August 15 2018 we began our journey at the Consulate General of Mexico in Vancouver British Columbia to apply for the Residente Temporal Cards. We were required to submit our passports, have an interview with the consular official, meeting the financial requirements and submitting all the voluminous financial paperwork. Our receipt was a temporary visa from the consulate, return of our documents to submit and complete the process in Mexico within one month.
Arriving in Ajijic Jalisco Mexico we applied within the 30 days to Chapala INM “Instituto National de Migracion” submitting our paperwork and our financial documents . We received our Residente Temporal Cards two weeks later on September 9, 2018 valid for four years .
During the four years of temporal residency we travelled by car in 2018, 2019 to and from Canada & Mexico driving 4589.2 km across the USA to Mexico, volunteer work in Ajijic (Lakeside Friends of Animals, Needlepushers & Comforting the Border) travelling adventures to different areas surrounding Ajijic ( Mazamitla, Manzanillo, Colima, Comala, Tequila, Tapalapa, Chacala, Guayabitos, Barra de Navidad & Melaque ) in 2018/2019. Experiencing the outbreak of Covid in the Spring of 2020 and the long quarantine and our delayed return home due to the travel restrictions we were able return to Canada June 2021.
September 1 2022 our Residente Temporal expires.
We discussed leaving Canada early to fly to Bucerias Nayarit Mexico and apply before September 1 st and the benefits of having Resedente Permanente. Some of the benefits with having the card was especially the ease of travel and the other option was the opportunity to live full time in Mexico. Also having already met the financial requirements for residente there was thankfully less paperwork to submit this time.
We applied on August 17 submitted our soon to be expired cards, paperwork, photos, fingerprints and electronic signatures for our residency at the INM office in Nayarit.
Tuesday September 6 at 1:25 pm we signed our signatures to the final INM papers and we were handed our Resedente Permanente Cards and opening up the future for us with continuing wonderful adventures in .Mexico.
Congratulations! I know you guys are very happy there and this is a big step.