Immigration Services · Cabo San Lucas
Residency by Family Union — Reunite Your Family in Mexico
Family reunification residency in Mexico. Spouse, children, and parent visas in Cabo San Lucas. Immigration Solutions helps families live together in Cabo.
We help families live together in Mexico. Temporary or permanent resident cardholders may request the entry of qualifying family members, including father, mother, spouse, concubine, and children under guardianship, custody, or who are unmarried.
Immigration Solutions handles family unity applications for residents of Cabo San Lucas, San José del Cabo, and the Cabo San Lucas area, ensuring relationships are properly documented for INM. Family unity is one of the most document-intensive immigration procedures because civil records often originate in multiple countries.
The sponsoring resident must hold valid temporary or permanent status and demonstrate the qualifying relationship with authenticated civil documents. Each family member receives their own resident card with rights and renewal obligations tied to their category.
How the process works
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Confirm the sponsoring resident's valid status and identify each qualifying family member and relationship type under INM family unity rules.
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Obtain, apostille or legalize, and officially translate marriage certificates, birth certificates, custody orders, and other civil registry documents.
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Prepare the family unity visa request or in-country application with INM forms, photographs, and government fees for each applicant.
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File at the Mexican consulate (SRE) abroad or with INM in Mexico depending on each family member's location and current immigration status.
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Complete biometrics and any consular or INM interviews for each applicant.
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Issue resident cards for family members and establish renewal calendar, work-rights review, and eventual permanent residency planning for the family unit.
What you'll need
- Valid passport of each family member applicant with sufficient validity.
- Proof of the sponsoring resident's current temporary or permanent resident card.
- Marriage certificate for spouses; birth certificates linking parents and children; custody or guardianship orders when applicable.
- Apostille or consular legalization and official Spanish translation for foreign civil documents.
- Proof of financial ability to support family members when INM requires it for the sponsor.
- Completed INM application forms, photographs, and government fees for each applicant.
- Consular requirements may apply for applications filed abroad — check SRE guidelines for the consulate with jurisdiction over each applicant's residence.
Why work with a local Cabo San Lucas firm
Family unity cases require consistent civil documentation across countries. Apostilles, translations, and registry corrections are common — we handle these alongside the immigration application from our Cabo San Lucas office.
Our Cabo San Lucas team understands the practical needs of expat families relocating together to Baja California Sur: coordinating spouse and children's applications with the primary resident's renewal or permanent transition.
We work with civil registry documents from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Latin America daily, ensuring INM and consular offices receive authenticated files that match the relationships claimed in each application.
Questions we hear often
Temporary and permanent residents may generally sponsor spouses, concubines, parents, and dependent children under INM family unity provisions. Specific rules define eligible relationships, age limits for children, and documentation for each.
Work authorization depends on the type of resident card issued and annotations on the card. Some family unity residents must obtain separate work permission. We clarify work rights for each family member during application planning.
Foreign marriage certificates typically require apostille or legalization and official translation by a translator authorized in Mexico. Our apostille and translation service supports family unity cases.
INM allows residents to request family unity for parents under qualifying conditions. Parent applications require birth certificates establishing the relationship and proof of the sponsor's resident status.
Each family member, including minors, requires an individual application and resident card. We prepare parent and child files together to keep the family's immigration status aligned.
INM recognizes concubinage (union libre) when properly documented under Mexican law. Documentation requirements differ from marriage-based unity — we assess your civil status and advise on the correct pathway.
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