Mexico Ordinary Passport Application at Consular Offices (Form OP-5)

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and flow and states the current verification claim honestly.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-06

The document was derived from direct text-layer extraction of Form OP-5, the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores' (SRE) own "Solicitud de pasaporte ordinario mexicano en las Oficinas Consulares," fetched from two independent official mirrors. It remains draft, not verified, pending an independent second reviewer's field-by-field pass and a future mock-data test run against a rendering of the real form (e.g. a filled specimen) rather than this document's own dry run (see "Mock test run" below).

Why this document exists

This is a standing GovSchema Standard Research cycle (GOV-1504). Prior cycles (GOV-1414, GOV-1428, GOV-1435; see CATALOG.md) opened Mexico and modelled four of its six verticals (Business Formation, Visa, Taxes, DMV), each time noting Mexico's Passport vertical as "open-but-weak" because "SRE passport (in-person appointment only)" was screened as a weak candidate — the same posture the Philippines' passport gap was in before GOV-1497 picked it back up (see gov1497-ph-dfa-passport-application-scarce-appointment-ethics memory). This cycle re-examined that assumption instead of treating it as settled: every Mexican passport in this registry's other jurisdictions (ph/dfa, kr/mofa, br/pf, us/dos/passport-application-ds11) is likewise ultimately an in-person biometric process, and in-person collection has never on its own disqualified a candidate here — what disqualified prior Mexican attempts was not having found a genuine, directly downloadable, unauthenticated form documenting the applicant-data fields. This cycle found one: Form OP-5.

Source examined

• Document (id, version): mx/sre/passport-application / 1.0.0
• Spec version: GovSchema 0.3.0
• Authority: Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE), United Mexican States
• Primary source URL: https://www.gob.mx/cms/uploads/attachment/file/220463/OP-5_Consulares.pdf
• Corroborating mirror: https://sre.gob.mx/images/stories/imgpasaportes/op5.pdf (a 2-page variant of the same form, base template dated "Mayo-2008," which additionally states the form's régimen jurídico and confirms it covers four named trámites: adult first-time/renewal (A, C) and minor/incapacitated first-time/renewal (B, D))
• Located via: web search for the official SRE passport application form ("Solicitud de pasaporte ordinario mexicano (OP-5)"), landing on both the gob.mx CMS mirror and the legacy sre.gob.mx path, plus a third-party municipal-government mirror (atlacomulco.gob.mx) hosting the same file under a 2025-dated "Catálogo de Formatos" listing, corroborating the form is still current and in active circulation.
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-06
• Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (initial authoring source-review)

Access and extraction method

Both gob.mx and sre.gob.mx URLs returned HTTP 200 directly, no login gate, no CAPTCHA, no WAF block. Both PDFs carry a genuine text layer (not a scanned image) — confirmed by extracting each page's text content via pdfjs-dist directly (no OCR/vision step needed). The single-page gob.mx variant was used as the primary source since it lays out the complete field set (fields 1-25) on one page; the 2-page sre.gob.mx variant was used to corroborate the form's régimen jurídico, free-of-charge status, and the four-trámite scope statement quoted above.

The "Filiación" (physical-description) section (field 24) is a dense five-column checkbox grid (Tez / Complexión / Color de cabello / Tamaño de cabello + Tipo de cabello / Color de ojos) that a naive linear text-extraction pass would misattribute, since PDF text-extraction order does not always follow visual column order. To recover the correct grouping, every text item's exact glyph x/y coordinates were extracted (via each item's transform matrix) and sorted, confirming:

• Tez (x≈53-60): Amarilla, Blanca, Morena clara, Morena obscura, Negra, Rosada, Otra — 7 options.
• Complexión (x≈109-122, y 478-451): Delgada, Media, Robusta — only 3 options; no "Otro" renders at this column's x-position at any y (confirmed by scanning the full item list for any "Otro"/"otra" token at x≈109-122; none found below y=451).
• Color de cabello (x≈175-193): Negro, Castaño obscuro, Castaño claro, Entrecano, Cano, Rubio, Otro — 7 options.
• Tamaño de cabello (x≈245-264, y 478-442.8): Corto, Mediano, Largo, Otro — 4 options — and, in the same x-column but a distinct, separately headed field placed directly below it (header "Tipo de cabello" at y=421.8, i.e. below Tamaño de cabello's own last option row at y=442.8): Tipo de cabello: Calvo/rapado, Ondulado, Lacio, Rizado — 4 options. These are modelled as two separate schema fields (hairLength, hairType) because the source's own two headers ("Tamaño de cabello" and "Tipo de cabello") are distinct, not because of an assumption.
• Color de ojos (x≈327-335): Azules, Café claro, Café obscuro, Grises, Negros, Verdes, Otro — 7 options.
• Estatura ("Metros: ____") and Peso ("Kilos: ____") are free write-in values, not checkbox enums, each placed in its own labelled sub-box within the Filiación section.

Fields 1 (Lugar/Oficina Consular) and the top-of-form "Fecha" (form completion date) were confirmed present via the same coordinate extraction but are deliberately not modelled as fields[] (see "What was deliberately NOT modelled" below).

The bottom "Nacionalidad"/"Identificación" checkbox blocks (bearing field 9's "Identificación que presenta" label) and the "Campos de control" processing checklist were confirmed, via the same coordinate data, to sit inside two boxes each headed "Uso exclusivo SRE" (for SRE internal use only) — i.e. these are ticked by consular staff recording which document the applicant physically presented and which internal processing steps (Recepción/Revisión/Digitalización/Entrega/etc.) have been completed, not boxes the applicant fills in on their own copy. The two identification-proof checkbox lists are nonetheless modelled as documents[] entries (the applicant must still bring one of each listed document type), while the "Campos de control" checklist is excluded entirely as pure office-internal workflow tracking (see "What was deliberately NOT modelled").

What was confirmed directly (verbatim, from the source text layer)

• All 25 numbered field labels (1 through 25), in their literal Spanish wording, each independently cited in fields[]/documents[] sourceRef values.
• The Filiación grid's exact 5-column, 7-field structure and every option's exact spelling, as detailed above.
• Three explicit textual qualifiers used to set required/requiredWhen: field 13's "(sólo para renovación)" (previousPassportNumber requiredWhen applicationType=canje), field 23's "(dato opcional)" (email optional), and field 2's own instructional page 2 text "en caso de contar con la misma" (CURP conditional, modelled optional).
• The three-way trámite categorization (Primera vez / Canje / Reposición) and three-way vigencia categorization (1 año / 3 años / 6 años), both under the shared "Tipo de pasaporte" heading.
• The two-option civilStatus checkbox set (Soltero(a)/Casado(a)) — a full-page keyword scan for "Viudo", "Divorci", "Unión libre" across every page of both PDF mirrors found no match, confirming (rather than merely assuming) that no wider option set is present in this form's text layer.
• The data-disclosure consent clause's exact legal citation (Ley Federal de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información Pública Gubernamental, arts. 18-19) and the sworn-declaration attestation's exact statement text (Código Penal Federal, art. 247 fracción I), both quoted verbatim in documents[]/fields[].

What was inferred (not independently confirmed) and why

1. curp required/optional status. The form's own page-2 instructions frame CURP as conditional ("en caso de contar con la misma"); modelled as required: false. A third-party summary of the separate citas.sre.gob.mx online-booking account-registration flow states that flow requires an "active CURP" up front — that is a different system's account-creation gate, not independently confirmed against this form itself, so it was not used to override this document's own required marker. A reviewer with access to that booking flow should confirm whether a citizen who has no CURP has any account-registration path at all, and if so, correct this field.
2. stateOfBirth/municipalityOfBirth/localityOfBirth required status. Modelled as optional because the form does not visibly gate these on countryOfBirth, and this registry's Condition grammar (GSP-0013) can only compare against a fixed value, not express "only applicable when country is Mexico" against a free-text country field without hard-coding a literal country string this document did not observe being required to match exactly (e.g. "México" vs "Mexico").
3. heightMeters/weightKilos bounds. No minimum/maximum is published on the form; none is asserted in validation, consistent with this registry's practice of not inventing unsourced bounds.
4. build (Complexión) having only 3 options, no "Otro." Directly observed (see extraction method above) but flagged here since every other Filiación column has an "Otro"/"Otra" catch-all and this one's absence is slightly surprising; a reviewer with a physical/rendered copy of the form should double check this is not a text-extraction artifact (e.g. an "Otro" option rendered as a checkbox glyph with no adjacent text label that pdfjs-dist's text-content API would not surface).
5. documents[] acceptedTypes slugs (e.g. mcas, ife, credencial_del_inapam) are this document's own snake_case slugging of the source's literal option labels, consistent with this registry's existing MX convention (mx/semovi/alta-vehiculo-foraneo's ownerPersonType/vehicleOrigin enums use the same slugging style for Spanish-language source options).
6. No repeating/array field type (GSP-0009). Not applicable — no repeating structure was found in the field inventory.

What was deliberately NOT modelled (and why)

1. Field 1 (Lugar / Oficina Consular) and the form's own completion date. These identify which specific consular office is processing the request and when the paper was filled in — office/session logistics, not passport-application data, consistent with how this registry excludes office/branch/date-of-visit selection elsewhere (ph/dfa/passport- application's Site Location/Date and Time steps; kr/mofa/passport- application-first-adult's office selection).
2. "Campos de control" / internal processing checklist (Recepción, Revisión, Digitalización, Entrega, Captura, Biométricos, Impresión, Ensamble) and the "Autorizó" sign-off line. Confirmed via coordinate data to sit inside "Uso exclusivo SRE" boxes — SRE's own internal request-tracking workflow, not applicant-submitted data.
3. Wet-ink signature and fingerprint capture ("Firma del solicitante," "Índice izquierdo," "Índice derecho"). Physical biometric/signature actions performed in the consular officer's presence, not form-field data — the same exclusion this registry applies to every other in-person biometric passport/ID process (e.g. ae/icp/emirates-id-replacement's fingerprint capture, ph/dfa/passport-application's photo capture at the appointment).
4. Minor / legally-incapacitated applicant path (trámites B and D). The sre.gob.mx mirror's page 2 confirms Form OP-5 also covers "Menores de edad o incapacitados" and "Canje de pasaporte ordinario a menores de edad o incapacitados," which require an additional parent/guardian/legal- representative consent and identification block not modelled here. This document is scoped to an adult (18+) applicant, consistent with every other first-time/renewal passport schema in this registry drawing the same adult/minor boundary.
5. The separate citas.sre.gob.mx online-appointment-booking flow's own account-registration and slot-selection data (site, date, time, session/CSRF tokens). That is a different system from Form OP-5 itself; modelling it would require its own source-review pass against that live system, which this cycle did not perform (see "Path to a verified claim" below).
6. The "Hoja de Datos Complementarios" supplementary sheet encountered during this cycle's research (a 2025-dated form hosted by a municipal mirror, alongside the same "Solicitud de pasaporte.pdf" filename) appears to use a more granular, differently-worded trámite categorization (Vigente / Mutilado o deteriorado / Vencido / Modificación de datos / Sin hojas útiles / Por extravío / Por robo) than Form OP-5's three-way Primera vez/Canje/Reposición. Rather than merge two differently-categorized sources into one hybrid schema, this document models Form OP-5 alone, coherently. Reconciling whether that supplementary sheet reflects a newer official categorization that should supersede Form OP-5's own trámite field in a future version is left as an open question for the next reviewer.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

1. Independently re-confirm every field label and option set against the source PDF's text layer (or, ideally, a physically filled specimen).
2. Resolve the CURP required/optional question (item 1 above) by examining the citas.sre.gob.mx account-registration flow directly.
3. Confirm whether build (Complexión) genuinely has no "Otro" option (item 4 above).
4. Determine whether the "Hoja de Datos Complementarios" sheet (item 6 above) reflects a newer official trámite categorization that should be incorporated in a future MINOR/MAJOR version.
5. Confirm SRE has not since revised Form OP-5's field numbering or layout.

Mock test run (phase 4)

A throwaway Node script (not committed) built a mock application — an adult Mexican national born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, applying for a first-time (primera_vez) 6-year passport, single, residing in Los Angeles, California — and checked every populated field against its type/validation constraint and every requiredWhen-gated field's effective requiredness given the mock's own answers (applicationType: primera_vez correctly left previousPassportNumber not required; civilStatus: soltero correctly left spouseName not required). A second mock — a divorced-in-practice applicant renewing (canje) a passport, forced to pick civilStatus: soltero since no other option exists in the source's own checkbox set — confirmed previousPassportNumber becomes required as expected. Result: PASS, 42 fields modelled across 5 flow steps, 4 documents modelled. This is a data-shape dry run only — it does not constitute execution of the live system, per the deliberate scope limit above (Form OP-5 is a paper form completed in person; there is no live web wizard to execute against).

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-06 (~6 months). Re-check the source, and confirm no structural change to Form OP-5 or its field numbering, on or before that date and on any source.url change.