Guzmán’s lawyers still have appeals they can file, however, and the process could take “weeks or months” to finalize, as The Associated Press reported.

“We are going to do it, but not right away, because it’s a process you have to fight with arguments,” lawyer Jose Refugio Rodriguez said earlier this week. “We have 30 days.”

And as the Two-Way has reported, the head of Mexico’s extradition office, Miguel Merino, warned in January that Guzmán’s legal team could delay the extradition for four to six years.