National Institute of Migration

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The National Institute of Migration (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM)) is a unit of the government of Mexico dependent on the Secretariat of the Interior that controls and supervises migration in the country.

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[edit] Offices

Since 1999, the INM approved the increase from 16 to 32 regional offices, one for every state of Mexico and the Federal District. It also has 45 migration stations concentrated on border states (land), Mexico City (air) and the Gulf of Mexico (sea). These stations are:

State City State City
Aguascalientes Aguascalientes Guerrero Acapulco
Baja California Mexicali Zihuatanejo
Tijuana Michoacán Morelia
Baja California Sur Los Cabos Oaxaca La Ventosa
Campeche Campeche Oaxaca
Ciudad del Carmen Salina Cruz
Escárcega San Pedro Tapantepec
Chiapas Ciudad Cuauhtémoc Quintana Roo Cancún
Ciudad Hidalgo Chetumal
Comitán San Luis Potosí San Luis Potosí
Echegaray Sinaloa Mazatlán
El Hueyate Sonora Agua Prieta
El Manguito Tabasco La Venta
Frontera Colozal Temosique
Huehuetán Villahermosa
Mazapa de Madero Tamaulipas Matamoros
Palenque Miguel Alemán
Playa de Catazaja Nuevo Laredo
San Cristobal de las Casas Reynosa
San Gregorio Chamic Tampico
Talismán Veracruz Acayucán
Tapachula El Fortín
Tuxtla Gutiérrez Veracruz
Chihuahua Yucatán Mérida
Distrito Federal AICM Zacatecas Zacatecas
Iztapalapa

[edit] Paisano program

During the Presidency of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the Paisano program was created to assist Mexican nationals returning to Mexico for temporary visits.

[edit] Immigration statistics

[edit] 2004

  • People who traveled to other countries through Mexico: 114,000
  • Number of undocumented immigrants:
By outcome
  • Deported out of Mexico: 211,218
  • Detained in Mexico: 215,695
By country of origin:
  • Foreign visitors registered and documented: 23,048,000
  • Foreign people, permanently residing in Mexico, re-entering the country: 1,582
  • Temporary workers from Guatemala re-entering the country: 41,894
  • Foreign people entering the country temporarily: 19,614,710
By reason of entry
Tourists: 8,770,686
Business travelers: 413,619
Other: 10,430,405
  • People who entered to apply for residencey: 8,513
  • People who received Mexican citizenship: 1,582
  • People who regularized their immigration status: 4,373
By country:
By state of residence:
  • Chiapas: 1,571
  • Federal District: 517
  • Baja California: 305
  • Jalisco: 266
  • Quintana Roo: 222
  • Tamaulipas: 275
  • Campeche: 160
  • Chihuahua: 119
  • Veracruz: 108
By gender:
  • Women: 2,214
  • Men: 2,159

[edit] External links

(Spanish) Official site

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