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Diario Oficial de la Federación

Issues the instrument

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.

An instrument published here takes legal effect on publication. This is where the law becomes the law.

dof.gob.mx

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.

Re-check every

30 days

Publication rhythm

Every business day, in morning and evening editions. Immigration acuerdos appear irregularly and without notice.

Re-check triggers

a visa is imposed on or lifted for a nationality · new or amended Lineamientos for the issue of visas · the UMA values, published in the first ten days of January · the November revenue decree amending the Ley Federal de Derechos

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