing every migration status. Use the pdf_mov/ edition and check article numbering for gaps after any fetch.
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«Plazo máximo para resolver el trámite: | 10 días hábiles. |
| Vigencia máxima de la visa: | 180 días. |
| Entradas permitidas: | Una.»Our translation - not official
Maximum time to decide the procedure: 10 working days. Maximum validity of the visa: 180 days. Entries permitted: One.
The header of the procedure, quoted as the Diario Oficial lays it out in a table. The same three rows appear with the same values on the permanent residence and student procedures.
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Mexico's official gazette. An instrument takes effect on publication here, and the visa guidelines, the acuerdos that amend them and the annual UMA values all appear here first and sometimes only here.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It publishes instruments as enacted and never consolidates them. The 2025 visa guidelines and the 2026 acuerdo amending them are two separate documents with no merged text anywhere, so what the rule says today has to be assembled by hand. An article number inside an amending acuerdo - ARTÍCULO ÚNICO, Transitorio Tercero - is an instruction to amend, not an article of the resulting instrument. Its HTML conversion also drops the space at many line breaks, so stored text contains run-together words and, in preambles, whole paragraphs without spaces; a quotation carrying such a join is reproducing the publisher exactly and must say so. Note that www.dof.gob.mx fails TLS validation while dof.gob.mx works.
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Practical notes
The thresholds are set in UMA, and the UMA changes every 1 February. A balance that cleared the test in January may not clear it in February, and the peso figures here are ours rather than any instrument's.
Two other ways of meeting the same test exist and are much less used: real estate in Mexico worth more than 91,710 days of UMA, and the investor test. Both are set out in the same procedure.
Consulates publish their own tables of these amounts converted to local currency. Those tables are a conversion of the figures here, not a separate rule, and we have not read any of them.
We found no published rule allowing a visitor to change to temporary residence from inside Mexico on means alone. The change-of-status list in the regulation turns on family ties, humanitarian grounds, study, or four years already held - not on money.
The 2014 figures are in days of the minimum wage and the 2025 figures in days of the UMA. Comparing the two as if they were the same unit overstates or understates the change, and we do not do it here.
- issuesLineamientos Generales para la expedición de visas que emiten las secretarías de Gobernación y de Relaciones Exteriores, DOF 25/07/2025
Diario Oficial de la Federación
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Mexico's official gazette. An instrument takes effect on publication here, and the visa guidelines, the acuerdos that amend them and the annual UMA values all appear here first and sometimes only here.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It publishes instruments as enacted and never consolidates them. The 2025 visa guidelines and the 2026 acuerdo amending them are two separate documents with no merged text anywhere, so what the rule says today has to be assembled by hand. An article number inside an amending acuerdo - ARTÍCULO ÚNICO, Transitorio Tercero - is an instruction to amend, not an article of the resulting instrument. Its HTML conversion also drops the space at many line breaks, so stored text contains run-together words and, in preambles, whole paragraphs without spaces; a quotation carrying such a join is reproducing the publisher exactly and must say so. Note that www.dof.gob.mx fails TLS validation while dof.gob.mx works.
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- issuesLineamientos Generales para la expedición de visas que emiten las secretarías de Gobernación y de Relaciones Exteriores, DOF 10/10/2014 (abrogados)
Diario Oficial de la Federación
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Mexico's official gazette. An instrument takes effect on publication here, and the visa guidelines, the acuerdos that amend them and the annual UMA values all appear here first and sometimes only here.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It publishes instruments as enacted and never consolidates them. The 2025 visa guidelines and the 2026 acuerdo amending them are two separate documents with no merged text anywhere, so what the rule says today has to be assembled by hand. An article number inside an amending acuerdo - ARTÍCULO ÚNICO, Transitorio Tercero - is an instruction to amend, not an article of the resulting instrument. Its HTML conversion also drops the space at many line breaks, so stored text contains run-together words and, in preambles, whole paragraphs without spaces; a quotation carrying such a join is reproducing the publisher exactly and must say so. Note that www.dof.gob.mx fails TLS validation while dof.gob.mx works.
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- consolidatesLey de Migración (texto vigente, última reforma DOF 15-01-2026)
Cámara de Diputados del H. Congreso de la Unión
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The Chamber of Deputies' law library, which maintains the texto vigente of every federal statute together with a reform history for each. It is where the Ley de Migración, the Ley de Nacionalidad, the Código Fiscal and the Ley Aduanera can be read as amended rather than reconstructed from the decrees that amended them.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: Nothing below statute level is here. The Lineamientos, acuerdos and administrative instruments are where almost all Mexican immigration practice actually changes, and none of them is published by this body - the Reglamento de la Ley de Migración it does carry has not been reformed since 2014 and is in places overtaken by instruments it cannot show you. It is also not an authority on when a reform took effect: the transitional articles of the amending decree live in the Diario Oficial, not here. And its standard pdf/ edition is not safe to extract: a reading of the Ley de Migración from it silently dropped 21 of 162 articles, including article 52, the one listing every migration status. Use the pdf_mov/ edition and check article numbering for gaps after any fetch.
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- issuesLineamientos para trámites y procedimientos migratorios, DOF 08/11/2012
Diario Oficial de la Federación
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Mexico's official gazette. An instrument takes effect on publication here, and the visa guidelines, the acuerdos that amend them and the annual UMA values all appear here first and sometimes only here.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It publishes instruments as enacted and never consolidates them. The 2025 visa guidelines and the 2026 acuerdo amending them are two separate documents with no merged text anywhere, so what the rule says today has to be assembled by hand. An article number inside an amending acuerdo - ARTÍCULO ÚNICO, Transitorio Tercero - is an instruction to amend, not an article of the resulting instrument. Its HTML conversion also drops the space at many line breaks, so stored text contains run-together words and, in preambles, whole paragraphs without spaces; a quotation carrying such a join is reproducing the publisher exactly and must say so. Note that www.dof.gob.mx fails TLS validation while dof.gob.mx works.
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- consolidatesLey Federal de Derechos (texto vigente)
Cámara de Diputados del H. Congreso de la Unión
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The Chamber of Deputies' law library, which maintains the texto vigente of every federal statute together with a reform history for each. It is where the Ley de Migración, the Ley de Nacionalidad, the Código Fiscal and the Ley Aduanera can be read as amended rather than reconstructed from the decrees that amended them.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: Nothing below statute level is here. The Lineamientos, acuerdos and administrative instruments are where almost all Mexican immigration practice actually changes, and none of them is published by this body - the Reglamento de la Ley de Migración it does carry has not been reformed since 2014 and is in places overtaken by instruments it cannot show you. It is also not an authority on when a reform took effect: the transitional articles of the amending decree live in the Diario Oficial, not here. And its standard pdf/ edition is not safe to extract: a reading of the Ley de Migración from it silently dropped 21 of 162 articles, including article 52, the one listing every migration status. Use the pdf_mov/ edition and check article numbering for gaps after any fetch.
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- issuesUnidad de Medida y Actualización - valores vigentes a partir del 1 de febrero de 2026, DOF 09/01/2026
Diario Oficial de la Federación
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Mexico's official gazette. An instrument takes effect on publication here, and the visa guidelines, the acuerdos that amend them and the annual UMA values all appear here first and sometimes only here.
Standing: Issues the instrument
Cannot be cited for: It publishes instruments as enacted and never consolidates them. The 2025 visa guidelines and the 2026 acuerdo amending them are two separate documents with no merged text anywhere, so what the rule says today has to be assembled by hand. An article number inside an amending acuerdo - ARTÍCULO ÚNICO, Transitorio Tercero - is an instruction to amend, not an article of the resulting instrument. Its HTML conversion also drops the space at many line breaks, so stored text contains run-together words and, in preambles, whole paragraphs without spaces; a quotation carrying such a join is reproducing the publisher exactly and must say so. Note that www.dof.gob.mx fails TLS validation while dof.gob.mx works.
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