Papirex
Feb 10, 2011, 6:59 PM
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Re: [gmlantz] fM3 Letter of Good Conduct from WA State Patrol
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The police report of “good conduct” is no longer required. Some of the few Mexican Consulates that are still issuing visas do still require them however. We used to live in Anchorage, Alaska ,there is a consular officer for the Mexican Consulate in Seattle there. Because of a lot of political infighting between the consular officer and some Mexican citizens in Anchorage, we thought it would be quicker and easier to get my FM2 visa in Seattle. We called them and they told us we didn't need to bring anything with us, they would issue my visa in two days after we got there. When we got there, they denied ever having spoken to us.
When they told me I needed a police report from the Washington State Police, I knew that since I had never been a resident of Washington, that I would need to contact The Alaska State Troopers, their headquarters office is in Anchorage where we used to live. The Troopers told me that to do a records search in my absence, I would need to send them an FBI approved set of my fingerprints.
It took about two weeks to get a report that simply said that there were no wants or warrants out for me. When I took that letter to the Mexican Consulate in Seattle, they told me it would take at least another month to issue my visa. I said to hell with it. We had planned to stay with my wife's brother in Seattle for only a week. We had already been there for a month, I wasn't going to disrupt his life for another month or more. I told my wife that I would enter Mexico on a tourist permit, and get my FM 3 in Mexico.
We stopped to visit an uncle in Phoenix. He was born in Mexico and is a naturalized American Citizen. I went to The Mexican Consulate in Phoenix, and told the caballero in charge of issuing visas about our experience at the Seattle Consulate.
I didn't expect that they would accommodate me, but I told him I was not an Arizona resident, but could I use my wife's uncles address to have a FM 3 visa issued to me? The man waved his hand in the air and said “That’s not important.” He sent me to a place to have photos taken, I returned and gave them to him that day. My visa was ready the next morning.
Based on my own experience, I will never advise anyone to waste their time by going to any Mexican Consulate. The Consuls are all political appointees, and most of them have no idea of what their duties are, their main interest is to draw a salary for being there. The Consulate in Phoenix that I ended up using was an exception.
If you plan to bring a foreign plated car here, you will definitely need a visa to get the required temporary car import permit. Only approved persons besides yourselves may drive the car., regardless of any permissions you, or your insurance company may have given. If you leave the car here in your absence, it is a good idea to lock the car in a secure place, do not leave any keys for it here, and it is also a good idea to disable the car so it may not be started in your absence.
The risk of it happening is small, but if an unauthorized person is caught driving your car, the car is subject to seizure, you cannot get it back.
Good luck, Rex
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved" - Victor Hugo
(This post was edited by Papirex on Feb 10, 2011, 7:05 PM)
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