My 7 day tourist visa

The main one is in Polanco... I'll post it tomorrow.

No, #4's post had zero validity, and claiming that someone was given a 7-day visa because they were flagged in the system is just laughable and unhelpful. We can do better, no matter how passionately some people here clutch their pearls about immigration nitpicks for what is still one of the most relaxed countries in the world in that respect.

TT rocks, but expats who lounge around year round without a care and folks who haven't visited Mexico in many, many years are just not great sources for this kind of info and the forum has been a notoriously poor source of actual facts on the matter since forever.

I believe this is the INM office to visit in Polanco, will try to confirm soon:

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/''/''/@19.4367195,-99.2814157,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m8!4m7!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x85d2021b1a2365f7:0x5c3d60bf86488142!2m2!1d-99.2113752!2d19.4367329

Nor is any post that includes qualifiers such as 'I think, I guess' of any value. If you're the so-called Mexpert that you pretend to be, you'd know (or should know) that each immigration agent/office has free reign to apply or misapply immigration rules as suits their whim, regardless of what some sabe lo todo from New York might pretend to know.
Hey, I read you were in Queretaro recently, you should have PM'd me, I'd have treated you to one of those fancy foo-foo drinks you people are fond of.
BTW, I'm writing this from my luxury high-rise condo here in Queretaro just minutes from centro. A place it costs you about $1,000 to get to.
Enjoy the snow.

I would honestly suggest not posting under the influence... just sayin'.

To get a FMM card extended from 7 days to up to 173 days more can be done at any full service INM office in any city in any state of Mexico. CDMX has some in that área and Polanco is just one of them. $500.00 pesos.

Start here:

https://www.inm.gob.mx/tramites/publico/estancia.html

Select in 1st. dropdown box: Extender la estancia [Extend the stay]

Select in the 2nd. dropdown box: Expedición de Tarjeta de Visitante por Ampliación [Issuance of Visitor Card for extensión]

Fill out the data and print out the form to take to an INM office, between 9AM to 1PM Mon. thru Fri.

For decades there's been an INM office in the airport. I haven't needed to go there in many years but when I did it was adjacent to the concourse near Entrance 10 to Terminal 1. Check with an information desk or federal police officer you see ... or with your airline's terminal office/staff. This office is separate from the INM agents scatteres at kiosks in the international gates areas.

LW

For decades there's been an INM office in the airport. I haven't needed to go there in many years but when I did it was adjacent to the concourse near Entrance 10 to Terminal 1.

LW

As of last June they were still at that location. They can speak Spanish and English fluently, are well organized, and there wasn't any line when I was there (was helped immediately). There is an internet cafe in the airport as well, if need be.

Well done, #14. Finally accurate information instead of I guess/I think. Funny how some think that good advice is just to ignore the problem until you exit, and the INM agent will just happily wave you on. After all, if the agent upon entry screwed up, Lord knows what would happen when you exit. It's always best to follow the rules.

It's less funny considering that literally nobody said it... but the actual "rules" in Mexico say you need to resolve your administrative status before leaving. It's pretty much universally understood that any minor (and even major) overstays are extremely easy to handle on the way out. A year overstay? Pay your fine and leave. No public execution, no chorus of Thorn Tree regulars jeering you across the boarder. Just a receipt and go.

Anyone who loses their FMM card pays a simple, set fee. It's up to the tourist and this forum's mega drama queen approach has always been out of line with reality. While they may want this country to be Indonesia or something, it simply isn't. Deal.

That said, those with crime/drug issues etc. are best keeping their nose clean, because they tend to attract... problems. They also might want to avoid returning to the country, as a few regulars here have admirably done: better safe than sorry, right?

(and for those who are still unclear on the concept, 1) OP did not arrive in "the airport" and 2) 7 days is the standard free transit visa given to thousands of non-flagged people per day)