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Jan. 19th, 2025 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thelaughingmuseLaundry-load tally: an even dozen loads, with just one more to do (jeans and sweatpants). I'm going to put that off until mid-week because I need a break from that particular domestic chore. (Build up three months' worth of laundry, get most of it done in two days, and see how enthusiastic you are to finish one more load, even if that will mean a totally empty laundry hamper.)
I got my most needful grocery shopping done. I still want another loaf of bread, and I'd kind of like to splurge and get myself a pint of ice cream. I may go out this evening, or I may just...not. Tomorrow, my facilitator and I are going to Aduana to renew my TIP, since the TIP's validity is tied to my residency card. That'll take most of the morning. Once that's done, I'll have a break from Mexican bureaucracy until I go to import my car and get it a Mexican title and plates, which I'm currently planning to do in about 2 more years. It has to get done before I become a permanent resident, and that won't happen for another 3 years.
For anyone who may be interested, you don't have to live in Mexico to get or maintain temporary or permanent residency. (You need to maintain a residency - that is, have a Mexican address - but that's pretty easy to do.) You do need to meet income requirements when you initially get your residency, and will need to travel to Mexico to actually get your card and - for temporary residency only - when you renew it after your first year. Plan at least a week for that process - and unless you're fluent in Spanish, hire a facilitator. If you have special circumstances, you may want to bust out and hire a firm so that they'll be people with multiple specialties. If you intend to get Mexican citizenship, you will have had to live in Mexico for at least 18 consecutive months before you apply. The outfit I worked with did a good job and are a good price, but I was a single person who easily met the income requirements and had no major health or financial issues, so...if you feel like you need to shop around for a facilitator, definitely do that. 2025 seems to be a good year to apply for residency if you'd previously been an edge case, because the value of the peso relative to the dollar dropped so the amount needed to qualify is lower. If you earned at least USD$4100 a month for the last six months (2024/2025), you should be able to qualify financially for temporary residency. If folks want to learn more, I can post more; but there's a lot of info online, and things change a little bit every year, so definitely do your research.
I learned a word: jodido. It means "screwed." As in, "I'm stuck alone on the surface of Mars. I'm so screwed."
I got my most needful grocery shopping done. I still want another loaf of bread, and I'd kind of like to splurge and get myself a pint of ice cream. I may go out this evening, or I may just...not. Tomorrow, my facilitator and I are going to Aduana to renew my TIP, since the TIP's validity is tied to my residency card. That'll take most of the morning. Once that's done, I'll have a break from Mexican bureaucracy until I go to import my car and get it a Mexican title and plates, which I'm currently planning to do in about 2 more years. It has to get done before I become a permanent resident, and that won't happen for another 3 years.
For anyone who may be interested, you don't have to live in Mexico to get or maintain temporary or permanent residency. (You need to maintain a residency - that is, have a Mexican address - but that's pretty easy to do.) You do need to meet income requirements when you initially get your residency, and will need to travel to Mexico to actually get your card and - for temporary residency only - when you renew it after your first year. Plan at least a week for that process - and unless you're fluent in Spanish, hire a facilitator. If you have special circumstances, you may want to bust out and hire a firm so that they'll be people with multiple specialties. If you intend to get Mexican citizenship, you will have had to live in Mexico for at least 18 consecutive months before you apply. The outfit I worked with did a good job and are a good price, but I was a single person who easily met the income requirements and had no major health or financial issues, so...if you feel like you need to shop around for a facilitator, definitely do that. 2025 seems to be a good year to apply for residency if you'd previously been an edge case, because the value of the peso relative to the dollar dropped so the amount needed to qualify is lower. If you earned at least USD$4100 a month for the last six months (2024/2025), you should be able to qualify financially for temporary residency. If folks want to learn more, I can post more; but there's a lot of info online, and things change a little bit every year, so definitely do your research.
I learned a word: jodido. It means "screwed." As in, "I'm stuck alone on the surface of Mars. I'm so screwed."