A friend is here on a turista visa. He drove in with his car, and has a TIP. He's 2 months in to a 6 month stay.
An emergency has come up in Canada, and he has to return for several days. When this happened to us ten years ago, we only had 2 options: drive the car out of Mexico, go to a southern US airport with the car, fly to Canada, fly back to the airport, and drive the car (new tip, new turista) back to Ajijic from the border. OR Get a special letter/form from imigrado, which took awhile, giving permission to leave the country, and the car, temporarily, and use it to fly to Canada for a few days. In our case, we ultimately did not need to go to Canada after all, and there was some hassle because we didn't actually use the form.
Our experience was 10 years ago. Before the lawyer is back in his office on Monday, I was wondering if anyone knew if the rules had changed in the last 10 years, or if there is a third alternative? I'll get anything confirmed bya lawyer and imigrado, but I'd like any advance info this weekend if you have it. Thanks.