Getting through the INM: Showing your appointment and your passport

💬 Use aquí está for one thing and aquí están for several. Handing over passport and papers together calls for aquí están.

💬 Words ending in -ción are feminine and match English "-tion": la confirmación, la información. The c here sounds like (s).

💬 traer means "to bring", but ¿Trae...? here asks whether you have it on you. You'll hear it a lot when staff check for documents.

🇲🇽 Have the INM confirmation email or PDF ready before you reach the window. Some offices ask for a printed copy, so carry one just in case.

💬 la stands in for "it" because la confirmación is feminine and comes before the verb. For a passport you'd say lo tengo.

💬 Mexicans say celular for a mobile phone, not móvil as in Spain.

💬 Spanish says el celular "the phone" where English says "my phone". With your own things, el is the natural choice.

💬 The describing word comes after the noun: residencia temporal, residencia permanente "permanent residency".

💬 para gives the purpose of your visit. Swap in your process: Es para cambio de domicilio "It's for a change of address".

💬 Add ¿verdad? to the end of any statement to turn it into a check, like English "right?".

💬 le means "to you" when speaking politely, and it goes before the verb. devolver "to give back" changes o to ue: devuelvo.

💬 turno means your place in line, usually the numbered ticket. You may also hear Es su turno "It's your turn".

💬 Spanish asks this with the plain "I" verb form, with no extra word like English "do". Same pattern: ¿Dónde firmo? "Where do I sign?"

💬 sala is any large room. At an office it means the waiting area, short for sala de espera.

💬 llaman "they call" has no named subject, so it means staff in general, like English "they'll call you". lo is the polite "you" for a man; a woman hears la llaman.

🇲🇽 INM offices call people by ticket number, often on a screen. Watch it closely, because a missed call can cost your place.

🇲🇽 Mexicans use muy amable constantly to thank officials and clerks. It's warm and polite without being over the top.

💬 con gusto literally means "with pleasure".