MOVING TO MEXICO - How to Exchange Your Visa for a Resident Card? [THE CANJE PROCESS]

After receiving your visa to move to Mexico as a temporary or permanent resident, what's next in the Mexican immigration process? What is the Canje procedure? And how do you obtain your physical temporary or permanent resident card once you enter Mexico? In this video, we cover everything you need to know to exchange your visa in your passport into a physical resident card, including the important requirements to know to enter Mexico along with numerous helpful tips we learned throughout the process. For reference, we received our resident cards in July 2022, so the information presented in this video is current as of this date. If you are feeling anxious about this part of the process (which felt very much like a black box to us), click play and put your fears at ease!

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VIDEO CHAPTERS:

00:00 Intro
01:15 What is the Canje Process?
01:51 I Have My Visa - Now What?
02:25 On Arrival in Mexico
03:25 Scheduling an INM Appointment
04:27 Using an Immigration Attorney
05:31 Expectations for INM Appointment
06:45 INM Appointment & Our Experience
08:16 Picking Up Our Resident Cards
08:35 Recap & Our Residency Timeline
09:24 Outro

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