Originally Posted by
M60_to_LGA
Bumping this thread because I just flew out of Oaxaca to DFW yesterday, and all departing passengers had to go to the immigration kiosk to return our formas migratorias, and they stamped our passports!
I was, to put it mildly, stunned. I've gone to Mexico close to 20 times over the past 12 years (albeit it always flown in/out of MEX), and this was my first time getting an exit stamp or going through any sort of immigration control upon exit. I had assumed that as usual airline gate staff would collect the forms before boarding, but there was some type of security agent standing by the entrance to the pre-gate security area telling everyone to go to the immigration desk.
The guy there scanned my passport, stamped my boarding pass, stamped my passport, and then I was allowed to enter the line for the metal detectors and head to the gate.
I'm bumping this because I'd like clarity on what exactly is going on... I too flew out of OAX recently, and went through the same pattern of exit immigration, along with an exit stamp, that this poster did. I too was caught off guard.
This has nothing to do with the phasing out of FMM cards, but rather, when is formal exit immigration required in Mexico? I have now run across this twice, at OAX, and at the land border with Belize. In the last year I have flown out of CZM, CUN, MEX, PVR, GDL, and MTY, and walked across int'l bridges in Tamps., Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, and BC, and have never been stamped on exit. Does anybody actually know why OAX (and Southern border crossings) require this? Surely there's more to it than "Oaxaca is just weird!"