When you hold legal residency status in Mexico (Temporary or Permanent) you need to file notifications at the local immigration office when there’s a change in your personal circumstances.
Legal residency in Mexico carries certain rights and obligations. One of the obligations is that you must notify the local immigration office when you experience a change in certain personal circumstances.
Types of notifications
These are the events which legal residents must notify the INM about:
- Change of home address.
- Change of name.
- Change of nationality.
- Change of marital status. (Marriage, divorce, death of spouse or common-law partner.)
- Change of economic activity, e.g. change of employer, or changing from not working to employment, or opening to a business, etc.
Notifications types must be:
- filed separately for each applicant;
- filed in person, at an immigration office in Mexico; and
- made in separate filings (in the case where two or more notification types are being filed together, e.g. change of address and change of marital status);
- submitted within 90 calendar days of the change.
- Notifications cannot be filed at Mexican consulates abroad.
Filing of Notification Changes at the immigration office in Mexico
Our associates offer a tele-assistance facilitation service that enables you to attend the immigration office in Mexico yourself fully prepared with all the forms and other paperwork duly completed and ready to file your notification for change in any of the circumstances listed above.
Filing notifications requires the completion of a form or forms, writing a covering letter (in Spanish), and might also require additional supporting documents that provide evidence of your change, e.g. marriage certificates, etc. Supporting documents will need to be notarized/apostilled and translated into Spanish if they were not issued in Mexico.
Not all change notifications require supporting documentary evidence. Our associate will advise you according to your situation.
How the Tele-Assistance facilitation service works
The tele-assistance support service offered by our associates saves you time and helps avoid common mistakes made by applicants filing notifications of changes at an immigration office. You can use tele-assistance regardless of what location you plan to move to (or are currently situated) in Mexico.
The service facilitates your application at every stage of the exchange process:
- An initial consultation by phone/videocall/email/chat to understand your situation and the changes you want to file.
- Confirmation of the required procedures to file a change notification at your local immigration office.
- Review of your supporting documentation, where relevant, for accuracy and completeness.
- Our associate will co-ordinate your intended notification filing date and book an appointment for you at the immigration office in Mexico using the INM’s online appointment system.
- Correct completion of the forms and covering letter you will need to file your change of circumstances notification.
- Customized checklist of documents you’ll need to carry and present when you attend the immigration office in Mexico.
- Detailed instructions/guidance about where to go and what to do when you arrive at the immigration office to file for the exchange.
Get support through every stage of the application
The table below describes the support offered when you need to file change notifications at an immigration office in Mexico.
| Stage | Filing Notifications at an immigration office |
| Initial consultation | The service begins with a personal consultation. Our associate will consult with you to understand your situation, and describe the relevant application procedure to file a change notification. |
| Preparatory work and documents review | To prepare for your procedure, our associate will send you a customized checklist of the documents you need to gather for your filing, based on your individual situation.
Our associate also provides a review of your supporting documentation to cross check them for accuracy and completeness. |
| Forms and letters | You will file your change notification at an immigration office in Mexico.
The associate will correctly complete all the application forms and write the covering letters (in Spanish) that you will need to submit at the immigration office. |
| Scheduling | Our associate works with you to coordinate dates for your notification filing that are mutually convenient, and which meet the stipulated deadlines for the procedure.
Our associate will book an appointment for you at the Immigration Office in Mexico using the INM’s online appointment system and confirm the date/time that has been booked for you. Our associate will provide you with details of the address and opening hours of the immigration office you intend to file at in Mexico. |
| Preparing to file your application in Mexico | Our associate will brief and assist you according to your individual situation to help you fully prepare in advance of your intended filing dates.
Our associate will email the files of the forms and letter for you to print out, sign, and take with you to the immigration office in Mexico. They’ll also send you a customized checklist of required accompanying documents you need to carry with you when you file your application. |
| Filing the application in Mexico | Our associate will give you detailed instructions and guidance about filing your application at the immigration office.
They’ll email you a document with detailed guidance about what to do at the immigration office in Mexico when you arrive to file the change notification at your intended location. Depending on the location, you will either attend the office in person to ask for an appointment and return on that date to file, or you’ll need to line up and wait for a service token to be attended that day. When your turn is called, you hand over the docket of papers our associate prepared and wait for the immigration official to review and process the application. When it’s approved, you’ll be handed some official paperwork to confirm the changes you notified. The procedure should be completed on the same day you attend—there is usually no need to return another day when you file change notifications. |
| Ongoing contact and assistance | Our associate will provide you with a contact number/email in case you have questions or concerns at any time, or need to troubleshoot any issues as you work your own way through the procedures and file your application. |
| Leaving the immigration office | When you have completed filing your procedure, you can advise our associate about the outcome. They may ask you to send them a copy of your paperwork for review and ensure everything is in good order. |
This is not a line-hopping service
Our associate assists and guides you through the procedures in good time, but cannot obtain preferential treatment for any applicant, and they cannot guarantee appointment date availability or ‘fast-track’ appointments or processing time scales at the immigration office.
Notification of Changes Tele-Assistance Fees
Our associate’s notification of changes package offers facilitation that is transparent and affordable, with fixed-fee pricing and no hidden charges. All consulting and assistance fees exclude the government fees applicants must pay to apply for residency in Mexico.
| Filing notification of changes | Fees per filing, per applicant |
Change notifications
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First filing procedure: US$129 Each additional filing: +US$65 |
Questions before you request the service?
If you have a question or need guidance about how the immigration assistance service works before you make a service request, please contact us.
Make a service request for assistance with the filing change notifications
To hire our associate to assist you with the facilitation to file your change notification, please complete the request form below.
What happens next?
- After you complete the form, Mexperience will send you an email that confirms your request and introduces you to the associate who will assist you.
- The immigration assistance associate will respond to you directly and request payment for their service. When you’ve paid, they’ll schedule-in your initial consultation and the service will begin.
