Immigration Lawyer for Visa Renewal

Hello all - and apologies if this info is somewhere - I couldn't find it on a cursory search of the site.

I'm looking for a good immigration lawyer to renew my temporary resident visa (and make sure my USA-plated car is still good to go). I'm coming up on my one-year renewal.

I realize I could probably get this done without a lawyer, but I work a lot and would rather pay to save myself some time and aggravation - not to mention help navigate the bureaucracy in the time of covid.

I'm in Saladita, but anywhere in the area would be fine.

Thanks so much!

Greg

I could be mistaken, but I believe Migración wants to see you in person, not a lawyer, for any renewal of your visa. I've never even heard of a Mexican immigration lawyer for renewal of a visa. I'm sure there are lawyers who will happily take your money, but I just don't believe there is any "bureaucracy" to be navigated that merits using one. Granted it's been over two decades since I renewed anything, so it's possible something drastic has changed since then.

Here's where you should be able to find all the info you need for renewing any visa:
Gobierno Federal - Instituto Nacional de Migración - Trámites Migratorios

In Playa Del Carmen and Cancun there are lawyers and lay people who specialize in set up and renewal of residency visas. I believe that is what he is requesting. One year in Cancun we made 10 trips to INM to get the visa renewed. There INM specializes in making it difficult for extranjeros to get or renew visas. After that experience we used a lawyer. We only went to the INM office to submit our photos and get fingerprinted. Everything else was handled by a woman from the lawyers' office. The going rate was 5,000 Pesos per person. The lawyer explained that half that goes to the head of INM in Cancun. And yes, I believed him it is a very corrupt system in Quintana Roo.

I never paid any bribe at the local office. But because they were always so helpful to me back when I was still a Visitante No Migrado I would take them a fruit basket for the holidays.

Yes, any bureaucrat can invent a difficult process and work in cahoots with third parties to justify all kinds of payments. That’s why I linked to the website where everything is explained. Knowledge is power. Under the current federal government no one should be paying bribes anymore.