More Advice on Getting Married in Peru

I recently had a comment on my article How to Get Married in Peru that I thought was worth sharing. This is one of those articles that's generated a lot of hits just because it's so frickin' complicated to get married in Peru. Actually, the marriage is just the beginning since afterwards you have to get a bunch of documents all set up to bring your bride back to wherever your from...even if it's just for a short visit, this is a pain in the ass.

Anyway, somebody commented on how things were a little bit different for British Subjects (did I write that correctly...it's not citizens is it?), and I thought I'd include it here...hope this is useful for some of you:

I was glad to find this information at the beginning of starting the process to get our wedding date, 3 months ago. For any Brits reading this its slightly different...first my husband who is Peruvian had to get his birth certificate and certificate of singledom (certificado de solterio) (s./20 each) in the district he was born in and then copies of these needed to be legalised but within three months of the date of marriage (so leave it until you have almost everything ready), he then got our apartment rental contract from our landlady and a kid in an internet cafe created a Jurada de Domicilio for each of us s./5, proving where we live, from this which we had legalised. I on the other hand had to fly to Lima with my passport and original birth certificate (which my parents brought over luckily, otherwise would have to be couriered) and go to the British Embassy to pay s./800 to have them both legalised and for a certificate of singledom to be issued after 21 days. If you are not in the UK then this can only be issued in Lima and with you there in person. The embassy couriered the documents to me here in Cusco 21 days later where there is luckily a branch of the RREE (ministerio de relaciones exteriores) who legalised it in minutes s./100. Because all the official translators are in Lima I had to courier the passport and both certificate copies to a translator who returned them for me to go back to the RREE for legalisation of the translations s./50! We then took all this to the Cusco Municipality office where the registrar checked them all and told us to go and pay s./168 in Avenida Pampo, round the corner from the Palacio de Justicia, get the receipt and then come back. We went back, were given another form to fill in with two Peruvian witnesses who both need to attend the ceremony and whose DNIs we needed to get copies of and get legalised again. We also had to have medical exams at the Municipality Medics office where they checked our teeth! We paid s./80 waited 3 hours for the results of our HIV and syphillis tests and then returned to the Municipality to pick up a slip telling us to go to the office of newspaper advertisements to place an ad for the next days paper with our details, paid s.30. We then had to go back on the Monday with the full page of the newspaper. If anyone is trying to do the same thing drop me a line and I'd be happy to help if I can!! ceegy26 at yahoo.co.uk

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