Student Visas to Mexico

Student Visas for Mexico

While tourist visas are the easy to get and largely hassle free, other visas are a bit more complicated. For starters, if you're planning on studying in Mexico, there is a visa especially for students. When I was a student a Technologico de Monterrey in Mazatlan, even the director at the school suggested just to get a tourist visas and forget about the rest, which we all promptly did. (Everyone was there having a great time, and by the end nearly all of us on expired visas.) I love Mexico.

For the record, there are a few hoops to jump through. I recommend entering on a tourist visa and then applying for your student visa (if ya really must) in Mexico. It seems like bureaucrats that live here are so much easier to deal with than Mexican workers abroad. I assume this is because Mexican officials residing in the US, for example, start to mimic their US counterparts and become rigid and uncompromising.

To obtain a student visa, you'll need an acceptance letter from a Mexican university; a heap of passport photographs (I think it is still 6 front and 6 profile); a letter of proof of financial solvency (which is for a student is about $350 USD per month); your ID and birth certificate or a passport ; maybe a certificate of good health ; and maybe they'll want you to register within 30 days at the National Registry of Foreign Citizens "Oficina del Registro Nacional de Extranjeros" Instituto Nacional de Migracion, on Av. Chapultepec No. 284 Esq. Glorieta Insurgentes, Colonia Roma,C.P. 06700. That's in Mexico D.F. How they want you to register there if you're in, say, Chiapas is beyond me, but hey, I don't write these rules.

Real Acapulco says: "Blah... just forget about it and get a tourist visa."

If you're in Acapulco and need to do the visa mambo, you go to:

Instituto Nacional de Migracion
Juan Sebastian Elcano #1
Fracc. Costa Azul
Located across the street from the Cici.

I'd seriously recommend just getting a tourist visa and extensions if need be. If you're you're the sort of person that can't sleep if you colored outside the lines, I'd highly recommend going to Guatemala every 6 months a re-entering. Tikal is awesome!

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