I see this conversation appeared a year ago, however I am going to weigh in here because Spencer handled our original RT visa and our 3 year extension. We understood that our TIP automatically followed our visa status. This may be the case, however we were driving back Saturday from the states and were stopped outside of Chihuahua by the Feds. They claimed our TIP had expired and we were driving my truck illegally. We explaines to them our TIP follows our Visa....but they would have known of it. We talked to 3 officers the last of whom apoke good English. The bottim line was we had no document showing the expiration date of our TIP. We had to drive back to the border to exchange our TIP...3 hours each way plus gas and hotel. We now have a TIP expiration date that matches our Visa expiration. Problem is my wife and daughter have cars here and they don't have that. You had better have documentation regarding your TIP status. Just spouting off about the law or some data base as some where isnt going to work if your Federal police think otherwise, its Saturday, and your in the middle of nowhere
