On 8 September Mexico's federal government sent the Chamber of Deputies a reform of the Ley Federal de Derechos, the federal fees law, published in Gaceta Parlamentaria No. 71211. It is a proposal, part of the 2027 budget package; committees aim to clear the revenue bills through plenary by 15 October. The non-resident fee (Derecho de No Residente, DNR) that every tourist pays would rise from 983 pesos to 1,334.80 Mexican pesos, about 36%.
A new split would send 26% of that fee to Mexico's immigration agency, the Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM), for "border security and migration control" technology, cutting the Defence share from 67% to 50%. Long-stay visitor visas without work rights would rise 153%, and ordinary visas 66%, both to 1,639.80 pesos. For visa-exempt nomads from the United States, Canada and Europe, only the entry fee applies. The steepest increase falls on nationalities that need a visa to stay beyond six months. A companion revenue bill extends 2.5% platform income-tax withholding to companies.
Mexico City moved on lodging. On 30 September its Tourism Secretariat formalised the host and platform registers, with one-year host registrations renewable in the final 30 days2; in August the city had chosen to push its registration deadline to the year's end rather than enforce it. In early September Frida Jimena Guillén Ortiz, a deputy for the opposition National Action Party (PAN), re-filed her 2023 bill3 charging foreign guests a nightly fee from their 21st night4. Under that bill, a foreign guest on a month-long let would pay for the last ten nights, while a Mexican guest staying the same nights would pay nothing.
