Online Tourist/Immigration Card for Mexico

[bobpark56]

Has anyone here yet used an online tourist card for Mexico? Instructions say to print the card on one sheet of paper. How does the return half then get returned to you when you pass through Immigration?

 

[Eric B]

Use it every time - it prints as two filled in forms on a sheet of paper in landscape orientation. When you pass through immigration they will tear it.

Be sure you use the actual Mexican government site. I've seen a couple of other sites that let you fill it in, but am hesitant to share my info through third parties.

 

[Joan-OH]

I have used it at least 6 times. Print double sided.

 

[Eric B]

Never printed double sided for me. If you do that somehow, the two parts wouldn’t be separable.

 

[bobpark56]

Never printed double sided for me. If you do that somehow, the two parts wouldn’t be separable.

I think that's up to your printer. I had no problem...just told my printer to print 2-sided.

 

[Eric B]

I think that's up to your printer. I had no problem...just told my printer to print 2-sided.

If you print it two-sided, how do they separate the entry form from the exit form? I just print the one-sided page with the two adjacent forms that they tear apart and retain the entry portion at immigration.

 

[pittle]

Thanks for the reminder. I would have remembered Friday when I checkin online, but have them printed and signed for Saturday arrival.

 

[dioxide45]

No problem printing it for our last couple trips. Just fold and do a hard crease so it will be easier for the immigration officer to tear it when you enter. The only problem we had was getting the airline attendants to not force their forms upon us when we told them we did them online already. They said we needed THEIR form!

 

[bjones9942]

There's only one side to the printed page, so printing double sided will get you the form on the front and nothing on the back. If it printed differently, the immigration agent would stop you and have you fill out one of their pre-printed forms. I used the online version multiple times, and yes - I folded the paper and got a good crease going so the agent could tear it easily. The first couple of times they just looked at me funny and I had to tell them "Es nuevo - en linea" (it's new, online). I like them better as everything prints more legibly than my handwriting while I'm writing on a tray table in a shaky airplane