Where do I pay for 6 mo tourist visa

[DonaldW]

Greetings and thanks for accepting my membership request. I am one of those sort of oddball travelers in that I often ride the bus here from Texas and either bus or fly back home. When you ride the bus through Laredo at night, your bus stops at the bridge and they give you a tourist card for up to 180 days. In 2008, they used to collect the fee and stamp the card paid. Then in 2010 they started giving you the card but asking you to "pay at the bank". Not knowing what that meant, up until 2014 I didn't pay and no one said anything about it. But there were some law changes recently and during my return home (via bus) 3 months ago, I was removed from the bus and requested to pay the fee (ouch!) while crossing the guard station just south of Laredo.

Also recently my sister, who also comes here to visit quite often, also who most of the time flies home from here, recently ran into a situation where she had not paid the fee and she discovered the office where you can pay this fee at the airport was closed early in the morning and she almost missed her flight.

So ..... here's the story.... I am about to leave here with an unpaid card also on an early flight. Therefore I am trying to find out how to pay this fee that is associated with the temporary tourist visa, here in Guanajuato GTO area. (San Miguel is an option if it can't be done here.) I would like to pay and finish the paperwork prior to my anticipated struggle to make the early AM flight and chancing I will miss my flight if the fee collection station is far from the gate and/or closed.

Does anyone know where to pay that fee here in GTO GTO? My Spanish skills get me around town with no problem, but they can't take me through understanding this part of the tourist visa and any governmental agencies. Any help is appreciated.