Ensuring Digital Signature Legality for Travel Industry in Mexico

How to eSign a document: digital signature legality for Travel Industry in Mexico

if you've traveled to Mexico recently chances are you did not receive a physical fmm form that's because almost all international airports in Mexico have practically eliminated the use of the form instead they've been placing a stamp inside your passport and writing a physical number for your granted amount of days no more carrying around that dreaded piece of paper with the fear of losing it and potentially getting locked up although you won't physically be handed in fmm form one is still generated for you electronically and accessing it may especially come in handy for those of you who want to finish the residency process in Mexico and in this video I'm going to show you exactly how to access that so let's get my computer things you will need for this is one access to your email because you'll be verifying your email and also to your passport whether a physical copy and or a digital copy download it to your computer which I'll show you you'll start off by going to the website on the screen as well as in the description portion of the video and once you go there you'll encounter this pop-up you can disregard it unless you're Colombian if you're Colombian there's a few things that you'll need to know or use with this website but if you're like the majority of us from other nationalities all you need is access to your passport and it has to have a minimum validity of 15 days it also tells you the format if you're going to upload a picture of it what format you can use jpeg jpg PNG or PDF I like PDF but who asked so I usually just exit out of this and what you'll do first is you will create an account you can create this account prior to your arrival in Mexico if you desire or you can create it after you entered either is fine so you start off by clicking create account and just to let you know I'll be using Google Chrome for this so once you click create account this page will pop up and you will type in the names particularly as they appear on your passport because that will be your verifying document so if you have a first and a middle name on your passport you type that in I'll type mine in next you'll type in your last name next you'll type in your date of birth in the format of four digits for the year two digits for the month and two digits for the day but as you'll see a calendar will pop up next you will select your gender next you'll select your nationality and if you're from the United States of course you type in estado nidense next you will enter your phone number starting with your country code next you type in your email here you will then confirm your email next you type in a password and you will confirm your password just to make sure you got it right and next is the capture code and then once you have all this information correct you click create an account and then I will ask you are you sure that you want to continue with the registration and then it will give you a message telling you to verify your email via the link that it sent you so we'll go to my email this is what the email will look like and then you just click on this link here that they sent you make sure that it's from I M though after you get the message that tells you your email has been confirmed you now go to the same page again to log in Click enter again this message will pop up feel free to exit out of it now you'll be logged into the portal you'll see your name here in the top left hand corner and what you want to do is you want to upload a picture of your passport you click here for registrar documentos and then it'll give you an option to capture the document which is your passport some people I've heard have been able to upload their temporary resident card or their permanent resident card but I haven't personally tried so I don't know I've uploaded my passport though and that's what I'll show you so you click capture document here and it will tell you that the website wants to use your camera you can allow it or you can block it depending on what you want to do I'll show you what it looks like if I allow it okay this will come in hand if you want to take a picture of your passport with your camera on your computer or whatever device you use so in that instance you would just pull up your passport and place it on the screen and your camera will take a photo of it but I personally think it's a little awkward so what I'll do is I'll exit out of here and then I will go on my computer and I will block access once I've done that then I will go back to capture document and I will instead of capturing the photo I will download an image from my computer once you click on the photo you want to upload you can zoom out to see how much of the photo you want to use and then you can click save the photo you will see it pop up in this box here with all of your information and next you want to validate the document so make sure that picture is acceptable so once you click that if the document isn't accepted a red rectangular box will pop up here telling you that it isn't accepted so to take another photo of it so next I will scroll all the way down it'll automatically enter all your details in based on your passport that you scanned but what you have to do is verify that the information on it is correct so have your passport handy if you can I have mine here so I'm going to open it up and I'm going to make sure all the information on it is correct this one is not Auto filled because it's just asking Who You Are it gives you four different options are you a friend of this person who's a passport you uploaded are you a family member of this person are you a legal representative or are you the person itself so I'm going to click that that's my account next make sure your name is correct if you have two names on your passport make sure they're both spelled correctly as well as your last name make sure your date of birth is correct in the format of four digits for the year two digits for the month and two digits for the day next is Pais de nacimiento which is your country of birth next is your sex it should automatically be popped in we'll head for woman ombre for men next is your nationality on your passport which should automatically be filled in make sure that's correct so type of document is a passport the country that was issued that issued the passport it'll automatically fill it in make sure it's correct America for me because so what kind of document is it this one is just an ordinary passport next is your passport number it's important that you verify this is accurate because you'll be confirming it here make sure the computer didn't glitch so I'm going to type it directly what I see from my passport after you've confirmed these two numbers match and that they are both indeed correct you can go on to the next one which is your date that your passport was issued and the format again four digits for the year two digits for the month and then two digits for the day make sure that's correct once you do confirm it here next make sure the date of expiration is also correct same format as before and then confirm it here next once all of your information that you entered is correct you verified everything is correct and up to date and accurate you will then type in the capture code once you type in the capture code and get it correct which you might not on your first try then you click registrar this message is important it'll pop up asking you are you sure you want to continue are you sure all the information is correct because once you continue you will not be able to edit the information so make sure your information is correct and if you desire to continue and all your information is indeed correct you click ok and you'll see it is registered once you click ok to that message then this message will pop up asking if you desire to continue the process of registering documents I just hit OK even if you don't register documents and they ask you that because it doesn't have to only be you on your account you can also add family members whether that be a spouse children friends obviously if you're a legal representative you can add anyone you want to this account and also access to fmm if they allow you to so then you'll see here I am now added so now scroll down and you'll see your name in the upper left hand corner you'll have the option to always register documents to add more people if you desire you'll see a drop down menu of everyone whose names is on your list it's only me for now so I just have mine and then it'll give you the information of the passport or the document that you uploaded here but now what you all been waiting for generating your fmm and to do that you'll click here on this page right here and if you don't see this all you have to do is click this home button right here and once you click that home button here all you have to do is go to here where it says this is the same screen that you'll see once you log in so I'll click that you'll see here a drop down menu just as before and it'll give you all the passports or documents that you've uploaded you can click the one you're looking for to access their fmm I'll click mine and then you'll click initial services and that same screen that we were just on will pop up so I'll scroll down and then what I'll do is I'll click hinted fmmd so generate my digital fmm then the screen will pop up I'll scroll down and here you will see your entries into the country going forward it will tell you if you did take a flight your flight number it will tell you the date you came in as well as the hour that you came in so make sure that's correct and then you just click this check mark right here and then this message will pop up telling you that it's been generated and you can now download it so you can exit out of that pop-up you'll click number two here fmmd once you click fmmd here number two you can go all the way over here to descargar fmmd and it looks like a maybe a clipboard with a arrow pointing down to download it so you'll then click download and you'll see here at the bottom your fmm form has been downloaded and you can just click on it this is what the fmm form will look like it'll be two pages you'll see both Pages here and then you can just print that as you will and bring it to whatever appointment that you need piece of advice for those of you coming into Mexico to finish the residency process if you're accessing your fmm for that purpose make sure that your fmm says Kanye if it does not say Kanye or your granted days exceeds 30 then you absolutely need to get that corrected make sure you let them know that you're completing your residency process hope that was helpful see you in the next video