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Married In Texas, recognized in Japan?

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qyx455   0

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My wife and I are recently married, and she has some concerns regarding the validity of our US marriage in Japan. I wasn't sure what to post a question like this, so here was my best choice :/

Is our marriage in Texas going to be recognized in Japan, or do we have to do the legalities 'there' as well? Any help will be greatly appreciated!

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Julie O   5

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My wife and I are recently married, and she has some concerns regarding the validity of our US marriage in Japan. I wasn't sure what to post a question like this, so here was my best choice :/

Is our marriage in Texas going to be recognized in Japan, or do we have to do the legalities 'there' as well? Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Hi,

What kind of visa will you be applying for?? I lived in Japan for two years with my husband. In order to get a visa for me, we had to get married in California before moving to Japan. I entered Japan on a tourist visa and then went to the immigration office in Hiroshima to apply for a dependent visa. My husband had a professor visa. Our California wedding certificate was considered as valid by the immigration official. As it was in English, we didn't even have to have it translated to Japanese.

I know quite a few foreigners married to Japanese people but they all got married in Japan. I am pretty sure your marriage in Texas will be recognized in Japan.

Julie

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qyx455   0

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Hi Julie,

Thanks for your timely response :) We'll be applying for a Spousal Visa for me. I've since discovered that our marriage 'will' be recognized, but we have to register with the City Office, and a new entry on her family register has to be made to make it all official...

Hi,

What kind of visa will you be applying for?? I lived in Japan for two years with my husband. In order to get a visa for me, we had to get married in California before moving to Japan. I entered Japan on a tourist visa and then went to the immigration office in Hiroshima to apply for a dependent visa. My husband had a professor visa. Our California wedding certificate was considered as valid by the immigration official. As it was in English, we didn't even have to have it translated to Japanese.

I know quite a few foreigners married to Japanese people but they all got married in Japan. I am pretty sure your marriage in Texas will be recognized in Japan.

Julie

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Moved from IR-1/CR-1 Process & Procedures to Asia: East & Pacific regional forum; topic is about family law in Japan and not about the US spousal visa process.

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Ah . . . Japan, a true exercise in racism and discrimination!

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

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A U.S. marriage is reconnized in Japan, but just has to be registored with the local city. Japan has a system there (can't spell it) that is a family tree, that is the reason it has to be filled at the city hall. While someone married to a foreigner can add to there family tree, or they can split off their parents and start a new one linked to their parents. Basically that is it, forgive me but i just had to comment, just because you don't understand the way others do something does not make it( "Ah . . . Japan, a true exercise in racism and discrimination".)

 
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