JimmySeal
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- 5 Mar 2006
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Hello everyone,
My fiancée (Japanese) and I are planning to file our 婚姻届 sometime in May of this year. The finickiness of Japanese beauracracy is nothing new to me so I want to make sure we have all the documents, etc. that we need before doing the actual filing. I'm hoping that other Americans who have been through the process can help me out.
An article on this site says the following:
I'm assuming this is true for Americans, but can anyone verify that? Also how, precisely, would I go about getting my birth certificate translated by the embassy? Is it something that has to be done in person? Also where would I obtain the paper certifying I haven't been married?
Anyway, for now I would appreciate any information that I can get and I will surely be back later with more questions.
Thanks in advance.
My fiancée (Japanese) and I are planning to file our 婚姻届 sometime in May of this year. The finickiness of Japanese beauracracy is nothing new to me so I want to make sure we have all the documents, etc. that we need before doing the actual filing. I'm hoping that other Americans who have been through the process can help me out.
An article on this site says the following:
If you want to get married in Japan, think I don't mistake if I say that everybody needs a birth certificate and a paper certifying that we haven't been married before. You'll need them to be sent from your home country and translated at your embassy.
I'm assuming this is true for Americans, but can anyone verify that? Also how, precisely, would I go about getting my birth certificate translated by the embassy? Is it something that has to be done in person? Also where would I obtain the paper certifying I haven't been married?
Anyway, for now I would appreciate any information that I can get and I will surely be back later with more questions.
Thanks in advance.