Overview
- Enrollment begins October 16 with RENAPO handling optional sign‑ups at registration modules and storing records in a national identity platform.
- Authorities plan to move from voluntary registration to a mandatory phase starting in February 2026.
- The revamped CURP records fingerprints, iris scans, a photograph and an electronic signature to provide a digitally verifiable identity for public services.
- The Interior Ministry says the INE voter card will remain required for voting and will not be replaced by the new document.
- Relatives of the disappeared and activists warn of privacy and social‑control risks and doubt it will help find living people, noting Mexico’s registry of more than 130,000 not located and concerns it may mainly aid identification of remains.