Marriage in Peru????

[Vi Mazzella 4]

Actually Maria Reina's chapel is right behind the church, its located in front of Ovalo Gutierrez, is a very commercial area, there's a Chilli's, Friday's, E.Wong, you can't miss it. The priest's name was Edward (60's) a really cool priest. There are two main avenues, Conquistadores and Santa Cruz.

Vi

[MandR 0]

Thanks........ Vi

[Artegal 1]

It is a lot of red-tape to get married in Peru. So why did I do it?

My wife's family could not travel to the USA. But my family could travel to Peru.

Yeah the K-1 route would be a lot less head-ache in paperwork. But we got married in Peru and then petitoned a K-3 (CR-1) and it took about 7 months for the Visa to be issued, which lately has been a lot faster than a K-1.

You should get the HIV test etc in Peru--believe me Medical expense in Peru is way way less expensive than it is here in the USA.

You need to go to the specific Municipality and request the exact procedure for marrying a Foreign national. Each municipality will do things a little different, so.

In general this is how it works.

You must submit Birth Certificates, Divorce Decrees, Death Certificates, Prior Marriage Certificates, Baptismal Records, Passports, DNI, and Passports/DNI of your two witnesses. All notorized. The foreign documents must be certified and legalized by the Peruvian Consulate here in the USA that governs the state where the American lives. Then you must translate all the documents not in Spanish to Spanish, have that translation and the notorized, certified, legalized documents taken to this office in Lima. Where it is certified again. Then when have all your documents in order you submit the packet to the Municipality. They instruct you to run a notice in a newspaper for like a month prior to the wedding date. You must also post an official notice of the wedding flyer in the municipality where you each live. You have to submit the mug shots, take a physical exam for HIV, TB, and general health. They require you to have a police background check in the municipality where you currently reside (as listed on the DNI).

Anyway compare the above to in my state, had I done a K-1 visa and got married here--my wife and I would just show a photo ID and present 25 dollars--and we would be married like that--no blood test--no extra paperwork, no translations, etc.

[V&J2005 0]

is there a way to get marry in Peru if we are alredy marry in USA?

We wanted a religious ceremony but He is not catholic, so what now?

what can we do?

what are the choices?

[ardilla 0]

Hi,

If you were married here in the US via civil wedding, you just need the marriage certificate to prove to the church in Peru that you are legally married. The churches in Peru want to know that the couple is married already (by the civil authorities). That means the couple needs to go through the process of first getting the US marriage license (+translation) legalized by the Peruvian consulate and then secondly legalized by the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. If you live in a city with a Peruvian consulate, this is easy. If not, call the consulate and find out when the will be doing a visit to your city (or nearby). Otherwise you usually have to have this legalization process done in person (both husband and wife must appear and the consul signs the "Registro Civil". We did this -- it took 15 minutes.

Since you don't need to have a civil wedding, you can probably forgo all of the things like the blood tests, payment of fees, medical exams, publishing the announcement in the newspaper, etc. These are actually requirements of the municipality, not the church. Of course, the church has its own requirements

If you want a religious ceremony, why not talk to a church that has a bilingual priest about the options? The one on Ovalo Gutierrez might be a good place to start...it is very pretty at any rate Perhaps if premarital courses are involved, they would accept something done by a Catholic church in the US?

[V&J2005 0]

Hi,

If you were married here in the US via civil wedding, you just need the marriage certificate to prove to the church in Peru that you are legally married. The churches in Peru want to know that the couple is married already (by the civil authorities). That means the couple needs to go through the process of first getting the US marriage license (+translation) legalized by the Peruvian consulate and then secondly legalized by the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. If you live in a city with a Peruvian consulate, this is easy. If not, call the consulate and find out when the will be doing a visit to your city (or nearby). Otherwise you usually have to have this legalization process done in person (both husband and wife must appear and the consul signs the "Registro Civil". We did this -- it took 15 minutes.

Since you don't need to have a civil wedding, you can probably forgo all of the things like the blood tests, payment of fees, medical exams, publishing the announcement in the newspaper, etc. These are actually requirements of the municipality, not the church. Of course, the church has its own requirements

If you want a religious ceremony, why not talk to a church that has a bilingual priest about the options? The one on Ovalo Gutierrez might be a good place to start...it is very pretty at any rate Perhaps if premarital courses are involved, they would accept something done by a Catholic church in the US?

Thanks for the tips I have to go through that process

to proof our marriage in the USA in the case of a religios ceremony.

BUT the thing is that my husband is not catholic so in this case i dont know what I should do, what requirements we need??

Im trying to find it out and if you know something about it let me know.

thank you one more time

veroka