Mexico will grant transit permits for 20 days to migrants with a CBP One appointment.

The government of Mexico will begin to grant a transit permit for 20 days to migrants who have a scheduled CBP One appointment.

The National Institute of Migration (INM) issued a statement on Saturday announcing the launch of an emerging safe mobility corridor to assist in the land transfer of foreign individuals who have a CBP One appointment.

According to the document, the project is part of an inter-institutional strategy aimed at ensuring the safety of foreign individuals who choose to travel by land to their appointment entry point. "In order to protect family unity, the immigration authority will prioritize these groups to travel together," it specifies.

The INM will establish two exit points to assist migrants, which will be located at the Migration Station in Villahermosa, Tabasco, and at the Southern Zone Migration Regulation office in Tapachula, Chiapas.

People with a confirmed CBP One appointment who decide to go to the scheduled location for their appointment through the so-called Emerging Safe Mobility Corridor will receive a Multiple Migration Form (FMM) valid for 20 days, which will allow them to have regular stay status during their journey.

"In a joint security effort, the buses designated for transportation will be accompanied by security institutions at the federal, state, and municipal levels; additionally, food will be provided during the corresponding trips," the statement details.

The INM reminds that to date, 300 people who requested their CBP One appointment in Tabasco and Chiapas received a response to their request in a few days.

"In this way, the INM promotes actions in institutional coordination aimed at working for safe, regular, orderly, and humane migration," the entity emphasized.

Last week, the Mexican government announced that it would allow migrants with a CBP One appointment to transit through its territory to any of the eight entry points to the United States enabled by this platform: Matamoros, Reynosa, and Nuevo Laredo in Tamaulipas; Piedras Negras in Coahuila; Ciudad Juárez in Chihuahua; Nogales in Sonora; and Mexicali and Tijuana in Baja California.

Starting August 23, the United States government expanded the scope of the CBP One app, used to manage asylum applications at the southern border, to all of Mexican territory for nationals of that country, and to Tabasco and Chiapas for other nationalities.

The expansion driven by the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) does not benefit all migrants equally. The possibility of scheduling appointments under the new guidelines will be limited to certain nationalities, leaving others with geographic restrictions.

Non-Mexican migrants, including Cubans, can now make their appointments from Chiapas and Tabasco, regions where it was previously not allowed to start the process. They can also do this from the northern and central areas of the Aztec country, as was usually done.