Got appointment in Juarez, but wife's Mexican passport is now expired

[dro4739 5]

So yesterday morning my wife and I received a notification that she has an appointment scheduled in Ciudad Juarez. She is in the IR1 category and we had to do the I-601A petition and have been waiting for literally almost six years for this. However, when we went through our documents last night we discovered that her Mexican passport expired one month ago. We tried to see if we could schedule an emergency appointment but apparently the Mexican consulates near us are not taking any appointments, even in emergency situations.

 

Can anyone offer any advice on what we should do? I'm assuming she'll need a non-expired Mexican passport in order to go through this process? We were so excited to finally get an appointment and now we are feeling deflated and helpless! 

[Boiler 45,658]

Check but hopefully she can enter Mexico with an expired passport. She will need to obtain a current passport for her visa to enter the US.

[dro4739 5]

Thank you! And do you happen to know how difficult it would be for her to obtain a new passport while in Mexico? Or how long that might take? I just fear she could get stuck there or that this could delay the process even further.

[Boiler 45,658]

I do not know but she should, she obtained a passport in the first place.

[Chancy 6,241]

*** Moved from IR1/CR1 Process & Procedures to the regional forum, for Mexico-specific input ***

 

[Allaboutwaiting 2,503]

She makes an appointment at any border location in Mexico, crosses the border and gets her passport in one day.

[dro4739 5]

1 hour ago, Allaboutwaiting said:

She makes an appointment at any border location in Mexico, crosses the border and gets her passport in one day.

Thank you for this! Are the consulates on the border taking appointments right now? I guess I will need to look into this and find out. If we travel by car together and I have my passport and we have our marriage certificate, her ID, as well as the confirmation of her appointment in Juarez, is it likely they will allow her into Mexico even though her passport is expired?

[Boiler 45,658]

She is a Mexican Citizen, so she could have an extra process but I have seen those without an expired passport enter ok.

 

The US has a consulate at CDJ, but you know that.

 

 

 

 

[Allaboutwaiting 2,503]

2 hours ago, dro4739 said:

Thank you for this! Are the consulates on the border taking appointments right now? I guess I will need to look into this and find out. If we travel by car together and I have my passport and we have our marriage certificate, her ID, as well as the confirmation of her appointment in Juarez, is it likely they will allow her into Mexico even though her passport is expired?

As you're in Sacramento you'll probably enter to Tijuana through San Ysidro -first you'll need to check if there's passport appointments available-. They won't require any of you to show ID/passport when entering Mexico. The issue would be for her to enter back into the US.

 

Another choice is getting an appointment in Cd. Juarez a few days before the interview.

Mexican passports are issued on the same day.