Comments on: Getting Married in Panama

By: glasnost

glasnost — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:45:17 +0000

Well Done! I Like it!

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:03:46 +0000

Great place. Look I love latin america and I was told Panama is the new place to go. I am wanting to marry my fiance there. She is Russian and i am American. Can I own property there? Maybe will get married in Costa Rica though but I would like to do biz there and buy property and yes we could help ythe locals with some good work.
any advice will be apprieciated.
Rich

By: prittyrickey

prittyrickey — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:30:21 +0000

Im planning on marrying a chola for residency papers……thanks for all the info….

By: M Dub

M Dub — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:23:19 +0000

Then get thyself to Panama, tejano.

By: tejano

tejano — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:17:37 +0000

a simple chola with a scary sex drive you say? I want one.

By: M Dub

M Dub — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:52:24 +0000

I found the article along with some other searches pretty helpful. It help set me in the right direction. And my wife did come from dire poverty. I remember telling her about this site and how I figured out all the stuff I needed to get married down there. We were sitting around and I told her about the Cholita with dirty feet comment. She thought it was funny because we had just been to the beach and my Cholita did have dirty feet.

By: cojito

cojito — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:11:33 +0000

Jeni,

there was no Google search. there are no “lies” contained in this article. i live in Panama City. i talked to several government officials, and a Panamanian lawyer, before i wrote this article. i even visited the Juzgado de Turno en Matrimonios, and referenced the paperwork they gave me.

now you may argue that these Panamanian officials don’t know what THEY are talking about. and you may be right about that. the educational system in Panama is deplorable. but you can’t blame me for the stupidity or ignorance of some Panamanians.

i ask questions. they answer. i write about it. voila!

you sound rather smug Jeni. and it’s really sweet you have an MBA, wealthy parents, awards, an American job and husband. you are lucky. good for you. but try and remember the majority of Panamanians live in dire poverty. the majority don’t get MBA’s or even go to college. they work shit jobs for shit money and then get robbed on their way home from work. and they are the lucky ones, the ones with actual jobs.

for some Panamanians, marriage to a gringo is a viable way out. so why not make it easy for the poor to marry outsiders? things are NOT the same wherever you go Jeni. there are indeed places you can go to marry with a minimum of paperwork and hassle. places that are not ruled by smug rabiblancos.

look into it. do a Google search.

By: M Dub

M Dub — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:11:42 +0000

You don’t need to send your documents to the consular office. Just take them to the Secretary of State’s office where they were issued and get an Apostille seal, certifying the document is legit. You will have to get all of your documents translated by a government approved translator. There are a variety of them that can do this. I used hablayapanama.com. Also, your Panamanian spouse will need his/her cedula, birth certificate and certificado de solteria. The certificado de solteria takes about 15 days for them to get and is only good for a month since the date of its issuance. It sounds like a big deal, but is nothing compared to the K-3 Visa process.