Starting Application Process for Temp. Residency

My wife and l were awarded temporary and permanent residencies in the spring. We went to the Mexican consulate in Houston, Texas with all our apostilled documents.

We had to make several trips, but we were always treated graciously and in the end we were successful. No one said anything to us about FBI files.

I wish you all the luck.

@ChineduOpara

My husband and I just received our residency cards in September. He is temporary, so we can bring a car and I am permanent. The process was very easy.

We made appointments at the local consulate and were approved for our VISAs. You then have 6 months to go to Mexico and exchange that for your residency card. We used a facilitator in Mexico to prepare all the paperwork. They made the appointment at Immigration, met us with the paperwork and we received our cards the same day. I am not aware of any FBI report, unless the facilitator took care of that and we didn't know.

@ChineduOpara
[...]I am not aware of any FBI report, unless the facilitator took care of that and we didn't know. - @olsoncheryl

If you needed an FBI report, you would have known because you'd have to get fingerprinted 😊

OK thanks for the information... I hope to hear from more people, but so far I am optimistic.

Ive been working on mine in Houston and needed to go back for one and could not get an appoint for the second half of November and all of December. Still haven't been successful at another appointment. I was told that new laws release in January and with the state of things right now, I'm curious as to how they might have changed.......

It's not a hard process, but things seem stalled.

The news for 2026 is the exponential increase in income requirements. It's much more now than

It was last year. Maybe this won't affect you if you're already in the system, but you need to find out.