Comments on: Yucatan News: Let’s Go to Havana

By: Brenda Thornton

Brenda Thornton — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:39:33 +0000

Did I read in one of your columns, Working Gringa, that you had started a concierge service to assist individuals with assistants or interpretors to assist in such adventures as obtaining and CURP and the other card?

I understand that would take away some of the adventure in it, but sometimes adventure just isn’t what one might want on a given day. At any rate, am I correct in remembering that, or am I having a deep in the duh moment?

By: Anny

Anny — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:24:15 +0000

For your FM3, Ed, don’t forget that you need to write a letter telling them your intent, and take photocopies of every page of your passport and every page of your FM3, as well as your proof of residence (phone bill, electric bill) and photocopies of bank statements for proof of solvency. That should do it!

As for Havana, sure sounds like fun; however, yesterday’s lifting of travel restrictions applies only to Cuban-Americans, so those of you who have those American passports with the little chip in them might find yourselves in trouble. There might be hope; a friend of mine told me that a few seconds in the microwave will silence the chip, and you can always blame it on the Mexican sun!!! Otherwise, it looks like US law requires that both Fidel and Raul be out of power before relations with Cuba can be normalized.

By: Edward Lamp

Edward Lamp — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:18:37 +0000

I too just finished the process myself and it was fast and painless. Now, lets talk about FM3 renewal, any suggestions? Any directions to make that as equally as painless?