Getting married In Belarus

[cluelessinny 2]

hello, i have been told not to worry but this is my wedding so I need some one to hold my hand thru this

I plan on getting married when I see my SL In jan, I am from the US and she is Belorussian First what do I need for ZAGS? i have sent passport, statement of freedom, and ZAGS form all notarized and the a word. Do I need anything else? Can she set the appointment without me there? Someone said that i need a letter from my work saying I only have a week is this true? What should it look like. if anyone got married in belarus and can walk me thru this It would help greatly

[Brad and Vika 129]

If you don't get responses to this post, look for VJ members that got a K-3 visa with a Belarussian flag in their profile. PM them. I would bet they can help. Good Luck.

Edited November 25, 2011 by Brad and Vika

[cluelessinny 2]

it is 6 weeks away the documents I mailed haven't reach her yet, I am getting worried

I am staying an extra weekend

I still haven't figured out the reception after ZAGS

Truthfully I will be happy spending 10 days with her

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

hello, i have been told not to worry but this is my wedding so I need some one to hold my hand thru this

I plan on getting married when I see my SL In jan, I am from the US and she is Belorussian First what do I need for ZAGS? i have sent passport, statement of freedom, and ZAGS form all notarized and the a word. Do I need anything else? Can she set the appointment without me there? Someone said that i need a letter from my work saying I only have a week is this true? What should it look like. if anyone got married in belarus and can walk me thru this It would help greatly

You needed that paper work apostilized/apostilled. Also I don't see you listing your birth certificate on there. That stuff needs an apostille also. And when you get there they are going to do some more translating of documents so be prepared for that. I'l ask the wife exactly what I sent her to take to the ZAGS and what paperwork I was signing when I got there....it's been awhile. btw if your future wife lives in or near Minsk, have her do the groundwork. Send here the documents and let her take care of it. It's a lot less of a hassle that way seeing how she's there, she speaks the language and she can deal with anything that comes up. That's what I did and it went smooth as butter. But I do know we had some documents translated when I got there.

Freedom to get married and have it apostilled

Birth Certificate and have it apostilled

Full copy of your passport and have it apostilled

...and I'm missing something here I think...I'l post back on this when she calls me on her lunch break.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

it is 6 weeks away the documents I mailed haven't reach her yet, I am getting worried

I am staying an extra weekend

I still haven't figured out the reception after ZAGS

Truthfully I will be happy spending 10 days with her

10 days is cutting it close to the bone. I sent my wife the paper work a few months in advance and I know that after we went to the ZAGS office to sign some paperwork, we had to get some more paperwork translated and there was a few waiting days for it to be prepared.

As far as a reception...if you plan on having it in Minsk, I know a great resteraunt that rents for cheap. "Paris Corner" near Victory Square. Otherwise go for a private residence and plan on buying a ####### load of vodka...they drink it like fish over there during those things. Her family can do the food, and you can have a wedding cake made up at any bakery. And bribe money. It always pays to grease the people you need something from and need it fast. US dollars are appreciated there...skip the rubles.

Edited December 9, 2011 by Why_Me

[Brad and Vika 129]

10 days is cutting it close to the bone. I sent my wife the paper work a few months in advance and I know that after we went to the ZAGS office to sign some paperwork, we had to get some more paperwork translated and there was a few waiting days for it to be prepared.

As far as a reception...if you plan on having it in Minsk, I know a great resteraunt that rents for cheap. "Paris Corner" near Victory Square. Otherwise go for a private residence and plan on buying a ####### load of vodka...they drink it like fish over there during those things. Her family can do the food, and you can have a wedding cake made up at any bakery. And bribe money. It always pays to grease the people you need something from and need it fast. US dollars are appreciated there...skip the rubles.

Watching this conversation with interest. Ten days seems close for any country honestly.

Kip - is Paris corner in any way related to Spanish Corner? SC used to be on the main drag in Minsk (I forget what they are calling it now). The same company (Russian) owned Planeta Sushi and TGI Fridays. Great food, not too pricey as I recall.

[cluelessinny 2]

You needed that paper work apostilized/apostilled. Also I don't see you listing your birth certificate on there. That stuff needs an apostille also. And when you get there they are going to do some more translating of documents so be prepared for that. I'l ask the wife exactly what I sent her to take to the ZAGS and what paperwork I was signing when I got there....it's been awhile. btw if your future wife lives in or near Minsk, have her do the groundwork. Send here the documents and let her take care of it. It's a lot less of a hassle that way seeing how she's there, she speaks the language and she can deal with anything that comes up. That's what I did and it went smooth as butter. But I do know we had some documents translated when I got there.

Freedom to get married and have it apostilled

Birth Certificate and have it apostatized

Full copy of your passport and have it apostilled

...and I'm missing something here I think...I'l post back on this when she calls me on her lunch break.

I am getting conflicting reports on the need for birth certificate

I will have to bring it with me

I sent the documents but they haven't arrived for her to do the leg work

I forgot about the holiday mail slowdown

I may "bite the bullet" and resend the documents using the one week option, Including the BC this time

Luckily I live near my state capital so this can all be do done in one day

t

Thank you for the help

Edited December 11, 2011 by cluelessinny

[cluelessinny 2]

10 days is cutting it close to the bone. I sent my wife the paper work a few months in advance and I know that after we went to the ZAGS office to sign some paperwork, we had to get some more paperwork translated and there was a few waiting days for it to be prepared.

As far as a reception...if you plan on having it in Minsk, I know a great resteraunt that rents for cheap. "Paris Corner" near Victory Square. Otherwise go for a private residence and plan on buying a ####### load of vodka...they drink it like fish over there during those things. Her family can do the food, and you can have a wedding cake made up at any bakery. And bribe money. It always pays to grease the people you need something from and need it fast. US dollars are appreciated there...skip the rubles.

Her name is Vika also, she is from Vitebsk. I think she has a place in mind, I try not to ask to many questions, we talk a lot and sometimes google translate really drops the ball.

It's funny she keeps bringing up the bar bill and truthfully I don't understand. I am thinking American wedding, beer,wine, soda, and toast

my last visit, their ruble was 5000 to 1, when i left it was 7000 to 1. thankfully I didn't convert much, They were laughing asking me how did it feel to be a millionaire.

oh Did you have to bring a letter from from work saying you only had a short vacation and couldn't stay in Belarus that long.

I sent some advance monies and told her if she had to "tip" people go ahead

Again thanks

[cluelessinny 2]

Watching this conversation with interest. Ten days seems close for any country honestly.

Kip - is Paris corner in any way related to Spanish Corner? SC used to be on the main drag in Minsk (I forget what they are calling it now). The same company (Russian) owned Planeta Sushi and TGI Fridays. Great food, not too pricey as I recall.

With the documents not reaching her yet I am very concerned also about 10 days being not enough time, and She has said something about the big holiday there, next month cutting our 6 weeks to 4

I want to tell her if we have to we can wait to spring to comfort her, but I don't want to come off like our marriage doesn't matter or I am not serious, you know, we ask a lot of our women, to leave everything behind and come to live with us

I will keep everyone posted

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Watching this conversation with interest. Ten days seems close for any country honestly.

Kip - is Paris corner in any way related to Spanish Corner? SC used to be on the main drag in Minsk (I forget what they are calling it now). The same company (Russian) owned Planeta Sushi and TGI Fridays. Great food, not too pricey as I recall.

From the Sushi Corner...the resteraunt right across from the subway station near Victory square, it's around the corner and about a 1/4 mile down that road...it's the same road that takes you to the football stadium. The joint is owned by Georgians and it's connected if you catch my drift. It looks like a dive from the outside, but has an upscale look to it on the inside and you can get just about anything there...and I'm not talking just about food and drink. You want a redhead, give them a few hours or less (enough time to die some hair) and they will find you a redhead. Just don't give them your addy to where your staying at...tell them you will be back in an hour or two or have whoever dropped off at another joint instead of having a cab drop them off to your place. Do that and your taking a chance of getting fleeced when your out and about.

That's looking to the right from my apt. window. That crappy looking building you see is a hostel for the college kids (college is right across the street from that apt. full of hot chicks in mini skirts...used to be my daily hard on with coffee), and that sidewalk you see right to the right of that building takes you to Paris Corner. If you keep on that main road you see and don't take the right at the "Y" it takes you around to the football stadium. I got to see Belarus vs Bulgaria there...good match but Belarus lost 2-1.

That's looking to the left out my apt. window. If you go up to the street corner there you are at the subway station and if you look left from the street corner you are looking right at Victory Square and that big...monument with the star on top of it. That yellow building you see is the college. Best view in Minsk imo was looking at the chicks walk right beneath my window between classes to have a smoke.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

I am getting conflicting reports on the need for birth certificate

I will have to bring it with me

I sent the documents but they haven't arrived for her to do the leg work

I forgot about the holiday mail slowdown

I may "bite the bullet" and resend the documents using the one week option, Including the BC this time

Luckily I live near my state capital so this can all be do done in one day

t

Thank you for the help

OK, this is how it went down...my wife is telling me now. It's a gray area for me... I scanned and sent her my birth certificate with apostile, my freedom to get married paper with apositle..scanned and emailed, and same with my passport. She took that paper work to the OVIR to get my invitation visa and then took it to a translator to get everything translated...with was a month before I got there. Then when I got there we went to the ZAGS office and they set a wedding date for 16 days later. I took the originals with me and that's whats given to the ZAGS office the first time you go there. After you get married you have to go to the Minister of Internal Affairs with that paper work she had translated and with the paperwork you got from the ZAGS office showing your married and they appostile everything and then your good to go. 10 days isn't going to cut it she's saying. Three weeks min. and your wife to be needs to get to the ZAGS office and find out everything they require way ahead of time. Kira says it might have changed since we got married...that was like three years ago. But she needs to do the footwork first. Also the reason I scanned all that paper work with apostiles is so that Kira had plenty of time to get it translated before I got there with the originals.

btw my wife did a few years in Vitebsk that their veterinary school.

[Brad and Vika 129]

With the documents not reaching her yet I am very concerned also about 10 days being not enough time, and She has said something about the big holiday there, next month cutting our 6 weeks to 4

I want to tell her if we have to we can wait to spring to comfort her, but I don't want to come off like our marriage doesn't matter or I am not serious, you know, we ask a lot of our women, to leave everything behind and come to live with us

I will keep everyone posted

Thanks, there are probably some people at the same stage as you reading this, but not posting.

From the Sushi Corner...the resteraunt right across from the subway station near Victory square, it's around the corner and about a 1/4 mile down that road...it's the same road that takes you to the football stadium. The joint is owned by Georgians and it's connected if you catch my drift. It looks like a dive from the outside, but has an upscale look to it on the inside and you can get just about anything there...and I'm not talking just about food and drink. You want a redhead, give them a few hours or less (enough time to die some hair) and they will find you a redhead. Just don't give them your addy to where your staying at...tell them you will be back in an hour or two or have whoever dropped off at another joint instead of having a cab drop them off to your place. Do that and your taking a chance of getting fleeced when your out and about.

Kip - I don't recognize anything in the pictures, but I haven't been to Minsk in years. Spanish Corner was definitely owned by a Russian company though. After the restaurant moved, I only went at night. My ex was the BFF of the mistress of the area manager, so we normally went in his car. It was somewhere close to the Princess Casino I think, but not in the University District. The details are WAY fuzzy at this point. I was starting a business and foolishly trying to drink like they do

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Thanks, there are probably some people at the same stage as you reading this, but not posting.

Kip - I don't recognize anything in the pictures, but I haven't been to Minsk in years. Spanish Corner was definitely owned by a Russian company though. After the restaurant moved, I only went at night. My ex was the BFF of the mistress of the area manager, so we normally went in his car. It was somewhere close to the Princess Casino I think, but not in the University District. The details are WAY fuzzy at this point. I was starting a business and foolishly trying to drink like they do

I couldn't even imagine trying to keep up with those people in regards to drinking and trying to do business. It's hard enough just to maintain when drinking over there let alone have to think about anything other than where you plan on waking up tomorrow, and even that is a hit and miss.

The Princess Casino is in Nemega across the street from the Hotel Planeta and next to a wannabe American joint called the "Saloon". They put a strip bar inside that casino last time I was there.

OK that street corner I was telling you about that's has the Sushi bar on it and the subway station...you can see Victory Square from that corner looking towards downtown Minsk. That monument in the background with the star on it...if you keep on that road it takes you right into Nemega, the Presidential Palace, etc... where all the action is....Hotel Belarus, casino's, Hotel Planeta, etc... it's the main drag for Minsk. The Swislich river runs along side of that road for a decent distance.

[Brad and Vika 129]

I couldn't even imagine trying to keep up with those people in regards to drinking and trying to do business. It's hard enough just to maintain when drinking over there let alone have to think about anything other than where you plan on waking up tomorrow, and even that is a hit and miss.

The Princess Casino is in Nemega across the street from the Hotel Planeta and next to a wannabe American joint called the "Saloon". They put a strip bar inside that casino last time I was there.

OK that street corner I was telling you about that's has the Sushi bar on it and the subway station...you can see Victory Square from that corner looking towards downtown Minsk. That monument in the background with the star on it...if you keep on that road it takes you right into Nemega, the Presidential Palace, etc... where all the action is....Hotel Belarus, casino's, Hotel Planeta, etc... it's the main drag for Minsk. The Swislich river runs along side of that road for a decent distance.

I think they renamed the street since I was there last. That last pic does look familiar though (the background I mean )

Is that star the eternal flame monument?

Edited December 12, 2011 by Brad and Vika

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

I think they renamed the street since I was there last. That last pic does look familiar though (the background I mean )

Is that star the eternal flame monument?

Yep it is with the road going around it on either side.