IMSS contribution assessments
Social security assessments with calculation errors, covering workers who no longer work for you, or served defectively.
A social security assessment that isn't yours, a denied pension, a fine with no legal basis, a business shut down, or a filing nobody has answered in months. All of it is an act of authority, and all of it can be reviewed by a federal judge. Flat fee from MX$6,900.
Free opinion within 24 h · If a cheaper administrative remedy exists, we tell you
Everything that is neither the tax authority nor immigration lands here. These are the most everyday disputes, and the ones most people let go because they assume nothing can be done:
Social security assessments with calculation errors, covering workers who no longer work for you, or served defectively.
Miscounted weeks, refusals that ignore the evidence submitted, and decisions issued with no legal grounds. We check first whether the labour route fits better.
Payroll deductions for loans you never took out or already repaid, and housing contribution assessments wrongly determined.
Shutdowns executed without a written order, without a hearing or by an authority lacking jurisdiction. The suspension is what saves the business here.
Consumer protection, health, environmental and water authorities. There is usually a mandatory appeal first; we tell you whether you are past that point.
Operating licences, land use, signage and construction permits denied on criteria that appear nowhere in the applicable regulation.
Months of silence on a filing you hold a receipt for. It breaches article 8 of the Constitution and is challengeable on its own, with no deadline running against you.
Property tax determined without legal basis, charges for services never provided, seizure of goods and inspections defective at origin.
Where the law presumes your application was refused by the mere passage of time, the choice between an annulment suit and an amparo has to be made carefully.
Of all the amparos available, this is the one most people could use and almost nobody does. Article 8 of the Mexican Constitution obliges every authority to respond in writing and within a short period to any petition submitted in writing, peacefully and respectfully. It does not say "if convenient" or "when resources allow".
If you filed something, hold a stamped receipt and have heard nothing for months, that omission is challengeable. And it carries a large procedural advantage: while the silence lasts, no deadline expires against you, because the omission renews itself daily. That is unlike a decision, where fifteen business days can end your opportunity.
The outcome is not that the judge decides your application in your favour. It is that the judge orders the authority to answer. That sounds modest, and in practice it is what unsticks files parked for years. We charge MX$6,900 because the work is narrower than challenging a full decision.
Administrative matters are where most amparos are thrown out before a judge reads a single argument. The reason is almost always the same: an ordinary remedy was available and the claimant skipped it.
The rule is that you exhaust the defences the law provides and only then turn to an amparo. Miss that and the case is dismissed. But there are meaningful exceptions that do let you go straight to court:
The decision, the fine, the closure record or the receipt for the filing nobody answered. That tells us the challenged act, the authority and the deadline you have left.
We tell you whether you are at the amparo stage or whether an ordinary remedy comes first, and how viable the suspension looks. Free, in English, no obligation.
A single payment of MX$9,900, or MX$6,900 where only the failure to respond is challenged. We send you the claim to review and sign.
We file electronically before the competent District Court and update you on every ruling, on the suspension hearing and on the judgment.
A flat MX$9,900 with VAT included, anywhere in Mexico. It covers the case review, the claim, the request to suspend the challenged act, filing before the District Court and follow-up through to first-instance judgment. Where the only thing challenged is an authority's failure to respond, the fee is MX$6,900, because the work involved is narrower.
Yes, and it is one of the most useful and least used remedies in Mexican law. Article 8 of the Constitution obliges every authority to respond in writing and within a short period to any petition made in writing, peacefully and respectfully. If you filed something, hold a stamped receipt and have had no answer, that silence is challengeable. It also has a major procedural advantage: while the silence continues, no deadline runs against you, because the omission renews itself daily.
It depends on the origin. Federal fines and those from agencies such as the consumer protection authority, the health regulator or the environmental regulator usually carry an ordinary appeal that must be exhausted first. Municipal and state fines vary by jurisdiction. The governing rule is that if the law gave you a mandatory remedy and you skipped it, the judge dismisses without examining the merits. Working that out is what the free assessment covers.
This is where the suspension is worth more than the judgment, because a closed business loses revenue every day. The first things we check are whether the closure was executed under a written order with proper legal grounds and reasoning, whether you were given a hearing, and whether the authority actually had jurisdiction. Procedural defects in inspection records are extraordinarily common at municipal level.
It can be, but it is rarely the first step. Pension refusals often go first to the labour courts or to an internal review before IMSS, depending on what you are challenging. An amparo comes in once those routes are exhausted, where the refusal states no legal grounds, or where there is pure administrative silence. The cases that succeed most often involve miscounted contribution weeks and refusals that ignore the evidence you actually submitted.
Carefully, because not every charge by a state-owned utility is an act of authority for amparo purposes. Where the relationship is purely one of supply and consumption, the route is usually a complaint before the consumer protection authority rather than a federal lawsuit. Where there is a unilateral service cut-off, a debt determined as a tax credit, or a municipal operator acting in an authority capacity, the analysis changes. This is a case where the free assessment saves real money.
The suspension, which is usually the urgent part, is decided within days: the provisional one can come almost immediately and the definitive one after the incidental hearing. A first-instance judgment typically takes between four and ten months depending on the court's caseload and the complexity of the file. If the losing party appeals to a Circuit Court, add several months more.
Yes. The amparo protects any person or entity in Mexican territory regardless of nationality. Foreign-owned businesses use it regularly against licence refusals, municipal closures and permit issues.
Free, no obligation, in English. If your case calls for an amparo we file it in 72 hours. If an ordinary appeal or a corrected refiling comes first, we say that instead.
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