🇲🇽 Mexico · Permanent Residency
Permanent residency and golden-visa paths: eligibility, required years, investment thresholds, and official checklists.
Mexico permanent residence is a separate immigration status for people who intend to stay indefinitely or qualify through family, pensioner, temporary-residence history or other legal grounds.
- SRE describes the permanent resident visa as for people seeking to remain in Mexico indefinitely.
- INM says temporary residents may request a change to permanent residence after four consecutive years in temporary-resident status.
- Some family and pensioner cases have separate evidence paths; verify the current SRE/INM process before applying.
Official authorities
- SRE — permanent resident visa
Official permanent resident visa service page.
- INM — change to permanent residence
Official INM guidance on changing from temporary to permanent residence.
Official-information aggregation, not legal advice. Always verify on the authority's own site.