Mexico visa requirements for Syrian citizens

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

983 MXN

This is the fee for the document of a visitor without permission to carry out paid activities (Federal Duties Law, Art. 8). If you arrive by air, the airline collects it and it is usually included in the ticket. If you enter by land, it is not charged when the stay is 7 days or less; if it is longer, you pay it when you leave the country.

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))

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.