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COMAR is required to undertake at least one interview with the applicant and to use
interpreters if the applicant is unable to communicate in Spanish. Once COMAR delivers
its opinion, INM makes a formal statelessness status determination in writing and, where
the person concerned is found to be stateless, immediately issues a certificate to this
effect. A person recognized as stateless is issued a permanent residence card between
five days and one month after the certificate of statelessness is issued. He or she may
subsequently apply for other identity and travel documents.
If the applicant is found not to be stateless, he or she may appeal that decision or apply
for a different legal status under the law, such as that provided by the temporary visitor
card given for humanitarian reasons. These reasons include being an unaccompanied
child, having a close family member with a serious medical condition in Mexico, being
the victim of or witness to a crime in Mexico, family reunification etc. Following the SDP,
and independent of its conclusions, the person may apply for refugee status.
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