Mexico’s daily minimum wage rose 12% to 278.80 pesos ($13.75) as of January 1, but foreign nationals seeking residency face marginally lower financial thresholds than in 2024 due to the peso’s weakening against the dollar. The amounts required as expressed in US dollars appear to be slightly lower than they were in 2024, according to…
Yucatán is facing a new immigration reality with the arrival of Cuban rafters and the potential mass deportation of Yucatecan migrants when Donald Trump takes office as U.S. President. Miguel Ángel Martínez Contreras, president of Poder Migrante Mexicano (Mexican Migrant Power), says in Diario de Yucatán that the state is unprepared for this challenge, which…
After over two years of halting applications for foreigners to naturalize, Mexico’s Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores is once again taking applications.
Mexican immigration agents can no longer conduct stop-and-search operations on buses and highways after the Supreme Court ruled that such checks are racist, discriminatory, and unconstitutional. While that may be a relief to tourists riding an ADO bus without a passport, the landmark ruling stems from a case involving migrant workers from Mexico’s poorest region….
A new group of would-be migrants is attempting to cross the border by any means necessary — Russians.
Approximately 100 Haitian migrants have set up camp outside the offices of Mexico’s immigration authority in Chetumal.
Immigration in Mexico is more than complex than Aztecs marrying bearded Conquistadors.
A woman who gained national attention after being forced to leave the United States nearly three years ago will reunite with her family in time for Mother’s Day. Alejandra Juarez, who left for Mérida in 2018 while facing deportation, has received permission to return to her home in central Florida under humanitarian parole. Humanitarian parole…
Mérida on Monday received the sculpture known as “Greetingman” as a gesture of friendship from the Republic of South Korea. The statue of a bowing man was created by Korean artist Yoo Young-Ho, and is six meters tall and painted blue. It is to be errected on the avenida República de Corea, in Mérida’s north. …
Are you thinking of moving to Yucatán, or any other part of Mexico, in the foreseeable future? If so, you’ll probably already know that there’s so much to enjoy here, including the richness of the Spanish language, a varied landscape and culture, plus the delicious food from chilaquiles to enchiladas. In particular, the state of…
After a 20% drop in the second quarter of this year compared to 2019 — due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic — money sent by Yucatecan migrants in the United States rose sharply in the third quarter of 2020. From January to September, remittances totaled US$178.1 million, an increase of 8.3% compared to…
Alex and Alejandra Grecu were supposed to be enjoying their new life in Cancun. Instead, the Canadian couple has spent months stranded in an Airbnb after they were prevented from driving across the U.S. border. The couple, married for four years, bought a house on the Yucatan Peninsula and sold their home in Ontario earlier…
Could the Brexit mess across the Atlantic bring more British expats to Mexico? It’s possible, writes Emigrate, which advises British retirees on living abroad. “Following in the footsteps of many thousands of U.S. expats, British retirees may find they’ve made the right decision by moving to Mexico,” a recent article states. Mexico has been the…
Rafael Chimal Hau still remembers his four sons and daughters, whom he has not seen for 25 years. In his mind, he still sees them at his house in Peto, playing, running, helping him in the field and laughing. Although their absence left a void in the home and in his heart, he always knew that…
The Mexican government reported 297 people — 285 men and 12 women — were forced to return to Yucatan in the first half of 2019 as the U.S. cracks down on immigrants. That is nearly the grand total for all 2018, when 384 were forced to return to Yucatan. May was the busiest month for…
Merida, Yucatan — Dozens of protesters gathered on the sidewalk across from the U.S. Consulate with signs to protest conditions in immigrant detention facilities — or concentration camps, as they called them. The demonstration was one 700 “Lights for Liberty” events organized across five continents. The local demonstration, attracting many American residents in Yucatan, included shouts of…
“This industry maintains the tricycles, the raft operators, the taxis, buses, everyone lives off of this. What happens if it’s gone? Forget it. Everyone would be poor.”
Merida, Yucatan — The city is preparing for Central American migrants blocked from entering the United States. The municipal director of social development, José Luis Martínez Semerena, told Punto Medio that the city is ready for them. “We are prepared, the mayor has already informed us of the issue and all the directions are pending so…
Shifting politics in both Canada and the U.S. bring more migrants to the Great White North.
Put them all together, and the flow of migrants from the United States to Mexico is probably larger than the flow of Mexicans to the United States, writes the Post.
Only prayer is what an Ohio woman says keeps her going after being separated from her husband, a Mexican national. “My faith is the only thing that kept me moving, because I do believe that God has a plan for all of us, and we don’t always know what it is, or why,” said Elizabeth…
Yucatan’s population of non-Yucatecans will top 70,000 people by 2020.
A U.S. television show sent a correspondent to Merida to talk to a group of American women who settled there because their husbands were deported.
Despite harsh immigration policies, remittances that Yucatecan migrants send back home are growing. This year the total flowing from the United States is expected to reach almost US$200 million, or close to 4 billion pesos. The general director of the Institute for the Development of the Mayan Culture (Indemaya) of Yucatan, Eric Villanueva Mukul, told El Financiero that remittances…
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That’s all for now