Ustlach
Jun 15, 2010, 6:54 PM
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Re: [sioux4noff] FM 2 versus FM 3 for the unenlightened
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I actually watched them paste my new FM2 visa together right in front of me on the counter in the INM office. I watched them print it on an old large laser printer on regular, flimsy computer copy paper. It is possible it was a pre-printed sheet, but it looked plain and blank to me from a distance. She cut the visa part out and fold it, to create the front and back of the visa, then glued one of the new pictures I had to have taken on to it, using a glue stick. I had to sign it in a particular place and then the gal doing the work said she would get the jefa to sign it.
About 45 minutes later she came back with the visa signed and lamentated but not trimmed, which she did there at the counter with a pair of scissors.
The lamenated FM2 visa looks like it will be a heck of a lot sturdier than the old booklet was. It is bigger in dimension than a credit card, but thinner. As a matter of fact, it is the same size as my Medicare Card which came to me as paper, which I then had lamentated here in Mexico. The visa and the Medicare card both fit in one of the back slots in my wallet, but neither will fit in a credit card slot in my wallet.
When I dropped off my application papers for the renewal, I asked if 2801 pesos was all I needed to pay. And they said yes. I did not have to pay the 669 pesos some people are talking about. I did pay such an amount when I renewed my FM3 last time and never understood what that was. It was in addition to the amount I paid for the FM3 which was something like 1600 pesos. I can't remember the exact amount but it was definitely in the 600 peso neighborhood.
Maybe that 669 pesos payment for some sort of registry is a one time thing.
At the time I dropped off my paperwork for the FM2 renewal I was told my visa would be ready in two days. It took just at six weeks.
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