I´m sorry you didn´t get more of a response. At the end of October I talked to a couple who was running a small breakfast and lunch place and giving out information and advice about the MM2H program, and they had had to close the business because of not having a business license as a travel agency, , even though they weren´t charging for information and it had all been approved before by the tourism people . Unfortunately, in many countries, rules are applied with a rather appalling randomness.

Were your qualifications well over the financial minimum? If not, you may have run into a defacto decision to raise the qualifications.