[chica_latina]

I really hope that this works out for you!

My husband and I live in the U.S. and were married in Jamaica. We ended up having to hire assistant stork to help. This is what we had to do:

* Place a request online for marriage certificates to the Jamaican office in Jamaica - wait for confirmation

* Print confirmation out and send international money order to Jamaica for our marriage certificates

* Wait for them to receive and process it. Then wait to receive it by mail.

* Once received, we sent it to Assistant Stork who took it to the Jamaican embassy in Washington D.C. Then, she took it to the Guatemalan Consulate in D.C. for authentication.

* It was then sent to us and forwarded to our agency.


Unfortunately, it did not go that smooth. Jamaica lost our first online request and money order. We then had to start over.

We finally received our marriage certificates, but they sent 7 instead of the 3 that we ordered. Then there was some mix ups between the Jamaican embasssy and Guat Consulate in D.C... That eventually worked itself out and we received our marriage certificates.

A month after we sent our finalized and authenticated marriage certificate to the agency, Jamaica found our first request and money order and processed them too (even after we told them MANY times NOT to cash the check and send it back to us).

Well, this entire process took 3 months and we ended up paying over $200, and we now have 14 marriage certificates! ... lol...