Dawn Stoner created the website Live Well Mexico to help newcomers solve the everyday challenges of living in our country.
When I first heard about the regularization program from a U.S. expat living in Guadalajara, I thought it was a joke. Why would the Mexican government give a foreigner hanging out here on an expired tourist visa legal residency in only a few days, with no proof of financial resources?
When I began researching it, I realized that the program was legit. In essence, Regularization offers a “backdoor” to residency in Mexico for foreigners who can’t satisfy the economic requirements to enter through the front door or want to avoid the hassle of leaving Mexico to get it done.
This article takes an in-depth look at how the Regularization program works, and who is eligible to use it.
Why Does Regularization Exist?
Residency via Regularization was introduced by the Mexican government during the pandemic — in Spring 2021 to be exact. Around this time many foreigners intentionally (or unintentionally) overstayed their tourist visas and ended up becoming illegal residents of Mexico.
This new program was intended to provide amnesty to foreign residents lacking valid documentation, giving them a way to legally access the immigration system from within the country.
Regularization is also sometimes referred to by its Spanish acronym RNE (Registro Nacional de Extranjeros) and contains a number of advantages over the traditional path to residency taken by most foreigners.
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Source: Live Well Mexico
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