Now I Want To Get Married And They Wont Let Me

[jeff1234]

Some of you may remember that awhile back I posted that I was finally ready to marry my Argie sweetheart.

Since then I've been mired in Argie bureaucracy and am starting to think that a Las Vegas wedding makes more sense.

We spent the last month getting a copy of my divorce documents from New Jersey (even though this makes no sense to me). The Marriage Registry trusts me when I say that I am not married today, so why don't they trust me when I say that a previous marriage ended in divorce?

We finally got the documents this week and took them to the translator. Today the Marriage Registry told us that I need to have the American Consulate certify that these divorce papers are valid. I can't imagine how they can do this but I wrote to them anyway.

Maybe the Consulate can go back in a time machine and photograph me standing in the courtroom while my wife's attorneys cleaned me out?


Has anyone else been through this?
Should I give up and go to Vegas?

 

[Gringoboy]

We went through similar, but I'll spare you most of the gory details.
My ex and I were married in England and divorced in Spain.
Argentina insists on some sort of recognition from the registry in England that I was divorced.
Since it wasn't a requirement for the Spanish lawyer to ratify it in England, such a document doesn't exist.
I often get the impression that tramites here are rubber stamping jobs on bits of paper that no one will ever look at again.

Actually, I have to confess that we are considering just doing it and telling them we're single anyway.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

When I got married in Olavarría, the Registro Civil people wondered whether I understood the language well enough to know what I was getting into. I did even then, but I have a better idea now.

 

[Splitty]

Moral of the story. Play dumb and say you were never married. Don't make more bureaucracy than needed

 

[sleslie23]

I did even then, but I have a better idea now.

The language? Or what you were getting into?

 

[jeff1234]

Moral of the story. Play dumb and say you were never married. Don't make more bureaucracy than needed

Thats what I thought. My sweetie, who's been dealing with Argie bureaucracy for a long time, says thats asking for trouble since my immigration documents say that I'm divorced.

 

[ghost]

They want the apostile on the doc before it's translated.

 

[cmmiori]

Maybe "argie bureaucracy" is fate's way of telling you not to get married...

 

[ajoknoblauch]

The language? Or what you were getting into?

Both and, despite occasional glitches, I don't regret either of them.

 

[jeff1234]

They want the apostile on the doc before it's translated.

I learned something new today, never heard of an apostille or the apostille convention.
Thanks.