notarized passport

[hieumin 2]

REGARDS HCMC FILING

I am in a process of applying for a marriage license in HCMC and here are the questions

1. the website on the vietnam embassy outdated, do you need to notary passport and authenticate by your state before sending to vietnam embassy?

2. mental health check no longer applicable because SO TU PHAP doesn't trust the STATES or BIO form didn't need also

3. the fee now $100 (site stated $50)

[Haonie 0]

REGARDS HCMC FILING

I am in a process of applying for a marriage license in HCMC and here are the questions

1. the website on the vietnam embassy outdated, do you need to notary passport and authenticate by your state before sending to vietnam embassy?

2. mental health check no longer applicable because SO TU PHAP doesn't trust the STATES or BIO form didn't need also

3. the fee now $100 (site stated $50)

Here you go: http://viet.vietnamembassy.us/pdf/6.1%20Ho...ai-Viet-nam.pdf

Follow those instructions, you will be fine.

1. You don’t need notarized your Passport

2. Mental health is always requiring unless VN Embassy changed, it did not require blood test anymore. When you see a Doctor, make sure present Mental health form to him, let him fill-out and he needs notarized his signature before hand back to you.

3. Fee: Due to the fees change, you have to call Vietnamese Embassy and ask for “Hop Phap Hoa Ho So Dang Ky Ket Hon”.

Remember every single form, it must notarized, otherwise, it will return back to you. When you’re done with those forms, take it to your local County Clerk, and ask for notarized. After you finish with your County Clerk, take another trip to your State Capital ask for Secretary’s State notarized. And then send them to Vietnamese Embassy for “Hop Phap Hoa”. The process is about 4 weeks unless you want expedite (extra money is required).

Haonie

[cavoi xanh1 0]

REGARDS HCMC FILING

I am in a process of applying for a marriage license in HCMC and here are the questions

1. the website on the vietnam embassy outdated, do you need to notary passport and authenticate by your state before sending to vietnam embassy?

2. mental health check no longer applicable because SO TU PHAP doesn't trust the STATES or BIO form didn't need also

3. the fee now $100 (site stated $50)

Here you go: http://viet.vietnamembassy.us/pdf/6.1%20Ho...ai-Viet-nam.pdf

Follow those instructions, you will be fine.

1. You don’t need notarized your Passport

2. Mental health is always requiring unless VN Embassy changed, it did not require blood test anymore. When you see a Doctor, make sure present Mental health form to him, let him fill-out and he needs notarized his signature before hand back to you.

3. Fee: Due to the fees change, you have to call Vietnamese Embassy and ask for “Hop Phap Hoa Ho So Dang Ky Ket Hon”.

Remember every single form, it must notarized, otherwise, it will return back to you. When you’re done with those forms, take it to your local County Clerk, and ask for notarized. After you finish with your County Clerk, take another trip to your State Capital ask for Secretary’s State notarized. And then send them to Vietnamese Embassy for “Hop Phap Hoa”. The process is about 4 weeks unless you want expedite (extra money is required).

Haonie

I just did this is September 2008.

1. Officially, passports need to be notorized by the State Department since this is the only seal that the VN embassy can verify. Although, I was able to by-pass this since I paid $300 and had a service do all the paperwork for $300.

2. Mental Health is required. But for me, I paid a doctor to sign off on the off in the U.S. but when we went for our interview in HCMC it was rejected and we had to redo the mental health assesment in HCMC .

3. What fee are you talking about? This form should be submitted by your spouse in VN if I remember correctly. The only costs should be for notorizing by the VN embassy in the US. The paperworks should be performed here, stamped, and sent to VN for your spouse to submit on your behalf.

[hieumin 2]

Cavoi_xanh,

Because you hired a service so you don't khow the VN Embassy fee, If you do it by yourself, all the documents (after sealed by your STATE)and send to VN embassy for verification cost $100.

Mental Health is required but rejected by vietnam so why we pay to doctor for nothing AND had to redo in vietnam

[Haonie 0]

Cavoi_xanh,

Because you hired a service so you don't khow the VN Embassy fee, If you do it by yourself, all the documents (after sealed by your STATE)and send to VN embassy for verification cost $100.

Mental Health is required but rejected by vietnam so why we pay to doctor for nothing AND had to redo in vietnam

I'm not sure why So Tu Phap denied the "PRE-MARITAL EXAMINATION OF MENTAL HEALTH" since it has been legalization/certification by VN Embassy. It weird.

[hieumin 2]

this is not unusual in VN which we sometimes called "LUAT VUA THUA LE LANG". Every branch of government has their own rules and regulations that is NOT controlled by higher state level