Requirements for Residente Temporal visas for USA married couple

RVGRINGO wrote:If only one qualifies, the other can come as a tourist. When the firs has the visa card, the other one can apply to INM for equal status, under vincula familiar, as I understand it.

Visas Through Family / Spouse / Employer

Obtaining a visa under family for a married couple (not common-law), normally each must show the qualifying amounts of income, investments etc. If not possible, one option is for one person of the married couple to qualify. If husband qualifies and wife does not, she enters as a tourist and when husband has his visa she may start her visa process in Mexico. Spouse does not need financials as she is being sponsored by the other spouse. However, if name on wife's and husband's passports do not exactly match as per their names on the marriage certificate one needs a notarized letter from their Embassy in Mexico City confirming the person named on the passport is the same person named on the marriage license. Example, Mary Elizabeth Smith is not the same as Mary E. Smith to INM. The marriage license will also need to be legalized or apostilled and translated by a certified translator in Mexico. If wife can qualify and husband enters as a tourist it is usually easier as the husband's name on his passport more often matches his name on marriage license / certificate.

When the sponsor is a Permanent Resident the other family member/s may apply as a Temporary Resident. The person who becomes a Temporary Resident applies for one year. Then renews for one more year. After two years that person may become a Permaent Resident. There is the need to apostille or legalize marriage certificate and to have the apostille and license translated by a certified translator in Mexico. Same process applies for a child who is being sponsored by a parent with a Temporary or Permanent Resident visa.