Your Facilitator

Andrea Durazo

I'm Andrea Durazo, founder of Llave Group. I help English-speaking clients through the Mexican residency visa process — assembling the documents, preparing for the consular interview, and staying with each case from start to finish. My firsthand consular experience is what shapes how I guide every client.

Backed by firsthand consular experience.

What I do

Llave Group prepares Mexican residency visa applications for English-speaking clients applying through consulates in the United States. In practice that comes down to three things: getting your document set right before a consular officer ever sees it, making sure your financial evidence reads the way a consulate needs it to read, and being reachable on the days that actually matter.

I work in English and Spanish, and I handle the Spanish side of the process so you don't have to.

How a case runs

  • A free consultation. We compare your income or savings against the current threshold and I tell you plainly whether you qualify. If you don't, I say so on that call — it costs you nothing and saves you a trip.
  • Document preparation. Passport, photos, financial statements, and apostilles where they're needed — assembled and checked against the requirements of the specific consulate you're applying to, not a generic list.
  • Interview preparation. What the consular officer is likely to ask, what your statements need to show on their face, and which questions you should answer briefly rather than expansively.
  • Consulate day. I'm reachable by phone and WhatsApp while you're there, in case something comes up at the window.
  • The canje in Mexico. Your consular visa is not your residency card — it's permission to enter and finish the process. You have 30 days from entering Mexico to begin the exchange at an INM office, and I stay with you through that step, which is where most people are left on their own.

Area of Expertise

Arizona has four Mexican consulates — Phoenix, Tucson, Nogales and Douglas — which is more than any other state. Clients from California, Colorado and across the Mountain West route their applications through Arizona for exactly that reason: when one consulate's calendar is full, there are three others. I work across all four and choose based on live appointment availability and your travel logistics.

What I don't do

  • I'm not a lawyer. Llave Group is a document preparation and facilitation service, not a law firm, and nothing I give you is legal advice.
  • I can't buy you an appointment or move you up a queue. Consulate appointments come out of the consulate's own booking system. Anyone who tells you otherwise is not being straight with you.
  • I can't guarantee approval. The consular officer decides, and that discretion is real. What I can do is make sure nothing in your file hands them an easy reason to say no.
  • I don't work for the Mexican government, and no facilitator does. You are always free to apply on your own — plenty of people do it successfully, and if that's the better call for your situation, I'll tell you that too.