Dying in Mexico
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Sep-12-2022 12:48 PM
In years past we were always told that in a decent sized caravan to Mexico, there would be at least one death. Tequila, what do you say??
We have recently found out that in order to have a spouses remains released to you in Mexico, you need to have a marriage license/certificate on hand. Not only that, it needs to be an apostille copy. These take a bit of work to get, and are issued through the Secretary of State in the state where you were married, in most cases.
We decided that since we have to get apostille birth certificates and marriage certificate to apply for citizenship, it made sense to have a second apostille marriage certificate for when one of us passes.
If nothing else, it will make a difficult time a bit less stressful.
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Sep-17-2022 08:36 AM
Lwiddis wrote:
Is OP saying a certified copy of a death certificate or birth certificate issued by a California county will not be honored by Mexico? The only birth certificates issued by the State of California are for adopted children. Otherwise the counties issue these documents.
Again, it depends upon what you are trying to do. I don't see why anyone would need a death certificate from the US here. Birth certificates are issued, in most cases, by counties, but only the state does the apostille. Here in Mexico they want things apostilled. For residency purposes, if you do your application in the US, they will take a birth certificate that is not apostilled. If, however, you do it here in Mexico, it must be apostilled.
In our cases, the birth certificates that we used to get our passports with 50 years ago were considered to be too old by California and Oregon, so we had to get more current birth certificates from the counties then send them to the state.
We are fortunate that we have the time for this. We have found how easy it is to get a US notarization on line and free on line FAX services too.
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Sep-16-2022 09:50 PM
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Sep-14-2022 06:38 PM
So glad that things worked out the way they were "supposed" to happen. May they continue.
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Sep-14-2022 04:29 PM
I believe authorities are sympathetic to foreigners and Mexico has or had good relations with the U.S.
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Sep-13-2022 07:51 PM
Now? Cremation and into the ocean! At least with our apostille marriage certificate, if we don't go together in a firey crash, the other can take care of things.
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Sep-13-2022 07:32 PM
And no, I'm only partly joking. It's silly to pay $5-10k to ship a body back. If it's cheap, I might do cremation and return the ashes in a carry on.
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Sep-12-2022 04:57 PM
The translation was even quicker and cost 1700 pesos from a licensed and registered translator.