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naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

What a pain. We were planning on getting married in June and found out I needed a document saying I am single and to translate my birth cert. Of course, I would need to get them legalised by the embassy, then translated, then legalised the originals and translations by the Peruvian Consulate in Chicago and then legalised by the Foreign Affairs here.So then we planned it for late August. So I could go during my vacations, now, and get the docs. Now I don't have my passport, so I ccan't get the single doc from the embassy.
HOpefully in October, when I go to the States for a visit I can get the docs and then fingers crossed we can get married in febrary.
WE also need a medical and police report saying where we live.
I would tell people to go to their own country and get married, because here it's nearly impoosible for foreigners to get married.

moonraven · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 3094

This is SOP all over Latin America for foreigners. In Mexico you also have to submit documentation showing that it has been a long term relationship, too.

Why do you not have a passport?

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

Yeah and according to the US state dept, it's super difficult here. I don't have a passport, because I'm staying for another eyar, so they are renewing my visa. I haven' had a passport since June 1st, I found out that it was sitting in someone's desk for three weeks before they sent it, hopefully I will get it back in Mid'August.

moonraven · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 3094

Two and a half months without a passport?!!!

Are you working for a university or a white slaver?

Justin Trullinger · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:08 pm Post subject:

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MELEE · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:56 pm Post subject:

I'm coming up on my 2 year anniversary.
While marriage in Mexico was a pain, it sounds worse in Peru. The thing is we COULDN'T get married in the US because my husband was dennied entry to the US for being a poor indio from Oaxaca. (I know that's an explosive statement, but when you strip down the thing to its essense it's true.)

We didn't need to show it was a long term relationship, but I did have to petition for permission and pay for the right to get married. Another wife refered to is as "buying a Mexican". But basically getting married is not one of the activities you are authorized to do with an FM3 so you have to get permission to do so whether the person you are marrying in Mexican or not. I think Mexico should streamline the process so they can bank in on the "destination wedding" craze.

moonraven · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 3094

It's up to the discretion of both the US and Mexican immigration folks.

I backed out of marrying my partner when we saw the list of b.s. we had to go through in the Registro Civil. But friends who got married a year before we were considering it did have to jump through some hoops because the guy was from the US and wanted to arrange for a visa for the woman he was marrying. Both governments looked at their courtship letters!

Flo · Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 112

I think I posted something before about that university sending off passports and not giving them back in a timely manner. It takes a week (3 business days) for the office in Lima to process a work visa. They need the passport to do this, apparently. The problem with the Uni is they have their "courier" transport it to Lima personally. While they are waiting for a "shipment" to be ready to send, the passports are misplaced or just left laying around for weeks or months at a time. I finally got mine back after calling OIM in Lima about 5 times and then going to the office on campus and sitting there until they gave it to me. They do this to everyone. It is ridiculous.

moonraven · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 3094

It sure is ridiculous, all right. Not only that, but it is not legal for you to be running round in the country without your passport on your person or in your handbag!

All immigration offices that I have dealt with use a copy of the passport. For precisely the reason mentioned above.

Justin Trullinger · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:05 pm Post subject:

Not sure about Peru- In Ecuador, my extension of visa proceedings, etc, have always required the original passport to be turned in. Usually for one or two days. Not weeks. Not months...

If you have local identification (here it's a "Censo" for short term legal foreign residents, and a "cedula" for locals and long term foreigners) then being passportless is no problem...

But it sounds like, more than the legal system, this is a problem with your university. Take it up with them. Let them know it is NOT acceptable, and that it will cost them, in terms of teachers, etc...

And good luck.

Justin

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

I got mine back last week. It acutally arrived in late July, bit the woman who was supposed to give it to me was on vac. . .