Family and Marriage Visas for Peru
Updated 10 August 2016***Be sure you ask at immigrations about your visa as rules and fees seem to change often. You now need an appointment in order to go to immigration. Make the "derecho de tramite" payment in order to schedule your appointment right away.***
According to Peruvian law, you CAN earn money while on this visa. You can find information about this visa at Migraciones. Its called "llamado de familia". Peru is a wonderful country with so many sites to see! Living here is quite the experience. Being married to someone from a different culture can be challenging, but all marriages are hard work!
You can get this visa if you are . . .
- An underaged child of a Peruvian citizen (if the child isnt Peruvian) or immigrant
- Married to a Peruvian or immigrant
- A parent of a Peruvian child (whether they are a minor or of age) or immigrant
- A parent of a Peruvian child and the child has special needs
- A sibling of a Peruvian citizen or immigrant
- In-laws of a Peruvian citizen or immigrant
- An adult child of a Peruvian citizen or immigrant
Since this is a family visa, someone in your family can sponsor you. Who they consider family might vary from immigration officer to immigration officer and you might need to get a lawyer to help you with complicated cases.
Family might be your children, your siblings, your parents, or your in-laws. The issue is that they should be able to support you. Since children born in Peru can get citizenship via jus soli (meaning that anyone born on Peruvian soil can become Peruvians, children might be able to sponsor their parents. However, this doesnt mean that your infant can sponsor you. In most cases, the person must be financially stable (an example of an exception would be a child with special needs). If your child is a minor who earns money, for example, an actor than that would be a different story. Likewise if your child was of age and had a job. When in doubt, contact a lawyer or migraciones.
Getting Married in Peru
If youre not married yet, but are planning on getting married in Peru, you can find the steps here in the Marriage Section. The information below is for those who are married. For all other cases, you will have to do the same things, except instead of a marriage license, youll have to show birth certificates to prove they you are related. Check with immigrations for a complete list of what you need. Either call them or go in person. Make sure to documents apostillised and translated if necessary.
Check here for personal stories about getting marriage visas. For those of you married to a Peruvian, you can get a resident visa that allows you to work in Peru. If youre not married yet, but are planning on getting married in Peru, you can find the steps here in the Marriage Section. It takes about two months to get.
You no longer have to leave the country to pick up a residence visa. All the paperwork can now be done in Lima. You will also get a carne de extranjeria (foreign resident card / CE) which is proof of residency. You have to renew it yearly and pay the yearly foreigners tax. After three years of residency, you can become a Peruvian citizen. There are two ways to get the visa, depending on where you got married.
Name Change
If you change your name and get a new passport, you MUST transfer your visa from your old passport to your new passport.
For bank accounts, you just go to the bank with your bank card and DNI. Same goes for your pension plan. For property youll have to go to SUNARP and bring a letter explaining the change as well as notarised copies of your documents.
You have to show your old name and new name. You could bring your old and new CE, or your old CE and your new DNI and Naturalisation paper. Youll also have to fill out a form. Youll also need your original partida de matrimonio (marriage license) and a notarised copy of your spouses DNI.
Depending on Where You Got Married
If you got married outside of Peru, youve got a couple of steps to take. You will have to register it in the country where you got married (probably at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and then go to the Peruvian consulate / embassy and register it with them. They will then give you a Peruvian marriage certificate. Do this quickly as possible because there may be a time limit. If possible, get a couple marriage certificates. You will need a new marriage certificate every year in order to renew residency.
Ask them if your marriage will be registered with RENIEC. If it will not be registered with RENIEC, then you will also have to do that when you get here. When you come to Peru, you have between 30 and 90 days to register your marriage depening on the person you talk to. It will have to be apostillised; see Peru and the Hague Agreement for more info. It will also have to be translated by a certified translator, if not in Spanish (see Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (RREE) and do a search for traductores oficiales). Then go to RENIEC and register your marriage if it hasnt already been registered. Then you have to do everything above that people who got married in Peru have to do. For letters, go to Letters for Immigrations.
OR
1. If you got married in Peru, you need either your Partida de Matrimonio or your Acta de Matrimonio, which must be legalized by RENIEC. In order to legalise your document, first you need to go to the Banco de la Nacion and pay 17 soles.
Then You Must Have
These documents can be gotten from Migraciones or printed off their website.
- Form F007.
- Form F004 (to change the status of your visa. If you have a tourist visa, mark the first box. If you have a different visa, youll have to fill out the blanks at the top.
- Pay the fees for the forms (the code for the F004 is 01814) and the annual foreigner�s tax at the Banco de la Nacion.
- Copy of your passport
- Copy of your visa or entry stamp into Peru
- Original TAM (Tarjeta Andina de Migraciones). This is the little white paper you get when you enter Peru.
- Original passport
- They will have to sign a document in the presence of a public notary saying that they will financially support you while you are in Peru. (see Letters for Immigrations.)
- Photocopy of their DNI with casado/a status. They MUST change their civil status so that it says that they are married.
- Make copies of everything so that they can stamp your copies. Leave the originals at the Mesa de Partes at Immigrations come back when they tell you to. They will probably tell you to call or email them in 15 days to check the status of your CE.
- While youre waiting, go to INTERPOL Steps can be found here.
- In theory, you no longer have to leave the country to pick up a residence visa. All the paperwork can now be done in Lima.
- Pick up your visa, bring copies of your passport and 2 passport photos. Call ahead and ask how much the visa will be. Youll also need a carne sized photo when you pick up the visa.
- Then, follow the steps to get your carne de extranjeria.
