so the tourist visa means you go back to the border every six months and re-enter and if driving a new tag for the windshield. the temporary lets you have a full year and coming and going across the border if you need to as many times as you want to. permenente, the only thing different, actually two is that you cannot have an American plated car and the Permanent never expires! so at the phoenix consulate I signed up for the permanante….yea!
Phoenix they were polite at the consulate, helpful, courteous and kind. Last week I attempted the same thing in Sacramento and they treated me like a felon...jajaja