Basic rules:

  1. Check that your passport is valid for at least the next six months.
  2. Get a tourist visa to Mexico for you and every member of your family. To do this, residents of the CIS need to fill out a short questionnaire on the embassy website of the country in which they will receive a visa. If you have an England, USA, or Schengen visa, you do not need to obtain a separate visa for Mexico. On a tourist visa, you are not allowed to work in Mexico. But remote work for an American company is still legal.
  3. You have to take all the necessary documents with you to pass the border control successfully:
  1. Please note that the passport control officer will determine the expiration date of your visa. The maximum stay for citizens of Russia and the CIS is 180 days. In this case, in fact, the officer usually sets the number of days at his discretion, based on the dates of the hotel reservation and the date of the return ticket.
  2. Migration form (‘Forma Migratoria Múltiple’ or FMM).
  1. For everyone who cannot fly back home to Russia and Ukraine, the Mexican migration service extends a tourist visa for 180 days. To do this, upon arrival, you need to contact the migration service and extend your visa for six months.

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