Marrying a Mexican Citizen

BajaGringo · #24 (**permalink**) 4th July 2009, 11:03 PM

[quote=maesonna;158069]I'd be interested to know the basis for this advice, as it hasn’t been my experience that the trámites have been any more complicated with a foreign marriage. All we had to do was to get a constancia de matrimonio when moved to Mexico which basically consists of a certificate showing that your foreign marriage has been entered into the Mexican Registro Civil, and then any time you’re asked for a marriage certificate (acta de matrimonio), you produce the constancia and it counts because the marriage has been registered in Mexico.

I believe what Shari was referring to is that although there is a bit more paperwork and legwork involved in marrying a Mexican national in Mexico than say in the USA, it will make things easier later. I am going through the citizenship route via marriage myself right now. We were married in California and it was a bit of a pain what we had to go through to get the marriage registered in Mexico. Made me wish we had just gotten married here in the first place now...