Re: British Citizen marrying non-eu citizen (Marriage Proces

I think generally these two options are correct. There is a third one: if you marry in Spain and stay there for 6 months, you are then covered by the European right of free movement. This means you can apply for a visa to the UK free of cost, and the visa has to be granted.

If you do not stay in Spain for a while, you will have to apply for a regular spousal visa. This is quite expensive nowadays (600 GBP?), but it also has a faster path to citizenship, if that is the ultimate goal.

Tom

 

Hi.
I'm engage with a british lady and i am from Venezuela with Spanish residence, now we are in the same as you and i think we can help each other here, Spain is one of the most difficult places in the world to do anything you will need hours of waiting, numbers, appointments, papers, stamps and signatures, also all depends where in spain you are planning to get marry, i am in Pamplona, here you need:
Open a folder in the registro civil, there you both need to bring birth certificate and pass through HAYA, british can get an international birth certificate valid as HAYA, if you dont have that one then you will need the HAYA thing.
Both will need to prove you are not marry at the moment, that is a letter from civil register in your country saying you are not HAYA stamped too or a divorce final decree.
In spain you need either of you to be EMPADRONADO in that town.
All english documemts need to be translate in spain with a legal translator.

I think i'm forgetting something but i will look and post later... Anyway all this HAS to be well timed coz you have 3 month from the first paper you get to introduce EVERYTHING at the same time, then they will check all that and give you a paper, with that paper then you can look for a place to do the wedding.

Now... I got marry 1999 in london, i don't remember well but i'm almost sure i didnt need to show any of this paperwork there, i'm waiting to find out what crazy paperwork UK is asking from the couples to get married, one good thing for me is that i'm waiting for me final decree on my divorce and if there is less papers needed in UK we gonna do it there coz both of our families life there...

Let me know if i can help you with anything else, and if you could find out what they ask in the UK in order to do the wedding there would be great...


Oh!, one more thing, might help for the uk visa to have already all paperwork and place booked and all needed for the wedding, so organize the whole thing first then apply for the visa, this is my oppinion...