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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | March 2005 
Foreign Citizens Rush to Become Mexicans
 CR Staff - PVNN
| For more info on becoming a Mexican citizen go to www.sre.gob.mx/juridicos/ and click on the box "Nacionalidad y Naturalizacion."
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More and more foreigners are deciding to become naturalized Mexican citizens. In the 18 years from 1976 to 1994, 619 people took out Mexican citizenship. That figure jumped to 5,777 during the six-year presidency of Ernesto Zedillo and has risen to 11,844 during the first three years of the Vicente Fox administration, according to figures published last year by Spanish-language daily Mural.
Becoming a naturalized Mexican citizen is far easier than it was ten years ago. An initial application can be filled out on the Secretariat of Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) Web site, where a clear explanation of the process is provided as well as a copy of Mexico's Nationality Law (Ley de Nacionalidad).
Eligibility Foreigners can apply to become naturalized Mexican citizens by reason of residency, ancestry, nationality and marriage. You are eligible to apply:- If you have lived in Mexico continuously for five years.
- If your children are Mexican by birth and you have resided in this country for two years.
- If you are married to a Mexican citizen and have resided in this country for two years.
- If you are a citizen of a Latin American country or from the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and have resided in this country for two years.
- If you can prove to have given the nation distinguished service or work in a variety of fields, including culture, business, science and sport, and have resided in this country for two years.
- If you can prove direct lineal ancestry from a Mexican citizen and have resided in this country for two years.
Maintaining old citizenship Under Article 17 of Mexico's Nationality Law, all those becoming naturalized citizens must renounce their original nationality. They must swear subject themselves to the laws of Mexico and bear no allegiance to any other sovereign state.
In practice, however, citizens of nearly every country in the world (including the United States and Canada) will still continue to recognize their citizens as their own even if they have become naturalized Mexicans. (U.S. citizens, for instance, cannot take out Mexican citizenship to avoid their U.S. tax obligations.)
Additionally, under Article 19 of Mexico's Nationality Law, all those applying to become Mexican citizens must "prove they can speak Spanish, know the history of the country and be integrated into national culture."
For more information on becoming a Mexican citizen go to www.sre.gob.mx/juridicos/ and click on the box "Nacionalidad y Naturalizacion." |
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