Visas

What support will Wikimania provide for my visa application?

• If you are attending Wikimania 2015 and require a visa, the Wikimedia Foundation can provide you with a letter to support your visa application. Please note that beyond providing a supporting letter, the Wikimedia Foundation is unable to influence the visa application process.
• If you require a supporting letter, please contact visas@wikimedia.org. You should include your full name, home address and passport number in your email. If you know the address of the place you are applying for a visa from and/or the name of a person you have been dealing with there then it is useful to also include this.
• WMF Scholarship recipients who require a supporting letter, please state that you are a scholarship recipient in your request.
• For all visa requests, we would like to recommend to start the process with enough time prior your departure.

No visa required

According to the National Migration Institute, INM, citizens from the following countries or regions don't need a visa to travel to Mexico for recreation, business or any unpaid activity for no longer than 180 days.

Andorra Argentina Australia Austria Bahamas Barbados Belgium Belize Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile

Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hong Kong

Hungary Ireland Israel Italy Netherlands Panama Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland United States of America Uruguay

Any foreign person who has any of the following documents shall not require Mexican visa:

• A document certifying permanent residence in Canada, USA, Japan, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, or any of the countries of the Schengen Area;
• Valid visa from the United States of America
• Card APEC Business Traveler (ABTC) approved by Mexico
• Certificates testifying as a crew member of the aircraft that arrives, or seafarer's book, if a member of the crew of the vessel up to the Mexican port in international voyage. If the above by air crew to enroll in a national ship anchored in port, you must present the seafarer's book, document certifying their enrollment, data from the boat and the Mexican port where this is located.

Visa required

Citizens from the following countries or regions do need a visa to travel to Mexico, but pay no fee to acquire it:

• Bolivia
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• Honduras

Citizens from the following countries or regions do need a visa to travel to Mexico

Afghanistan Albania Angola Antigua and Barbuda Algeria Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Belarus Benin Bhutan Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brunei Darussalam Burkina Faso Burundi Cape Verde Cambodia Cameroon Central African Republic Chad People’s Republic of China Comoros Congo Congo, Rep. Dem. (Zaire) Cuba Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt Eritrea Ethiopia Fiji Islands Philippines Gabon Gambia Georgia Ghana Grenada Guinea

Guinea-Bissau Equatorial Guinea Guyana India Indonesia Iraq Iran Ivory Coast Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kyrgyzstan Kiribati Kuwait Laos Lesotho Lebanon Liberia Libya Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Maldives Mali Morocco Mauritius Mauritania Myanmar Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Mozambique Namibia Nauru Nepal Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea Oman Pakistan Palestine

Papua New Guinea Qatar Russian Federation Rwanda Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Saudi Arabia Solomon Islands Saint Christopher and Nevis Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Lucia São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Serbia Seychelles Islands Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sri Lanka Sudan Surinam Swaziland Syria Thailand Taiwan Tanzania Tajikistan Togo Tonga Tunisia Turkmenistan Turkey Tuvalu Ukraine Uganda United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vietnam Western Samoa Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe

References

We recommend you review the following references prior to your travel for any updates.