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Living in Mexico

November 23, 2019
We are living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, these days. We arrived 6 months ago on a tourist visa and we are now in the process of getting a 4 year temporary visa. We had to drive to Laredo, Texas to go to the Mexican Consulate there, a 9 hour trip. Everything went without…
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