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Instituto Nacional de Migración (Mexico)

Applies the rule

Mexico's migration institute. It runs the border filter and the entry form, decides residence applications inside the country, and publishes its own account of the requirements it applies.

The body that applies the rule and decides applications. It publishes what it requires, which is authoritative about its own practice but is not the text of the law.

www.inm.gob.mx

Cannot be cited for

It is the agency's account of instruments it applies, not the instruments. On the central question - how long a visitor is admitted for - it describes a discretion the Lineamientos do not grant, which is the divergence worth knowing rather than a source to follow. It is also unusable for two of the things readers most want: the list of visa-requiring nationalities and the entry-fee tables are published as images, so anything read 'in' them is a reading of a picture. Note that INM publishes under two origins, www.inm.gob.mx and www.gob.mx/inm, so a catalogue entry keyed to one will not match the other.

Re-check every

60 days

Publication rhythm

Irregular, article-style updates. The fee and visa-requirement pages are refreshed around the turn of the year.

Re-check triggers

the annual fee update in late December · any change to the entry form or the border procedure · an acuerdo imposing or lifting a visa for a nationality

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