Mexico (flight plan question)

[RobertoTohme]

This is a complicated issue, that scares me a lot. Mexico has just a few airports that you can use as a first point of entry. If you land somewhere else you are In BIG PROBLEMS... but overall the procedures are not very transparent, nor clear. Last time I flew with a friend of mine into Mexico on our way to the US, we landed in Cozumel Mexico. Did all the procedures, bought a multiple entry permit from Guatemala into Mexico. But on our way back from the US, we landed in Cozumel again and did the paperwork again. To our surprise they wanted to charge us again for the entry permit. So we showed the multi entry permit that we had paid for. The answer was, yes that is a multiple permit to enter from Guatemala into Mexico, but you are coming from the US. So, Gringo, pay or stay. So we paid, of course we are still waiting for the official invoice and receipt.

That is true; once you get a multiple entry permit, its good only for entries FROM the country you arrived when you got it.  I have my yearly multiple entry permit from the US, but when I go to Costa Rica and come back through Tapachula I have to pay for that one too.  Don't get mislead; there are plenty of airports of entry, and the process is the same at all airports; you just run into not friendly officers at some of those airports; some of them are borderline @$$holes, some are pretty easy to deal with...  Luck of the draw.