Visa

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 Kanada Chile

Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Denmark Estonia Finland Perancis Jerman Greece Hong Kong

Hungary Ireland Israel Italy Netherlands Panama Slovakia Slovenia Sepanyol Sweden Amerika Syarikat 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 dan Barbuda Algeria Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Belarus Benin Bhutan Bosnia dan Herzegovina Botswana Brunei Darussalam Burkina Faso Burundi Cape Verde Kemboja Cameroon Republik Afrika Tengah Chad Republik Rakyat China Comoros Congo Congo, Rep. Dem. (Zaire) Cuba Djibouti Dominika Republik Dominika Timor Leste Ecuador Mesir Eritrea Ethiopia Kepulauan Fiji Filipina Gabon Gambia Georgia Ghana Grenada Guinea

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

Papua New Guinea Qatar Persekutuan Rusia Rwanda Republik Demokratik Arab Sahrawi Arab Saudi Kepulauan Solomon Saint Christopher dan Nevis Saint Vincent dan Grenadines Saint Lucia Sao Tome dan Principe Senegal Serbia Kepulauan Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia Afrika Selatan Sri Lanka Sudan Surinam Swaziland Syria Thailand Taiwan Tanzania Tajikistan Togo Tonga Tunisia Turkmenistan Turki Tuvalu Ukraine Uganda Emiriah Arab Bersatu Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vietnam Samoa Barat Yaman Zambia Zimbabwe

Rujukan

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