- The Foreign Ministry is promoting the Constitutional reform on nationality among Mexican communities abroad.
- Various areas of the Foreign Ministry met with Mexico's embassies and consulates to discuss the new legal framework for passing on Mexican nationality when abroad.
- The reform grants the unrestricted right to transmit Mexican nationality to the children of Mexicans who were born abroad.
The Institute for Mexicans Abroad (IME) and the offices of legal affairs (DGAJ) and consular services of the Foreign Ministry held a virtual meeting with Mexico's embassies and consulates in Latin America and the Caribbean to strengthen implementation of the 2021 Constitutional reform regarding Mexican nationality.
The DGAJ explained that the reform modifies Chapter II Article 30A of the Mexican Constitution. Now, unrestricted transmission of Mexican nationality by birth is allowed for generations born outside of Mexico, descendants of Mexicans, father or mother, who were also born outside of Mexico.
In accordance with current legislation, the Foreign Ministry's area for legal affairs is responsible for applying and establishing the criteria regarding Mexican nationality. The Foreign Ministry has created internal measures to ensure that Mexicans abroad are registered as Mexicans in order to fully exercise and enjoy their rights as Mexican citizens.
Since its publication in the Official Journal of the Federation on May 17, 2021, the Foreign Ministry has informed Mexico's embassies and consulates of this Constitutional reform to ensure that all children of Mexicans born abroad have the necessary information to exercise their Constitutional right to Mexican nationality.
The Foreign Ministry will conduct an intense campaign among the Mexican communities in Latin America and the Caribbean to guarantee the exercise of Mexican nationality and its transmission to daughters and sons born outside of Mexico.
