playaboy wrote:
Canadian Rainbirds wrote:
playaboy wrote:
Lou Morris wrote:
We haven't driven across the border in the RV for a few years, and our 10 yr permit expired in November. But we're planning to cross the border this Friday (Jan 6) at Nogales. I'm hoping we can do whatever we have to do to process the expired permit at the same time we apply for the new one, but I expect it might not be that easy. So I'm hoping someone can shed some light on what we might expect.
Also, I have a different passport (and number) than the one we used to for the original (now expired) permit. I don't have the old passport, but I have a copy of my application for the new passport that matches me to the old number as well. Hoping that will be enough proof.
I did search and found a record of our old permit on that SHCP site someone posted a few months ago. So we're in the database.
Anyone have experience with this scenario?
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You are stressing over nothing.
Here is what you do; drive past the INM/Banjercito at the old 20km checkpoint. Make a u-turn and drive up to the vehicle cancellation kiosks, on the right side of the road, opposite the checkpoint. Cancel the old TIP there, they don't care that it is expired. Make sure you have the original paperwork. Keep the receipt.
Now drive north and again make a u-turn. Pull into the large lot, get your FMM, make copies outside the office, then walk to the Banjercito window and apply for the new TIP.
That is all you have to do.
VERY BAD ADVICE
There is a VERY LARGE PENALTY for driving a vehicle with an expired TIP in Mexico. Including CONFISCATION of the vehicle. Just get a new one as has been mentioned several times above BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE DONE THAT. DO NOT mention that the old one expired without being cancelled. You will be safe with the new passport number.
The way I read this, the OP is coming from the States with an RV that has an expired TIP. There is no penalty for driving a foreign plated vehicle or cancelling an expired TIP, in the border zone or the Sonora Hassle Free Zone. The expired TIP needs to be cancelled and a new one issued. This can be done just like I posted above.
So rainbird, am I misunderstanding the OP? What am I missing?
BTW, I have cancelled over 20 TIP's, most of the cars illegal with expired TIP's, in just the last 2 1/2 years, not one of those cars or permits were in my name. I know the system well.
My understanding was that an expired TIP can only be cancelled through Mexico City and that driving with one in Mexico is a big fine. I was told this by one of the Aduana officers at Caborca when inquiring for a friend who was in this same position. His rig had been Canada for several years and would be expired before he returned.
