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Thread: If I want to get married in China, what should I do?
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[quote=DDSTRETCH,246579]The way i did it (back in September 2005), from the UK: 1. I applied for a "Certificate of No Impediment" from my local Marriage Registry Office. This takes 40 days, as notices must be posted to allow anyone who would object (on grounds that I was already married, for example) to do so. 2. I then had to take this certificate to the The Foreign and Commonweath Office in London to attach a certificate stating that it was a correctly issued notice (this is to allow the Chinese authorities to agree that it was a valid certificate.) 3. These than had to be taken along with my passport and my visa application to the Chinese Consulate (in Manchester in my case) so that it could have another notice, this time in Chinese, attached to it, certifying as valid the previous two certificates, and also to let them note that I was going to get married in China if they wanted to in my visa. 4. No health checks were required. My fiance (now my wife) had to take along all the necessary Chinese certificates verifying that she could marry. She needed her hukou, but no signatures from her parents. We also needed a number of photos of us taken together. My passport was also needed, as well as the verious certificates I had prepared in the UK and taken along with me. 5. Because I was a foreigner, we had to travel to the provincial capital (in our case Changsha) to register the marriage. This meant us both reading out a standard statement (I was given an English version to read out) The certificates I had had prepared were examined in some detail. We had then to sign a few things and fill out a few more forms. 6. We were given two copies of the marriage certificate with joint photos attached, and both included Chinese and English translations. We were also given one small red booklet each, in Chinese, as part of the certificate, which detailed our names, date of birth and also had joint photos in them. I think the hukou was also amended. Because my wife had already been married, but had divorced and been awarded total custody of her son who also had his surname changed to hers by the court, a few other issues arose but they were concerned mainly with bringing them both back to the UK. My understanding is that by marrying her, I automatically became the father of her son, but this was at variance with UK interpretations a little, and so a bit a extra red-tape on top of the horrendous existing red-tape had to be engaged in to get them entry into the UK.[/quote]
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