Coming in August: Simplified electronic tourist visas

Starting successful August, Mexico volition motorboat an physics visa for overseas tourists that volition streamline the exertion process by eliminating the request for in-person visits to consular offices and by allowing applicants to implicit each requirements online. 

Citizens of exempt countries oregon with a valid passport from the United States, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom and the Schengen area, bash not request a pre-authorized visa for a tourism sojourn and are truthful not impacted by the caller e-visa.

🇲🇽 ¡Atención viajeros! México lanza su nueva visa electrónica 100% integer desde el 9 de agosto de 2025. Solo para ingreso aéreo y por 180 días. ✈️ Conoce requisitos y países elegibles 👇 https://t.co/6KF0k0PqKh

— Diario Financiero (@DFinancierodo) July 29, 2025

The e-visa process volition alteration the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) to make integer files with biometric and physics data, arsenic good arsenic integer certificates for each traveler.

The e-visa is not valid for question by onshore oregon sea. It is intended for foreigners who necessitate a visa to participate Mexico and lone applies to foreigners entering via aerial for tourism, taste oregon household purposes. It does not let immoderate enactment activities and is valid for a maximum of 180 days.

For visitors from astir parts of Asia and Africa, the e-visa eliminates the request for an interrogation oregon a carnal stamp successful the traveler’s passport. Once approved, the visa tin beryllium downloaded online.

In a connection published successful the Official Journal of the Federation (DOF) the National Migration Institute (INM) besides sought to “simplify, unify and marque transparent” respective procedures related to the issuance of migration documents: including obtaining a determination visitant card, regularization for humanitarian reasons, and notifications of marital status, name, nationality, and spot of work.

Moreover, it reduced the maximum processing clip for notifications of sanction oregon nationality changes to 3 days, and for issuing migration documents to nary aboriginal than 10 days.

The caller e-visa volition outgo 575 pesos (US $32), payable online. Infants nether 2 years aged are exempt from the payment. 

In contrast, the US is hiking its visa prices

While Mexico is moving to marque tourism visits much convenient, the terms of astir non-immigrant visas to participate the United States is acceptable to much than treble successful 2026, arsenic portion of  U.S. President Donald Trump’s migration policies. These visas see tourist, pupil and enactment visas.

Planning to travel, study, oregon enactment successful the U.S.?
You mightiness soon person to wage a caller $250 visa integrity interest — and no, it doesn’t regenerate your existent visa costs. From tourists to tech workers, this interest applies to each nonimmigrant visa applicants nether Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill… pic.twitter.com/nuWYzjvHss

— CNBC-TV18 (@CNBCTV18News) July 22, 2025

“No-petition visas,” which see tourer and pupil permits, volition summation from US $160 to $410 adjacent year. Meanwhile, petition-based categories similar those of impermanent workers oregon trainees, volition summation from $190 to $440 successful 2026. 

In a statement criticizing the interest hikes, Geoff Freeman, president of the U.S. Travel Association (USTA), said: “Raising fees connected lawful planetary visitors amounts to a self-imposed tariff connected 1 of our nation’s largest exports: planetary question spending.”

With reports from El País and EFE