Fast TIP Processing and Delivery

"Tim Brill of Intrepid here. On Monday, October 6, I filled out the Banjercito form to get a Temporary Import Permit. It was easy. I paid my $43.40 online and received a reference number within minutes. On Tuesday, October 7, I scanned a copy of my passport and Coast Guard documentation, and emailed it to Banjercito.

Today, Saturday, October 11, I found that my TIP had been delivered by DHL Express. So no problem!"

That’s great, and is a mirror image of the experience we had applying for a new TIP for Profligate. If we were someone who needed a TIP for the Ha-Ha, that’s probably how we would go about it — but we wouldn’t dally.

Where the problems might come in are down the road, as we know that we’ll have to modify our TIP at a Banjercito branch in Mexico to reflect the fact we have a dinghy, more than nine tools, etc. But getting the basic TIP is the main thing.

By the way, we don’t know what it costs to send a DHL Express letter internationally, but it’s not free. Makes you wonder how much Mexico is netting on TIPs. Not much.