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The second set of instructions list six further requirements:

1. Properly fill in, sign, date and turn in the request for a migratory procedure. This is a form that I think one has to fill out for nearly all immigration requests. It asks for your name, passport information, email address, physical address in Mexico and what procedure you're requesting. The instructions do not say it, but I was under the impression that I had to fill this out on a typewriter also after talking to the clerk in the Immigration office.
2. Copy (to be turned in) and original (for verification only) of the pages in your passport that have the personal data, photograph, and expiration date. Didn't I already turn in a copy of my entire passport? Yes, I did! Why, do you ask, do they need a second copy? Because bureaucracy in Mexico is just as inefficient as bureacracy everywhere else.
3. Original and two copies of the autorization of the change of status from the Instituto Nacional de Migración. I got this when I went in last Friday. It's a document that states that they have granted my request to switch my status from tourist to rentista.
4. Original and two copies of the receipt showing payment of the FM3 fee. If you are going to be making any money in Mexico (involved in actividades lucrativas), the cost is MXN $1904. If you are not, the cost is only MXN $1172.
5. Properly fill in (by typewriter) and turn in the FM1 form. It can be obtained from the Internet, in which case it must be printed on office size paper. This form has a lot of questions about the applicant's physical appearance, like the height, body type, color of eyes, shape of the nose, size of the mouth, etc. This form also has the place for the 4 cm x 4 cm photos - front and profile - photographs that I have to have taken at a photography studio (see item 6), as well as the right and left index fingerprints.
6. Turn in headshots, four from the front and three from the side, without any glasses or earrings, size 4 cm by 4 cm, taken by a photography studio (not instant photos). They stressed this last bit. Why instant photos are not acceptable is unclear to me. Maybe they requrie that they actually be printed on a certain quality of paper?

Then at the bottom, I believe it says that I will have to present further:

• Original and copy of all the pages of my passport, and
• two more headshots, one from the front and one from the side.

I am not sure of this as the Spanish that precedes these other two bullets makes no sense to me: Tratándose de ministros de culto se deberán presentar además:

If it's true that this means I will need to turn in these other two things, I'm confused as to why they don't just list these two things in the previous set of requirements. Again I blame the efficiency of bureaucracy.