Mexico entry requirements, by passport

How much money you need to show

Applies to: Visa required

An average monthly balance of 79,770.80 Mexican pesos over the last three months (680 days of UMA)

This is the financial means test for the visitor visa without permission to work. A job or pension paying more than 25,808.20 pesos a month net (220 days of UMA) over the last three months, with a year in the job, also counts, as does showing ties to home: property in your name for two years plus a job or business of at least two years. Over-65s travelling as tourists do not have to show financial means. The UMA is the reference unit used in Mexican law and its value changes every February, so the peso amounts do too.

Source: Mexico's General Guidelines for issuing visas (Official Gazette, 25 July 2025), procedure 1, with INEGI's 2026 UMA value. Checked on 1 November 2026.

Vaccinations

• No mandatory vaccines for general entry. A yellow fever certificate is required from travellers over 1 year of age arriving from (or having transited more than 12 hours through the airport of) a country with risk of transmission.

Customs limits

Cash

Cash, cheques, payment orders and other collectable documents worth more than the equivalent of 10,000 USD in total must be declared on entry and on exit.

Alcohol

Up to 3 litres of alcoholic drinks and 6 litres of wine, for those over 18.

Tobacco

A maximum of 20 packs of cigarettes, 25 cigars or 200 g of tobacco, for those over 18.

Overstay penalties

Mexico does not apply a fixed daily fine. If your document expires or you carry out unauthorised activities, the route is to apply for regularisation before the National Migration Institute: at the interview the migration authority holds, the amount of the fine is set case by case, weighing the factors in Article 73 of the Federal Law of Administrative Procedure and Article 146 of the Migration Law. The regularisation authorisation, where granted, is valid for 180 days for the visitor condition.

Grounds for refusal

• Not meeting the entry requirements in paragraphs I and II of Article 37 of the Migration Law.
• Your record in Mexico or abroad compromising national security or public safety.
• Not meeting the requirements set by the Migration Law, its Regulation and other applicable provisions.
• The migration authority detecting a migration alert, inconsistencies in your information, or doubts about the authenticity or truthfulness of the documents you present: you are then sent to secondary inspection, and the authority retains the document where there are grounds to presume it is forged.

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