Question about marriage in dr!

dsn1975 · #1 06-07-2007, 03:34 AM

I am an English man living in England who married a girl from the dominican in san pedro de macoris and I need our original marriage certificate. can you please inform me of how i get this and what the address is for the office of where we were married?

GringoCArlos · #2 06-07-2007, 09:30 AM

You can only get this from the Civil Registration office nearest the place where you got married. This office in San Pedro is probably in the municipal building that is along the main drag through town, at the corner just across from the baseball stadium. (no, this isn't England and there is no bloody address, the motoconchistos just know where the friggin office is, OK?)

Best way to do it - send your dominicana, with $500 in small bills. She will ask a motoconchista, who will then take her to wherever this office is, where she will then ask for the Acta de Matrimonio, wait another 3 hours while somebody types one out, (remembering that there will be a stack of others waiting to be typed ahead of yours) copying it out of the big book where the original is. Then the motoconchisto will bring her back to wherever he picked her up.

You can either sit in a colmado in San Pedro drinking beer, or wait in England. Whatever you do, don't go with her. She will think the process is entirely normal, and you will go stark raving BONNNKKERs. Trust me.

If you need this Acta de Matrimonio for any official paperwork, like getting a visa, a mortgage, residency, etc then this document will have also to be "legalized" in Santo Domingo. (basically yet another part of the government certifies that yes, this document is true and correct, for which you must pay a couple of hundred pesos for the confirmation.)

The best way to get this Acta legalized is to give your dominicana in San Pedro about RD$1300 in small bills, (figuring $20 for a moto to the bus station in San Pedro, $100 for the guagua to Santo Domingo, $20 for an orange juice at Parque Enriquillo, $130 for a taxi to Winston Churchill area , $200 for the legalization process, $40 for an orange juice and an empanada, $130 for a taxi back to Parque Enriquillo, $200 for a sexy new blouse, $300 for some new shoes, $20 for an orange juice, $100 for the guagua back to San Pedro, and $20 for a moto home, and $20 in change - can she keep it for tomorrow?) where she will then take a taxi to the huacal (government office) near Winston Churchill and behind the Loteria Nacional building, and first stand in a line and then wait for another 2 hours while this document is "legalized". Then she can return home (see above).

Best of luck. (and if your dominicana is already there with you in England, then the above process applies to your sister-in-law, but add another $200 to each step for her "work" in getting all of this work done for you, the gringo)

Eddy · #3 06-07-2007, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by GringoCArlos

You can only get this from the Civil Registration office nearest the place where you got married. This office in San Pedro is probably in the municipal building that is along the main drag through town, at the corner just across from the baseball stadium. (no, this isn't England and there is no bloody address, the motoconchistos just know where the friggin office is, OK?)

Best way to do it - send your dominicana, with $500 in small bills. She will ask a motoconchista, who will then take her to wherever this office is, where she will then ask for the Acta de Matrimonio, wait another 3 hours while somebody types one out, (remembering that there will be a stack of others waiting to be typed ahead of yours) copying it out of the big book where the original is. Then the motoconchisto will bring her back to wherever he picked her up.

You can either sit in a colmado in San Pedro drinking beer, or wait in England. Whatever you do, don't go with her. She will think the process is entirely normal, and you will go stark raving BONNNKKERs. Trust me.

If you need this Acta de Matrimonio for any official paperwork, like getting a visa, a mortgage, residency, etc then this document will have also to be "legalized" in Santo Domingo. (basically yet another part of the government certifies that yes, this document is true and correct, for which you must pay a couple of hundred pesos for the confirmation.)

The best way to get this Acta legalized is to give your dominicana in San Pedro about RD$1300 in small bills, (figuring $20 for a moto to the bus station in San Pedro, $100 for the guagua to Santo Domingo, $20 for an orange juice at Parque Enriquillo, $130 for a taxi to Winston Churchill area , $200 for the legalization process, $40 for an orange juice and an empanada, $130 for a taxi back to Parque Enriquillo, $200 for a sexy new blouse, $300 for some new shoes, $20 for an orange juice, $100 for the guagua back to San Pedro, and $20 for a moto home, and $20 in change - can she keep it for tomorrow?) where she will then take a taxi to the huacal (government office) near Winston Churchill and behind the Loteria Nacional building, and first stand in a line and then wait for another 2 hours while this document is "legalized". Then she can return home (see above).

Best of luck. (and if your dominicana is already there with you in England, then the above process applies to your sister-in-law, but add another $200 to each step for her "work" in getting all of this work done for you, the gringo)

LOL - Funny but how true it is.

Matilda · #4 06-07-2007, 11:32 AM

Just remember to get the ' in extensa' certificate and not the basic one, as for most things in the UK they only accept the in extensa version

Hillbilly · #5 06-07-2007, 12:50 PM

Where are the Grammar Police when you need them???????????

This bloke has committed a Capitol Offense!

It is the Dominican Republic, you $%^&--whatever that means....

And that was a truly funny but accurate post!! Congratulations--but as the Resident Curmudgeon, I must correct your directions.. The Huacal is located next to the Police headquarters, on Leopoldo Navarro and Paris (one short block south of 27 de Febrero. However, this is a sterile observation since ALL motoconchistas know where the Huacal is.....moot point....

HB

laurapasinifan · #6 06-07-2007, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Hillbilly

Where are the Grammar Police when you need them???????????

This bloke has committed a Capitol Offense!

It is the Dominican Republic, you $%^&--whatever that means....

HB

its all good Hillbilly.....his grammmar is perfect she IS FROM THE DOMINICAN..... her father

he is DOMINICAN.....and thats where she came from ....the domincan

carry on

bob