Marriage registration at the San Francisco Brazilian Consulate

[nothel 0]

Hello everyone!

I am Brazilian and my husband is USC, I am looking into all the information to register my marriage at the San Francisco Brazilian Consulate. Their webpage is not very clear at some details. For exemple, I got married in Hawaii, belonging to Los Angeles jurisdiction, but I live in Washington state, belonging to San Francisco jurisdiction. It seems I should go to san francisco...but I am confused. Where should I do my marriage registration? With base where I live or with base where I got married?

Another question is, do I send the paperwork before I go or should I just take everything with me and show up at the consulate? if you send it in advance, when do I show up? Do the consulate people contact you and make and appointment or something? My dilema is that I live so far away, I'd have to fly to either one of the consulates, therefore, I need to know everything so I don't waste my time and money.

I have not been successful in getting information from the San Francisco consulate...they won't answer my emails...or my phone calls! I really don't know what to do here.

If someone has any experience with the san francisco consulate...please, any information helps at this point.

thanks a lot!

[mrs. wife! 3]

Hello everyone!

I am Brazilian and my husband is USC, I am looking into all the information to register my marriage at the San Francisco Brazilian Consulate. Their webpage is not very clear at some details. For exemple, I got married in Hawaii, belonging to Los Angeles jurisdiction, but I live in Washington state, belonging to San Francisco jurisdiction. It seems I should go to san francisco...but I am confused. Where should I do my marriage registration? With base where I live or with base where I got married?

Another question is, do I send the paperwork before I go or should I just take everything with me and show up at the consulate? if you send it in advance, when do I show up? Do the consulate people contact you and make and appointment or something? My dilema is that I live so far away, I'd have to fly to either one of the consulates, therefore, I need to know everything so I don't waste my time and money.

I have not been successful in getting information from the San Francisco consulate...they won't answer my emails...or my phone calls! I really don't know what to do here.

If someone has any experience with the san francisco consulate...please, any information helps at this point.

thanks a lot!

Hi, I'm not sure how you do that, but I found at the consular page some infos.

http://www.portalconsular.mre.gov.br/mundo...ro-de-casamento

Also, you can always call the Brazilian consulate and talk to someone there for more instructions.

Good luck =)

[joeyjoey 1]

Hi Nothel,

We took our Marriage Certificate (and passports) to the Brazilian Consulate here in Houston. They don't give you a Brazilian license! They translated it to Portuguese. On our next trip to Brazil, we went to a Cartorio in her home town. Yes, you need to take the documents with you. I would not send them for fear they'd get lost. The Cartorio "recorded" the document in a huge book and kept the originals. Told us to come back in "a few weeks". After about 3 months, we called and it was ready. We authorized my mother-in-law and she went to pick it up and used SEDEX to send it to us. Our marriage was officially registered in Brazil. We received a Brazilian Marriage Certificate. The price was very little, the process very simple. Hope I answered your question!

[bora bora 1]

Hi Nothel,

We took our Marriage Certificate (and passports) to the Brazilian Consulate here in Houston. They don't give you a Brazilian license! They translated it to Portuguese. On our next trip to Brazil, we went to a Cartorio in her home town. Yes, you need to take the documents with you. I would not send them for fear they'd get lost. The Cartorio "recorded" the document in a huge book and kept the originals. Told us to come back in "a few weeks". After about 3 months, we called and it was ready. We authorized my mother-in-law and she went to pick it up and used SEDEX to send it to us. Our marriage was officially registered in Brazil. We received a Brazilian Marriage Certificate. The price was very little, the process very simple. Hope I answered your question!

This is nice to know Joey - thanks for posting. I read that it only costs $20 to register your marriage at the consulate in Miami.

Was that the same in Houston?

I would like to register our marriage with the consulate so if we ever return to Brazil to live it'll be easier for me to get residency (I hope).

[nothel 0]

Hi Nothel,

We took our Marriage Certificate (and passports) to the Brazilian Consulate here in Houston. They don't give you a Brazilian license! They translated it to Portuguese. On our next trip to Brazil, we went to a Cartorio in her home town. Yes, you need to take the documents with you. I would not send them for fear they'd get lost. The Cartorio "recorded" the document in a huge book and kept the originals. Told us to come back in "a few weeks". After about 3 months, we called and it was ready. We authorized my mother-in-law and she went to pick it up and used SEDEX to send it to us. Our marriage was officially registered in Brazil. We received a Brazilian Marriage Certificate. The price was very little, the process very simple. Hope I answered your question!

Thank you Joey...the information is very helpful.

[Ladylethal 12]

Yes, nice info. I've been married 3 years and haven't registered our marriage yet either, and we even went to Brasil last year in August but I completely forgot. I think when I tried it after our marriage the consulate required us to attend in person and since we live in Puerto Rico there was no way I was flying to Miami just to do that. It's going back to my TO DO list though.

[bora bora 1]

Yes, nice info. I've been married 3 years and haven't registered our marriage yet either, and we even went to Brasil last year in August but I completely forgot. I think when I tried it after our marriage the consulate required us to attend in person and since we live in Puerto Rico there was no way I was flying to Miami just to do that. It's going back to my TO DO list though.

We haven't had a reason to register it since we haven't even been back to Brazil yet , but I think it's a good idea. I guess that can be one of my new year's resolutions .