Mexico visa requirements for Cuban citizens

Consulate of Mexico in Havana, with a compulsory appointment at citascuba.sre.gob.mx

A Cuban needs a visa to enter Mexico. For tourism or visits it is the visitor visa without permission to carry out paid activities, which allows stays of up to 180 days. In Cuba it is requested at the Consulate of Mexico in Havana, and the only way to get an appointment is the citascuba.sre.gob.mx platform, run by the central offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. You bring the completed application with a colour photo between 32 × 26 mm and 39 × 31 mm (facing forward, no glasses, white background, on photo paper), the original valid passport and documents proving one of the grounds the consulate accepts: ties to Cuba, financial means or an invitation from an organisation or institution, among others. The fee is 54 USD for receiving, reviewing and, where applicable, authorising the visa. Anyone holding a valid multiple-entry visa from the United States, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom or a Schengen country, or permanent residence in one of them, does not need the Mexican visa for tourism, business or transit. Holding the visa does not guarantee entry: the decision lies with the immigration authorities at the point of entry.

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Authorisation system

FMM (Multiple Immigration Form) / SAE (Electronic Authorisation System)

The FMM is the National Immigration Institute (INM) document that records a stay as a visitor without permission to carry out paid activities (tourism, business, transit), valid for up to 180 days. If you arrive by air you no longer fill it in: the officer stamps your passport and writes the departure date according to the days granted, and the digital FMM can then be downloaded from the INM portal. The SAE is an electronic authorisation only for nationals of Russia, Ukraine and Turkey travelling by air: it takes the place of a visa, is valid for 30 days from issue and covers a single trip. Those travellers need a visa to enter by land or sea.

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Fee

54 USD

Amount published by the consular post that handles this corridor; the country page may give another consulate's figure.

Required documents

• A passport or identity and travel document valid under current international law, to be presented at the INM immigration checkpoint (Migration Act, Art. 37(I)(a))
• A validly issued, in-force visa where one is required. It is not needed by nationals of countries with which Mexico has signed a visa waiver agreement, or which Mexico has exempted unilaterally (Art. 37(I)(b) and 37(III)(a))
• Providing whatever information and personal details the competent authorities ask for at the immigration checkpoint (Art. 37(II))
• If you already live in Mexico, a residence card or a stay authorisation as a regional visitor, border worker visitor or humanitarian visitor takes the place of a visa (Art. 37(I)(c))

How much money you need to show

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.

Health insurance

Not mandatory for this destination.

When travel insurance is mandatory → Travel insurance policies ↓

Transit rules

Mexico has no separate transit category: transit sits inside the "visitor without permission to carry out paid activities" stay condition, the same one that covers tourism and business trips. The document is the Forma Migratoria Múltiple (FMM), valid for a maximum of 180 calendar days and good for a single entry; its validity runs from the moment the immigration stamp is applied, not from when it was issued.