One of the first questions that arise when traveling to Mexico is the following: Do I need a Mexican visa to enter the country? The answer will depend, first of all, on the country from which the person interested in crossing the borders comes from. Second, of the official documents and certificates you have.
In this article, from Extranjería México we help you to know if you need a Mexican visa to enter our country according to your particular situation.
What is a Mexican visa?
A visa is an authorization granted by a country to a foreign citizen to enter and temporarily stay in the country. Visas act as a norm between countries to legalize the entry or stay of people in a country where they do not have nationality or free transit.
In general, visas arise from bilateral agreements between countries and are attached to passports to indicate that the document has been examined and considered valid by the authorities of a country.
For its part, the Mexican visa is a document that is requested at the Mexican consulates to be able to enter the country in case the traveler requires it.
For what purposes are Mexican visas processed?
The Mexican visa known as “Visitor visa without permission to carry out paid activities” is processed for purposes of recreation, business or any unpaid activity in Mexico that does not exceed 180 days of permanence.
What countries require a visa to enter Mexico?
In alphabetical order, these are the countries whose citizens require a Mexican visa to travel to Mexico:
- Afghanistan
- Albanian
- Angola Algeria
- Old and bearded
- Armenia
- Saudi Arabia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladeshi
- Belarus
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Bosnia Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Brunei Darussalam
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Bhutan
- Cape Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Chinese People’s Republic
- Colombia
- Comoros
- congo
- North Korea
- Ivory Coast
- Cuba
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- United Arab Emirates
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Russian Federation
- fiji
- Philippine Islands
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guyanese
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Iran
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Kiribati
- Kuwait
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Lebanon
- Liberia
- Libya
- Macedonia
- Madagascar
- malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Morocco
- Mauricio
- Mauritania
- Myanmar
- moldova
- Mongolia
- Montenegrin
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- qatar
- Central African Republic
- Saharawi Arab Rep. Dem.
- Rwanda
- Solomon Islands
- Western Samoa
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- St. Lucia
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Serbian
- Seychelles Islands
- Sierra Leone
- Syria
- Somalia
- Sri Lanka
- South Africa
- Sudan
- Surinam
- Swaziland
- Thailand
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Tajikistan
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turkey
- Tuvaluan
- Ukraine
- Uganda
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
What documents exempt the traveler from requiring a Mexican visa?
If you have any of these documents, you do not need to apply for a visa to enter Mexico:
- Document proving permanent residence in Canada, the United States of America, Japan, the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, or any of the countries that make up the Schengen Area.
- Valid and current visa of the United States of America.
- APEC Business Traveler Card (ABTC) approved by Mexico.
- Certificate that accredits you as a member of the crew of the aircraft on which you board.
- Sea book, if you are a member of the crew of the vessel that arrives at a Mexican port on an international voyage. If the crew member arrives by air to enroll in a ship anchored in a national port, he must present, in addition to the sea book, a document that proves his enrollment, the data of the vessel and the Mexican port in which it is located.
We hope that this article has been useful to know which countries require a Mexican visa.
If you need to manage this document, you can start your procedures with Extranjería México.
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