I need some help for a friend. He have been to Chimbote Peru several times over the last 2 years to visit his girlfriend. On the last trip he ask her to married him and she said yes. His now fiance want the wedding to be held in Chimbote. He did some research on the web and from the information he found, there is lots of "red tape" they must go through.The information did not tell him what kinds of papers he would need. The information said to check with the local government in her city because each city in Peru had different laws about marriage to a American. I told him I was ask on this forum if anyone has married in Peru and how hard was it to get married there.

does he want to live in peru?

because if not and they marry in peru, then they have to file a k3 visa for her to come to the us. expect that to take around a year before she can come to the US to be with him.

otherwise, file a k1 fiancee visa and have a "religious" ceremony in peru and then have the "civil" ceremony in the US. this will fulfill her need for a wedding in peru and the legal requirements so that they can be together in the US.

Hi Gtigiant,

They are planning on living here in America after she receive her visa. How difficult is it to have a "religious" ceremony in Peru? My friend talked to his future wife this morning and she is going to inquire about the paperwork than will need for the marriage. We search the Peru Embassy and USA Embassy in Peru web site this morning and could not find anything about marriage in Peru. Thanks for the advice.

that would the be the 'civil" marriage she is looking at. just have the ceremony and understand that it is not LEGAL. you have the "civil" or LEGAL marriage in the USA after she recieves the visa. I hope that helps.

only a ceremony in peru handled by the church, she would have to negotiate with the church to do this without having the civil ceremony already completed first in peru. there, they have the civil (LEGAL) ceremony done beforehand as only certain gov't officials can perform this. i hope that made sense.

We wanted to do this (civil U.S., religious Peru) but you will find that many churches there refuse to do it. This may vary by city but that was our experience. When they marry you, they want it to be legal as well. Check with the church though to find out the specifics.

We got married in Peru (both ceremonies) and as Mercuryroad said it's very difficult to have a religious ceremony without having a civil ceremony first, I visited several churches and all of them said no, so my husband had to go to Peru and we attended the classes at the church (precana??) for 1 entire week during March. I'll recommend you to check MARIA REYNA CHURCH-San Isidro, they have a beautiful chapel and the priest speaks english so you can have a bilingual ceremony we had the CIVIL ceremony right after the religious one that was the only way the allowed us to have the religious c first.
Good luck

Vi

same situation we are in

Why don't you get married in the US - civil ceremony, and go back to Peru for the religious one, alot of couples to that//////.....

Vi

not sure if you are addressing the orig poster on this, but for us, we weren't able to work out having the religious ceremony second because it was going to be so long after the civil ceremony (waiting for the advance parole and all that jazz).

it was a damned if you do, damned if you don't until we finally were able to make the arrangements to have the religious ceremony first.

I think that's the easier way. Get married in USA (whit a K-1visa) and then back to Peru for a religious o civil ceremony.

Hey
Just want to thank you for their advice to my friend. He told that they have decide to have both ceremonies in Peru. He will be flying to Chimbote next week for a couple of days to start the process. At least them getting married in Peru, Tracy, my fiancee can fly from Manila for the wedding.

One more question for your guys, my friend know both of them will have to take a HIV (aids) test before getting the green light for wedding. Does anyone know if he can take a HIV test here is USA? The reason for this, if he take this test here our company insurance will paid for it.

Again thanks for the help.

Also it is my understanding that the HIV test in Peru is not confidential. I am a big privacy rights person so it would be an issue for me personally.

Joel

[. Does anyone know if he can take a HIV test here is USA? The reason for this, if he take this test here our company insurance will paid for it.

We paid about $15 for both HIV tests very affordable right?? and when we went to the City Hall they gave us an specifical place to go for the exams. San Isidro district.

Vi

Vi

A question.... the church you were married in Iglesia Maria Reyna in San Isidro is the priest very young about in his late 20's early 30' and the courtyard area before going inside has very pretty small pieces of tile done on the floor. Also what main street was is close to

I am trying to remember a small church there and I think this may be the one as the priest spoke English..

Thanks for you help

Vi thanks for infor. I guess my friend and I was thinking the aids test would be $150 to $300 a person. That is the reason he ask about doing the test here in America but for $15 for both test is very affordable.

Actually Maria Reina's chapel is right behind the church, its located in front of Ovalo Gutierrez, is a very commercial area, there's a Chilli's, Friday's, E.Wong, you can't miss it. The priest's name was Edward (60's) a really cool priest. There are two main avenues, Conquistadores and Santa Cruz.

Vi

Thanks........ Vi

It is a lot of red-tape to get married in Peru. So why did I do it?
My wife's family could not travel to the USA. But my family could travel to Peru.

Yeah the K-1 route would be a lot less head-ache in paperwork. But we got married in Peru and then petitoned a K-3 (CR-1) and it took about 7 months for the Visa to be issued, which lately has been a lot faster than a K-1.

You should get the HIV test etc in Peru--believe me Medical expense in Peru is way way less expensive than it is here in the USA.

You need to go to the specific Municipality and request the exact procedure for marrying a Foreign national. Each municipality will do things a little different, so.

In general this is how it works.

You must submit Birth Certificates, Divorce Decrees, Death Certificates, Prior Marriage Certificates, Baptismal Records, Passports, DNI, and Passports/DNI of your two witnesses. All notorized. The foreign documents must be certified and legalized by the Peruvian Consulate here in the USA that governs the state where the American lives. Then you must translate all the documents not in Spanish to Spanish, have that translation and the notorized, certified, legalized documents taken to this office in Lima. Where it is certified again. Then when have all your documents in order you submit the packet to the Municipality. They instruct you to run a notice in a newspaper for like a month prior to the wedding date. You must also post an official notice of the wedding flyer in the municipality where you each live. You have to submit the mug shots, take a physical exam for HIV, TB, and general health. They require you to have a police background check in the municipality where you currently reside (as listed on the DNI).

Anyway compare the above to in my state, had I done a K-1 visa and got married here--my wife and I would just show a photo ID and present 25 dollars--and we would be married like that--no blood test--no extra paperwork, no translations, etc.

is there a way to get marry in Peru if we are alredy marry in USA?
We wanted a religious ceremony but He is not catholic, so what now?
what can we do?
what are the choices?

Hi,
If you were married here in the US via civil wedding, you just need the marriage certificate to prove to the church in Peru that you are legally married. The churches in Peru want to know that the couple is married already (by the civil authorities). That means the couple needs to go through the process of first getting the US marriage license (+translation) legalized by the Peruvian consulate and then secondly legalized by the Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. If you live in a city with a Peruvian consulate, this is easy. If not, call the consulate and find out when the will be doing a visit to your city (or nearby). Otherwise you usually have to have this legalization process done in person (both husband and wife must appear and the consul signs the "Registro Civil". We did this -- it took 15 minutes.

Since you don't need to have a civil wedding, you can probably forgo all of the things like the blood tests, payment of fees, medical exams, publishing the announcement in the newspaper, etc. These are actually requirements of the municipality, not the church. Of course, the church has its own requirements

If you want a religious ceremony, why not talk to a church that has a bilingual priest about the options? The one on Ovalo Gutierrez might be a good place to start...it is very pretty at any rate Perhaps if premarital courses are involved, they would accept something done by a Catholic church in the US?

Thanks for the tips I have to go through that process
to proof our marriage in the USA in the case of a religios ceremony.
BUT the thing is that my husband is not catholic so in this case i dont know what I should do, what requirements we need??
Im trying to find it out and if you know something about it let me know.
thank you one more time

veroka