Mexico
Temporary residency by economic solvency
Included because people search for it as a golden visa, and it is not one. Buying a house in Mexico grants you nothing immigration wise. Residency is a solvency test against income or savings, assessed at a consulate, indexed to the UMA.
Temporary residency by economic solvency
About MXN 1.34 million in savingsOr about MXN 79,800 per month of income
Property does not qualify you
This is the most persistent myth in the Americas. Mexican residency by economic solvency looks at your income or your bank balances, not at what you own in Mexico. A property purchase can support an application as evidence of ties, but it is not the qualifying asset.
Consulates vary, on purpose
The thresholds are multiples of the UMA and each consulate converts at its own exchange rate on its own day, so the dollar figure you are quoted in Houston and the one quoted in Toronto will not match. The 2026 UMA is MXN 117.31 per day, and the figure resets every January.
Where it wins
Proximity, flight connections, and the ability to convert to permanent residency after the temporary period. Where it loses: no capital route, and no way to buy your way past the solvency test.
The facts, in one place
| Status | Open |
| Threshold | About MXN 1.34 million in savings, Or about MXN 79,800 per month of income |
| What it grants | Temporary, up to 4 years, convertible |
| Stay requirement | Must actually reside to renew |
| Citizenship | Generally 5 years, or 2 for Latin American and Iberian nationals |
| Governing instrument | Ley de Migracion and its Reglamento; thresholds indexed to the UMA, MXN 117.31 per day for 2026 Primary source |
| Last verified | 17 September 2026 |
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Compare this against the two programs closest to it
Tell us the budget, the goal and the timeline. If Colombia fits, we introduce you to an immigration lawyer and a broker who has closed for foreign buyers before. If it does not fit, we say so and point you at the program that does.