Hi all!
My partner and I are trying to get married. But our situation is a little but different.
I am Australian, he is Brazilian. We have lived together here for almost 2 years. I already have all brazilian equivilent of documents here in Brazil (RNE, CPF, Habilitacao, Credit cards, Proof of address, life/health insurance etc) So this is not the problem. My problem is that to get married I need my birth certificate (claro!) and I also have to have my change of name certificate from when I was 5 years old and my mum re-married....and well, heres my process at the moment.
I have already had my birth certificate and change of name certificate translated by an official translator, signatures witnessed and all cartorio stamped. Bam. Now.... I need to get an official stamp from the brazilian embassy (in my country?!?!) and registered at CRED.
It seems that everywhere we go there are 50 bazillion different processes that we need to do. Okay, so with this in mind, I went to CRED yesterday and they told me that it would be R$450 PER DOCUMENT to register is here in Rio to be used for the wedding... surely this cannot be accurate! Please I would love anyones advice if you have had to go through the same thing!