"FM3" and airport immigration

[mstevens]

OK, here's a dumb one to which I can't seem to find a clear answer.

My wife has a No Inmigrante ("FM3") immigration status. When we land at CUN, can she use the domestic line at immigration, or does she go to the international line?

[absoluteAL]

Originally Posted by mstevens

OK, here's a dumb one to which I can't seem to find a clear answer.

My wife has a No Inmigrante ("FM3") immigration status. When we land at CUN, can she use the domestic line at immigration, or does she go to the international line?

She could try but probably best to use the international line as she has NON INMIGRANTE status. With my FM-2 INMIGRANTE......I have successfully used the domestic (Mexicano) line the last 4 times that I have returned home to Cancun (Playa). I think the difference would be the NON INMIGRANTE vs. INMIGRANTE status.

[mstevens]

Inmigrante ("FM2") and No Inmigrante ("FM3") are both temporary legal resident statuses, distinct from Inmigrado, though clearly they're different from each other.

No Inmigrante status makes her a legal resident for the duration of the status, requires her to have a CURP, etc. That's why I wonder about this.

INM's website is no help at all. They still list the FMT and not FMM, and say practically nothing about actual entry to and exit from the country.

Can anyone who holds an "FM3" No Inmigrante status and has traveled to Mexico recently comment about this?

[snappysammy]

Originally Posted by mstevens

Inmigrante ("FM2") and No Inmigrante ("FM3") are both temporary legal resident statuses, distinct from Inmigrado, though clearly they're different from each other.

No Inmigrante status makes her a legal resident for the duration of the status, requires her to have a CURP, etc. That's why I wonder about this.

INM's website is no help at all. They still list the FMT and not FMM, and say practically nothing about actual entry to and exit from the country.

Can anyone who holds an "FM3" No Inmigrante status and has traveled to Mexico recently comment about this?

sometimes they get snarky when you go to the mexican line with fm3
if there are short lines i just use the visitor line
long lines, i take the snark and save some time

[mstevens]

Originally Posted by snappysammy

sometimes they get snarky when you go to the mexican line with fm3
if there are short lines i just use the visitor line
long lines, i take the snark and save some time

Thanks. It makes sense to me to use the visitor line if it's reasonable but try the resident one if the visitor line is ridiculous.

[snappysammy]

so far i have never been sent back
i think if i were, i would just go to the front and look confused

[ninjacita]

Originally Posted by snappysammy

so far i have never been sent back
i think if i were, i would just go to the front and look confused

I have FM2 (inmigrante) status, travel frequently in the spring and fall for work, and have been refining this process for a while... The short line is labeled "Mexicanos" (not residents) and like snappysammy said, if the visitors line is short, I just go there. I have been sent back once for crashing the Mexicano line - he was having a bad day, so was I, kinda grumpy all around. What I do now, if the visitors line is long, is ask a lineup herder, very nicely, in Spanish, if they will allow me in the Mexicano line, and they have always ushered me in. If I arrive at the front and someone doesn't like it, I can say "he said I could". As I'm not yet a Mexican national (and there's a future decision to be made), I do technically belong in the visitor line.

And when I go to Canada, I'm in the visitor line there too....