FOREIGN COUPLES:
1. Original birth certificate. Must get an apostille from your State or through a Mexican Consulate located within your country.
2. Translate the birth certificate into Spanish.
3. A medical exam taken within 15 days from the date of the marriage. This may be done in Mexico.
4. Original passport.
5. Tourist permit, FM-2, or FM-3.
6. Attend a premarital class in any DIF office in Mexico.
7. Bring two witnesses to the wedding ceremony at the Oficina del Registro Civil.
8. In case you are divorced or widowed, bring the original divorce decree or certificate of death translated into Spanish and apostilled. For the Mexican, the divorce decree or death decree cannot be older than one (1) year.
ONE FOREIGN, ONE MEXICAN COUPLE:
1. Original birth certificate. Must get an apostille from your State or through a Mexican Consulate located within your country. For the Mexican, the original birth certificate must not be older than one (1) year.
2. Translate the birth certificate into Spanish.
3. A medical exam taken within 15 days from the date of the marriage. This may be done in Mexico. In case the bride is Mexican, bring her health card.
4. Original passport of foreigner; and, either the IFE, Mexican passport, or driver's license of the Mexican.
5. Tourist permit, FM-2, or FM-3.
6. Attend a premarital class in any DIF office in Mexico.
7. Bring two witnesses to the wedding ceremony at the Oficina del Registro Civil.
8. In case you are divorced or widowed, bring the original divorce decree or certificate of death translated into Spanish and apostilled. For the Mexican, the divorce decree or death decree cannot be older than one (1) year.
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