What happens when all the extensions of your FM3 are exhausted?

When a foreigner holding an FM3 has obtained the maximum extensions of his immigration document; as established by the New Immigration Procedures Handbook, he is obligated to leave the country for the purpose of managing a new authorization, or he must petition for a migratory regularization process to obtain the same or another immigration status.

Before what the immigration authorities allowed, was that an alien who had exhausted his extensions could re-apply for a new FM3, a process which she was known as "New Permanence" and was authorized on the grounds that the authority could not compel the alien to apply for an FM2, so he was  authorized a new FM3 document.

Currently the standard criteria is that an FM3 document can be authorized for up to a period of 5 years and if this limit is to be exceeded it is considered that the alien no longer meets the conditions under which he was awarded his original document and does not have any other option rather than leave the country and restart the whole process again or to regularize his situation.

Needless to say that the vast majority of foreigners opt for regularization, just imagine the cost involved if for example a company's administrators, managers, and trust personnel were to return to their home countries to restart the immigration process again, the cost of travel, lost work days, in addition to the cost to do this with their families, coordinate all this with their children's schools and the company, it is clear that there is a need to legalize foreigners.

In fact, this "regularization process" is equivalent to what was once called "new permanence", but anyway, in our opinion it was only a change in nomenclature.

If you or your company require advice and / or representation to conduct these transactions with foreigners, we are at your disposition to help in the process of regularizing their FM3, in our offices located on Isaac Garza Poniente No. 1326, between Porfirio Diaz and Ignacio L. Vallarta streets, in the downtown área of the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. Telephones 8452-8343, 044811-2031390, consultation prior appointment or at our e-mail adresses: mayla.lozano@hotmail.com, mi.services@hotmail.com