Traveling to Mexico with Electronic Authorization System from a land border
I am planning to travel to Mexico by crossing a land border from the United States. I am a Turkish citizen so I need to register to the Electronic Authorization System. I've been having problems with finding proper English sources.
First of all is this the form that I am supposed to fill? https://www.inm.gob.mx/sae/publico/en/solicitud.html
If so is it possible to use the authorization to cross a land border or do I have to be flying to get there as wikipedia seems to suggest?
Best Answer
The Instituto Nacional de Migracion [MX], as translated, explains that, if you enter Mexico by land through the northern border, it's done easily by obtaining the Multiple Migratory Form Electronics Terrestrial (FMME-T).
The FMME-T applies exclusively for you [to access] Mexico by land, by the states of Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.
The next page contains the Forma Migratoria Múltiple (FMM), the form you need to complete. Select EN for English, then By Land, for the terms, to which, at the bottom, you must agree before the form you need to complete will appear.
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Answer 2
After contacting the Mexican consulate I was told that as a US visa holder I do not need additional documents to get into Mexico.
Their exact response was
If you have a multiple entre visa to Canada or USA visa you don’t need visa to enter in Mexico
As advised, I went to the land border from US without any additional documents other than my passport and was allowed to pass through without any issue.
Though based on Michael Hampton's answer it is possible that I was just lucky. The consulate did not answer my additional questions about FMM and I was not stopped at the border so forgetting what Michael Hampton's answer stated, I just moved on. This did not cause any problems on re-entry to the United States
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