possible to live in mexico w/o visa? (for rent, loan)

[kryophan]

is it possible to cross the border and live in mexico for many years without a visa?

Escape the American rat race?

Then come back here in 10 years when I am eligible for social security?

No visa or anything? Just cross the border without a visa and disappear into the Mexico city metropolis, with my rudimentary but serviceable spanish?

Then come back in 10 years at age 62?

[Steve Bagu]

Answer is YES!!!!!

Have been in Baja south of Rosarito (Own property/house) for 13 yrs.

I use this as my Vacation home with my primary residence address being my sons home in Calif.

Still have my drivers licence and car plates in Calif.

I do cross the border 2-3 times a month for medical (VA) and to buy some groceries or pick up my mail at the PO.

Can be done with NO problems as there are many Americans already doing that via the Calif plates in the AM going to work during the week.

If you have sufficient funds to stay...why not?...just DO NOT go into the interior without a VISA/Passport.

One day was at the VA clinic with a friend and we were talking about being here in Baja while a fellow overheard us talking and said that he was not eligible for SS yet and was working in construction with not enough money to live on. He wondered about the feasability of renting a place in TJ and crossing the border to work. There are some rooms For Rent at low rates (based on Mexican economy) and NOT US standards

Make sure you have a valid Passport before coming across...needed to return.

There are many Americans living here based upon the names in the local phone book.

You can have a Mexican Cell phone that will call the states if need be. Loaned mine to a friend who called his mother in Michigan on Mothers day (present from me). They will ask for proof of local address...copy of Passport to verify your being here in Mexico (immigration problems etc)(no big deal).

Steve

[violent cello]

If this were a Mexican person asking "possible to live in usa w/o visa?", this thread would have about 64,000 replies.

[poster]

Originally Posted by kryophan

is it possible to cross the border and live in mexico for many years without a visa?

No visa or anything? Just cross the border without a visa and disappear into the Mexico city metropolis, with my rudimentary but serviceable spanish?

Yes it is possible but why would you want to? Getting a visa is easy! A basic tourist visa is for 180 days and you can return and get a new one. A visa for residence is a bit more trouble - you have to prove some basic income - $1000 or so a month - that's a guess. That also has be to renewed every few years.

There's no reason to skirt the laws when it is so easy to comply with them!

[Bixaorellana]

That 180 days is no longer automatic -- it hasn't been for some time. Sometimes people only get 30 days on their visas.

I'm not sure about the amount of income that must be shown, but I think @$1200 US monthly.

The documentation to stay in the country must be renewed every year, not "every few years". This will run a couple of hundred bucks.

Unless you're on the lam, I can't imagine you'd seriously think about coming to a foreign country to live without doing more research. Asking on a forum is not research.

Violent Cello ~~ ! ~~ great remark!

[sparksmex]

I know a few people that come in on a tourist visa and stay beyond expiration. Probably quite easy as long as you don't drive. Might have to look at little harder for a landlord that doesn't care about a visa.

I assume you have money to live for 10 years (won't find a job) so you could 'fake' an income by transfering money into an account .... and then could do it legally with an FM3 visa

[sarahkate_m]

Originally Posted by kryophan

is it possible to cross the border and live in mexico for many years without a visa?

Escape the American rat race?

Then come back here in 10 years when I am eligible for social security?

No visa or anything? Just cross the border without a visa and disappear into the Mexico city metropolis, with my rudimentary but serviceable spanish?

Then come back in 10 years at age 62?

If you stay in the US to continue contributing to your SS, you'll at least have a few more... pennies coming to you for retirement.

[Wicked Felina]

Originally Posted by violent cello

If this were a Mexican person asking "possible to live in usa w/o visa?", this thread would have about 64,000 replies.

...and not one of them would be intelligible.

[Bixaorellana]

Originally Posted by Wicked Felina

...and not one of them would be intelligible.

*SNORK!*
Yeah, they'd be the internet equivalent of stuff written real tiny on crumpled lined paper in green ink with lots of capital letters and underlining.

[violent cello]

Originally Posted by Wicked Felina

...and not one of them would be intelligible.