Is Marriage Performed In The US To A Mexican National Considered Valid In Mexico?

[flybeech]

Originally Posted by RVGRINGO

Mexico will require that your translation be performed by a government authorized and licensed translater, I think they're called peritos. No other translation will be accepted, so save your money and have the translation done when you get here.

Grax, RVGRINGO. Advise easily and well taken. She's an executive in Aduana and certainly can find a translator. The next time she comes to the US, we'll get married and take my apostilled birth certificate and our marriage license to Merida and get it completed there.

[RVGRINGO]

Any government requirement for a translation will require the use of a 'perito'. Granted, some of them don't translate all that well, but they are 'official'. Our only need for translations were on our very first applications for visas from INM. Since then, none have been required on renewals. This requirement can vary by location; perhaps depending upon the level of education of the agents involved and their own abilities with other languages. Nothing in Mexico is ever the same from place to place, time to time or person to person.

[atlgdl]

Hi, I have just printed the requirements from the INM website. Regarding the documents required, it says that I must submit the marriage certificate. It doesn't get into specifics about what type of certificate is acceptable. I have a US marriage license that is apostiled.

I have read references here in this thread to registering the out of country marriage with the "registro" run by the state authorities here in Jalisco. Is this step absolutely necessary or will Immigration accept the apostiled certificate without the state registration step?

[DNP]

Originally Posted by atlgdl

Hi, I have just printed the requirements from the INM website. Regarding the documents required, it says that I must submit the marriage certificate. It doesn't get into specifics about what type of certificate is acceptable. I have a US marriage license that is apostiled.

I have read references here in this thread to registering the out of country marriage with the "registro" run by the state authorities here in Jalisco. Is this step absolutely necessary or will Immigration accept the apostiled certificate without the state registration step?

A marriage license us not a marriage certificate. You will need the marriage certificate.

[atlgdl]

Originally Posted by DNP

A marriage license us not a marriage certificate. You will need the marriage certificate.

Yes, that's what I have. It's a marriage certificate.

[maesonna]

Originally Posted by atlgdl

I have read references here in this thread to registering the out of country marriage with the "registro" run by the state authorities here in Jalisco. Is this step absolutely necessary or will Immigration accept the apostilled certificate without the state registration step?

I don’t think anyone except immigration themselves can give you a definite answer on that, since different immigration offices don’t always interpret and apply rules and requirements the same way.

However another benefit of registering the marriage in the state registry is that if you later need proof of legal marriage for some other authority in Mexico, you’ll have it once and for all.