How can I get Mexican citizenship

 How can I get Mexican citizenship

You qualify to request a letter of naturalization after you have completed 4 years as a resident. So you can request a letter of naturalization from the SRE for residency or once you are married you will qualify for nationality based on your marriage. You only need to complete 2 years if it is based on matrimony. The Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) where you deliver your application along with your Mexican marriage certificate, identification of your spouse proving Mexican nationality. They will send your application to INAMI - Mexican immigration for an opinion. If you have had no problems with immigration and have always had legal status, they will receive a favorable opinion in about 1 month. You can then take the Mexican history test and demonstrate during your interview your ability to speak Spanish. They will allow you to pay the fees and send your documentation to Mexico City. If you want to speed this process by a year or two, do this at the SRE in Mexico City. It is worth the trip. After you have presented all the documentation, everything with copies, foreign documents with an Apostille and translation by a certified translator - you will be notified by email. If you are accepted you then go to the SRE, where you will be asked to “renounce” your previous nationality. This will have no effect on your nationality but in Mexico you will no longer ask for assistance from your country’s consulate. They will give you your “Carta de Naturalización” which you can use to apply for a passport and Voter Credential (INE). 

Enter as a tourist. Change status to FM3 (immigrant with work permission) at the closest offices of the Instituto Nacional de Migración of the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores. Pay the small fee. It doesn't much matter where you're from. Mexico has no per country quotas (though they are a western nation and as such they do keep an eye on people with interpol records, from countries on terrorist watch lists, etc).

Get a job, be a good guy/gal. Wait five years as a legal resident, complying with the requirements as you go (mostly by not getting in criminal legal trouble and staying employed most of the time). By the time you are able to apply for citizenship, your Spanish should be pretty decent.

After the 5 years (3 if you come from the Hispanosphere - namely Latin America or Spain), apply for citizenship. Go through the motions. Be sworn in.

You're done. Congratulations, paisano!

There are 2 routes to acquiring Mexican nationality. As in many countries, marrying a Mexican national will fast track you to citizenship. If you have one parent born in Mexico, you already have Mexican nationality and need only to verify it at a Mexican Consulate with the birth certificate of your parent. If you go to live in Mexico, you must first acquire a temporary resident Visa outside the country at a Mexican consulate. There are different ways to acquire this, such as a Job Offer from a Mexican company, as an investor, as a retired person with income from a source outside of Mexico or by marrying a Mexican national. Once you have your temporary resident visa and complete 4 years you can obtain permanent residency status which you do not have to renew. After 5 years you can request from the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) a Letter of Naturalization (Carta de Naturalización). The SRE will request an opinion from immigration (SEGOB) and if you have completed the 5 years without a problem you will be approved. Once you are approved you can pay the fees (around $300.00 USD) and take the exam for citizenship which consists of 5 questions about Mexican history. You must be able to speak Spanish. After a period of time the SRE will notify you that you have either been granted a Letter of Naturalization or you have to complete another requirement. You go to SRE and pick up your letter of Naturalization and renounce your citizenship (in Mexico, if you are US citizen this does not affect your US citizenship unless you go to a US consulate and return your passport and renounce before a US official). Your Letter of Naturalization is your Mexican birth certificate, you can immediately apply for a passport and Voter credential (INE). If you immigrate by marrying a Mexican national, you only have to wait 2 years to request naturalization. If you are of Mexican descent, you only have to wait 2 years to acquire nationality. All of this will go much more smoothly if you have a Mexican attorney with experience in immigration and naturalization. I am a Mexican attorney originally from the US and I have dual nationality, US and Mexican. I have lived in Mexico for 32 years.

My beautiful paisana Stephanie Bojorquez as always, is right.

Article 30 of the Mexican Constitution (that turns 100 years in a few days) says in section II and III that:

A) Son mexicanos por nacimiento:

II. Los que nazcan en el extranjero, hijos de padres mexicanos nacidos en territorio nacional, de padre mexicano nacido en territorio nacional, o de madre mexicana nacida en territorio nacional;

III. Los que nazcan en el extranjero, hijos de padres mexicanos por naturalización, de padre mexicano por naturalización, o de madre mexicana por naturalización,

Translated it says

A) Are Mexican by birth :

II. Those who are born in a foreign country, son of parents born in Mexican territory, a father born in Mexican territory, or of a mother born in Mexican territory.

III. Those who are born in a foreign country, sons of Mexican parents by naturalization, of a Mexican father by naturalization, or a Mexican mother by naturalization.

In other words: FELICIDADES, YOU ARE MEXICAN BY BIRTH…Now, just make it ‘official’, and all the details can be found on the links provided by Stephanie.

1. Find the nearest Mexican consulate.
2. Make an appointment by phone or online - Citas SRE.
3. Gather the required documents:
1. Parent’s marriage certificate (or divorce)
2. Proof of parent’s Mexican citizenship.
1. Birth certificate
2. Certificate of naturalization
3. Valid Mexican passport
4. Valid National Voter ID card (IFE or INE)
5. *Note: if one of the parents is not Mexican they must present the long version of their birth certificate along with a valid ID photo ID card.
3. Original U.S. birth certificate (long version) + apostille + translation - What is an Apostille?
1. Long version: includes place, date and time of birth. Also full name and date of birth of the parents, name of the hospital and name of the doctor who delivered the baby.
4. Identification cards of everyone who is involved in the process (passport, driver’s licence, state IDs and for minors school IDs or passport. All IDs must have a photo).
4. Take two witnesses over the age of 18 to the appointment.

• There will be a fee but it varies by consulate. Also the fee for the apostille and translation will vary depending on where you do the process.

Example of Fresno consulate: Servicios de doble nacionalidad

Example of Chicago consulate: DOBLE NACIONALIDAD

Are you talking about dual citizenship?

If so contact Mexican immigration. But be careful there are many traps.

Make it clear you do not wish to renounce your US citizenship but you wish to establish a dual citizenship.

it is very easy to lose your US citizenship in this process if you aren't very very careful.

If you wish just to become a citizen of Mexico contact their immigration and they will let you know about the process.

The process is pretty standardized throughout the world. The same basic things learn some history learn their language pretty much so you can can communicate and learn the laws of the country you wish to immigrate to.

It helps to have a skill set that they have a need for employment.

Also some countries require a pretty big bank account.