**Be sure you ask at Immigrations about your visa as rules and fees seem to change often. ***

Dual citizenship isn't recognised by all countries. For example, if you're Dutch and want to get Peruvian citizenship, you have to give up your Dutch citizenship. Other places, like the US do acknowledge and allow dual citizenship. You can choose to have dual citizenship, or give up your US citizenship if you should choose to do so, but it's not necessary. For more info about US law check RickW and the State Department's Website.

Naturalisation Due to Marriage
After being here on a resident visa for two years due to marriage you can become Peruvian. You need the following.
4 passport size photos.
Your original and a notarised copy of your carne de extranjeria that shows two years residency.
An original copy of your spouse's birth certificate.
A simple copy of your spouse's DNI showing casada status.
A letter to the Director of Immigration asking for your application to be considered. You can find one at DIGIMEN or in Section 8.
A statutory declaration that you are healthy and have no criminal convictions. You can find one at DIGIMEN or in Section 8.
Form F006.
Fee for Form F006, 40 soles.
Your original Peruvian marriage certificate showing 2 years of marriage.

Go to the Naturalisation Office on the third floor of Immigrations. It opens at 8:15am and closes at 1pm. The normal processing time is 15 working days. The register is two parts: one part stays in the register and the other part is given to you as your titulo of citizenship. When you sign the register you have to pay 35 soles and hand in your carne. With the titulo you can get a DNI and a passport.

FYI: You need notarized copies of your titulo to get a DNI, a Peruvian passport and also for many other tramites. By filling in a form F002, paying 14 soles and giving them 5 copies of the titulo, they will notarize the 5 copies.

Overage sons/daughters of Peruvians who have NOT been registered as Peruvians by their parents.
1. Pay 50 dollars for permission to sign contracts. Letters to immigrations can be found in Section 8.

2. Get hired by a company or you talk to one of your friends who has company with a registered RUC, and sign the contract

3. Pay 11 soles at the Banco de la Nacion (ingresar contratos) take it to the Ministerio del Trabajo en Av. El Aire in San Borja, present at Mesa de Partes at the Ministerio your birth certificate, your Peruvian parents birth certificate or DNI to prove that you are related to a Peruvian, and the contract signed, they review it and give you the necessary stamp.

4. Once this is done go to Migraciones and show this to the immigration officer, he will ask you how you got the contract approved, obviously you show him the proof, you are the son or daughter of a Peruvian...you have to return in 10 days to see whether the visa is ready for pick up at any consulate outside Peru, I would go ahead and do the INTERPOL check about this time so it can be ready once you are a resident.

5. Follow the steps for getting your carne.

6. Once you get the carnet de extranjeria you gather all the requirements for the nationalisation process, it´s on digemin website, you hand it all in and within a month you trade the carnet for a titulo de peruano nacido en el extranjero, this allows you to get your DNI.

Other residents applying for nationality
Other foreigners with resident status are also eligible. See DIGEMIN for more information. You will have to take a language, history and culture test as well as fulfill the requirements.

Requirements for Inmigrante Status
1) Two years with Carné de Extranjería,
2) All taxes paid in that period of time (Certificados de la Renta etc),
3) Not having left Peru for more than 6 consecutive months during those two years.
4) Present your first and most recent paystubs .
5) The whole Interpol thing.

After two full years with your Carné de Extranjería as 'Trabajadora' you can apply for 'Inmigrante' status, which -has no expiry date. The benefit is that you only have to pay for the Tasa Anual (and not the Prorroga) and also that you can work and look for work as though you were Peruvian.

Formulario F 4, mark 'Cambio de calidad migratoria de PEB/Trabajador, etc a Inmigrante
Pay S/. 27
Pay $300 if not married to a Peruvian
Make sure your Tasa Anual and Prorroga are in paid
Copy Passport
Copy CE
Copy spouse's DNI (if married)
Carta Garantia. Letters to immigrations can be found in Section 8.
Copy marriage certificate (if married)

It supposedly takes one month to proceed. You must make sure that the passport, CE ( Tasa and Prorroga ) are still valid after this month. They give you a new CE . Being married to a Peruvian exempts you from paying a US$300 fee.

Sharon de Hinojosa (naturegirl321) has lived and worked (mainly teaching English) in the US, Scotland, Spain, the Czech Republic, China, Korea, and Peru. As well as teaching short-term in Venezuela and Taiwan.

She has created The LA Job List http://www.thelajoblist.blogspot.com which lists schools, institutes and universities in 19 Latin American countries which offer English teaching positions.

Since living in Peru since August 2006, she wrote The Ultimate Peru List http://www.theultimateperulist.blogspot.com With 60 pages it's a comprehensive guide for those living in or moving to Peru.