SDS - Mexico’s passport rule in effect tomorrow. Visitors staying less than 72 hours will be exempt.

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Mexico’s passport rule in effect tomorrow

Visitors staying less than 72 hours will be exempt

By Sandra Dibble, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 12:04 a.m.

Online: For more information about Mexico’s rules for people entering the country, go to uniontrib.com/passport

TIJUANA — A new Mexican federal regulation requiring U.S. and Canadian visitors to present passports when entering Mexico goes into effect tomorrow, but the majority of travelers to Baja California won’t be affected.

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Snippet(s):

"Exempt from the new rule are visitors to border regions who remain in the country for less than 72 hours, according to Mexico’s National Migration Institute. In addition, cruise ship passengers who briefly disembark in Ensenada will not be required to present a passport."

"When announced earlier this month by Mexico’s federal government, the regulations stipulated that all U.S. and Canadian citizens entering Mexico by air, land and sea must carry passports. The measure was quickly modified to exempt border zones after protests by tourism officials and business groups in Baja California and other northern border states."

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"Most U.S. citizens who cross into Mexico already carry passports because of U.S. travel regulations requiring the documents when they re-enter the United States."