Saturday, June 30, 2018
Reader Request Registering Your Peruvian Marriage Back Home
Reader Request Registering Your Peruvian Marriage Back Home
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| From happydietitian.wordpress.com |
Now if you get married in Peru, does that mean that itll automatically show up on your records back home? No, it wont. If you get married in Peru and then go home and check if you have a marriage record, you wont. Itll still show that youre single.
So what do you do? It depends on where youre from. If youre from the US, they usually dont ask for official translations or apostillisations. Personally, I would still get my Peruvian documents notarised, apostillised, and translated. Heres a guide on how to use Peruvian documents abroad.
Update August 2014
Some counties in the US arent allowing you to record foreign marriages or divorces anymore. Contact your county clerk for more info.
In the US you cannot register a foreign marriage. Its impossible. What exactly does that mean for people who get married abroad? Its simple. In the US youre only allowed to register a marriage that takes place on US soil. If you get married abroad all you have to do is bring your foreign marriage cert and a translated copy (Doesnt have to be official. You can translate it, a friend, Google, etc) to the county clerks office. Then the record it and itll show up on your record.
What does it mean? Its just semantics. You register marriages that take place on US soil and you record marriages that take place on foreign soil. The end result is the same: youll show up as being married. If you get divorced, you follow the same procedure.
One tip to remember is that speaking Spanish will help you greatly. Youll be treated differently than if you speak English all the time, itll help you assimilate to the culture, and youll be able to communicate easier.
