No dedicated nomad visa. The figures below describe what the row records; there may be nothing to apply for right now. Always check the official page before acting.
The requirements
- Programme status
- No dedicated nomad visa
- Minimum monthly income
- $4,450 a month
- Required savings
- None
- Annual total
- $53,400
- Initial duration
- 1 year, renewable to 4
- Family allowed
- Yes
- Apply online
- No, in person or by post
~MXN 79,771/month net over 6 months, or ~USD 75,000 savings.
How this figure is set: A formula in law, so the amount moves when its base moves. The wording on the source is: ≈ MXN 79,771/month net over the last 6 months (2026 figure = 680 × daily UMA per Mexperience; the Lineamientos express it as days of minimum wage/UMA)
. Formula: monthly income ≥ 300 days of general minimum wage (applied by consulates via UMA; Mexperience 2026: 680 × UMA daily) for 6 months; alternative: investments/balance ≥ 5,000 days (Mexperience 2026: 11,460 × UMA ≈ MXN 1,344,373 ≈ USD 74,700) for 12 months.
Income confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: Lineamientos generales para la expedición de visas (SEGOB/SRE, DOF) — economic-solvency criteria; text could not be fetched (DOF/SRE sites blocked bot access), so exact article not cited. SRE page confirms 'solvencia económica' as one ground and 180 days–4 years validity.
Does this lead to permanent residence?
Direct pathway. PR after 4 years as a temporary resident (art. 54 V Ley de Migracion).
Ley de Migracion art. 54, fraccion V (ordenjuridico.gob.mx consolidated text, and the INM's own 'residente permanente' guidance): permanent residence is granted when four years have elapsed since obtaining temporary resident status. Temporary residence itself is capped at four years, so the two line up without a change of ground.
Pathway confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07
Where it is
Mexico City sits at 19.43° N, 99.13° W.
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Time zone
- UTC−6 Mexico City (America/Mexico_City)
- UTC−5 Cancun (America/Cancun)
- UTC−7 Mazatlan (America/Mazatlan)
- UTC−7 Tijuana (America/Tijuana)
Mexico spans 4 offsets. The table shows the capital's.
The country
- Capital
- Mexico City
- Currency
- MXN
Next door
2 of the 3 countries Mexico shares a land border with are covered here.
What it costs to live there
$813 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Mexico spends in an average month with housing included — not what a newcomer renting at market rates will spend, which is higher, and furthest above it in the cheapest countries.
- Mexico City
- $1,117 / month incl. rent
of which rent $611 - Guadalajara
- $892 / month incl. rent
of which rent $449
City figures are crowdsourced from livingcost.net, not official: one person's monthly spending plus the rent of a one-bedroom flat outside the centre. They are here because a national average cannot show the spread between a capital and the places people actually move to. Checked 2026-09-20.
Cost of living confidence: high · checked 2026-09-20World Bank national accounts, reference year 2025: households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (NE.CON.PRVT.CD, current US$) divided by population (SP.POP.TOTL) and by twelve. This is what one resident spends in an average month with housing included, since national accounts count the imputed rent of owner-occupiers. It is an average over the whole population, not a visitor's budget, so a newly arrived remote worker renting at market rates will spend more - see the city figures for what that looks like.
Languages
- Spanish official
- English common in cities
Shares of the population from Unicode CLDR: official, then anything spoken by a quarter of the country, an eighth, or a fiftieth. It answers "will I be understood", not "how good is their English".
How to apply
There is no live application for Mexico in this dataset. What the row records about residence: PR after 4 years as a temporary resident (art. 54 V Ley de Migracion).
Consulate only; thresholds vary by consulate; savings route alternative.
A starting point, not advice. Figures are converted to US dollars at open-market rates; official thresholds are set in local currency. Sources: official source ↗. Data checked . Compiled by Junaid Qadir.