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Originally Posted by BajaGringo
Have you registered your marriage with immigration/minister of foreign relations yet? I can't speak for what you may have gone through but here in Baja it required several steps including having our certified marriage certificate and a certified copy of my birth certificate get an apostille stamp in San Diego, official translations of both documents along with my passport and then a trip to Mexicali for another document thta stated I had never been married before in Mexico. It would basically have been much of the same process to just get married in Mexico but then I wouldn't have lost the time accumulated as I did for the two years needed. They do give you a 6 month window but past that the clock goes back to zero. What made it really hard for me is that when we got married I had the time to do all the legwork and now I don't which is why I just hired an attorney here experienced in the process...
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My oldest child was born in Mexico. The hospital issued a birth certificate without a fuss. The US Consulate in Guadalajara issued a State Department birth certificate on the spot for a nominal fee within 30 minutes. Then due to a pregnancy complication the doctor who delivered our first suggested that we go to the USA four months prior to the expected arrival date. He suggested the New Mexico State University hospital. Our second came CZ. New Mexico issued a birth certificate that was totally bilingual - English/Español. Each and every line on the certificate in English was repeated in Español. The Mexcian authorities would not except it insisted that we had it translated. A very costly song n dance act. They had us going from office to office, paying mordida <sp> brides and receiving no receipts. We spent 3-4 days running all over Guadalajara and dropped a couple hundred dollars as we went. Finally the approval to except and translate the bilingual certificate was granted. Mexican male friends of mind with wives from any other country have had little if any trouble which makes me think that we gueros (white boys) are not treated with an even hand.
Despite the governmental road blocks I continue to love México and the vast majority of it's people less of course the National Bureaucrats.
Tom aka Chema