Where to get married in Bangkok

[ding 1]

Anyone know where to get married in Bangkok so it will be legal in the eyes of the US government?

[SqdnGuns 21]

You have me so confused................one day it's on, the next it is off............

Take some time to be damn sure m8!!

Chok Dee

[ding 1]

LOL, yeah I should do a timeline on it I guess.

Broke it off 5-4 after 2 months of little lies popping up all over the place.

Sent request to cancel letter 5-14 went out in mail.

She came clean and stopped to silly lying, forgave her, reconciling 5-26.

Decided to start again 6-2?

Anyone know where to legally marry in Bankok? Embassy do it?

Between vendor carts on Sukhumvit? KSR?

[Jamie76 0]

From: http://www.thailandweddings.com/fegal.html

TO MARRY A THAI CITIZEN YOU MUST FOLLOW THESE STEPS:

1. Complete an affidavit at the American Embassy. The affidavit form, available upon request, includes all of the information required by relevant Thai law. The form must be completed and notarized at the Embassy.

2. Have the completed affidavit translated.

3. Take the affidavit and translation to:

Legalization Division

Department of Consular Affairs

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

3rd Floor, 123 Chaeng Wattana Road

Tung Song Hong, Laksi District, Bangkok

Tel:(02) 575-1057-8, Fax:(02) 575-1054

4. Take the affidavit and supporting documents to a local Amphur and register yourselves as married. The Amphur will also require the following documents:

a) Your American passport;

B) The Thai citizen's identification card;

c) If either party is under the age of twenty, written

permission from the parents (with Thai translation);

d) If either you or your fiance have been previously married the Amphur will want to see proof that prior marriages have been terminated; either divorce or death certificates. These documents if available, should be translated into Thai prior to presentation at the Amphur.

[RUKTHUR 0]

Anyone know where to get married in Bangkok so it will be legal in the eyes of the US government?

I think you can register a marriage certificate at every Registration Office in Thailand. You have just marriage license and translate to English language.

But lots of couples usaully register a marriage certificate at Bangrak Registration. Because it is an auspicious name.

Edited July 4, 2007 by RUKTHUR

[BishopMnA 0]

Anyone know where to get married in Bangkok so it will be legal in the eyes of the US government?

[ding 1]

Ok, thanks!

Looks like we don't need a ceremony or anything. Just papework, baht, and ID.

[ding 1]

One more thing.

Do I need a letter from my US Embassy that says I'm free to marry , or is THAT the affidavit at the embassy? The USA has no free to marry statement/form, per se.

All I can find online is that I need my divorce decree. And -that embassies can provide it for a fee if the country we're marrying in requires it.

Does Thailand require a free to marry form in addition to the affidavit at the embassy?

Edited July 6, 2007 by ding

[Yodrak 7]

ding,

The affidavit that you execute at the US consulate, and have 'legalized' at the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the 'free to marry' document that will be required by the amphur in order to register the marriage. In addition, what the instructions that Jamie quoted don't say, if you are divorced there is a second affidavit that you will need to execute at the consulate attesting to the divorce. The consulate will charge you $50 for notarizing the two documents - $30 for the first, $20 for the second.

I don't recall if the divorce affidavit eliminated the need for me to have my divorce certificate available when registering the marriage at the amphur, but the subject reminds me of one other thing - when Rodjanaa and I registered our marriage the amphur officer took back her divorce certificate. Knowing that I would need it for the visa application I had enough foresight to make some photocopies before we surrendered it, but I did not have enough foresight to have the amphur 'certify' the photocopies. At her visa interview Rodjanaa was given a 221(g) rejection for not being able to present a certified divorce certificate. She had to go back to the amphur where our marriage was registered (where the original divorce certificate had been surrendered) and have a photocopy certified.

Yodrak

One more thing.

Do I need a letter from my US Embassy that says I'm free to marry , or is THAT the affidavit at the embassy? The USA has no free to marry statement/form, per se.

All I can find online is that I need my divorce decree. And -that embassies can provide it for a fee if the country we're marrying in requires it.

Does Thailand require a free to marry form in addition to the affidavit at the embassy?

Edited July 6, 2007 by Yodrak

[ding 1]

ding,

The affidavit that you execute at the US consulate, and have 'legalized' at the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the 'free to marry' document that will be required by the amphur in order to register the marriage. In addition, what the instructions that Jamie quoted don't say, if you are divorced there is a second affidavit that you will need to execute at the consulate attesting to the divorce. The consulate will charge you $50 for notarizing the two documents - $30 for the first, $20 for the second.

I don't recall if the divorce affidavit eliminated the need for me to have my divorce certificate available when registering the marriage at the amphur, but the subject reminds me of one other thing - when Rodjanaa and I registered our marriage the amphur officer took back her divorce certificate. Knowing that I would need it for the visa application I had enough foresight to make some photocopies before we surrendered it, but I did not have enough foresight to have the amphur 'certify' the photocopies. At her visa interview Rodjanaa was given a 221(g) rejection for not being able to present a certified divorce certificate. She had to go back to the amphur where our marriage was registered (where the original divorce certificate had been surrendered) and have a photocopy certified.

Yodrak

Wow that sounds like a headache. Did that add weeks of waiting?

I'll have a certified copy of my divorce decree and a copy in Thai and English with us. Lek has never been married, but I want to have her sisters and friend get some form of "certified" affidavit that they witnessed us in the Buddhist ceremony for marry upcountry. And that our marriage is real. This would help in my K-3, but Lek says there is no "notary" type thing for these types of writrten statements.

Is there a stamp they can get on their statements?

[Yodrak 7]

ding,

.....

I don't recall if the divorce affidavit eliminated the need for me to have my divorce certificate available when registering the marriage at the amphur, but the subject reminds me of one other thing - when Rodjanaa and I registered our marriage the amphur officer took back her divorce certificate. Knowing that I would need it for the visa application I had enough foresight to make some photocopies before we surrendered it, but I did not have enough foresight to have the amphur 'certify' the photocopies. At her visa interview Rodjanaa was given a 221(g) rejection for not being able to present a certified divorce certificate. She had to go back to the amphur where our marriage was registered (where the original divorce certificate had been surrendered) and have a photocopy certified.

Yodrak

Wow that sounds like a headache. Did that add weeks of waiting?

Yes, it did add weeks of waiting. She flew to Chiangmai in the afternoon after the interview, went to the amphur the next morning, and flew back to Bangkok arriving in time to submit the document in the afternoon, the day after the interview. Unfortunately it was the end of the week and there were Thai holidays in the next two weeks so many consular officers took advantage of the holidays to go on vacation. My wife's case officer had already left Bangkok. So although she was able to respond within 1 day the circumstances resulted in a 3-week delay in issuing the visa. And that resulted in her having to travel to the USA without me, her 2 year old son in tow. I was able to take some of her luggage in advance, with me, but she still had her hands full.

I'll have a certified copy of my divorce decree and a copy in Thai and English with us. Lek has never been married, but I want to have her sisters and friend get some form of "certified" affidavit that they witnessed us in the Buddhist ceremony for marry upcountry. And that our marriage is real. This would help in my K-3, but Lek says there is no "notary" type thing for these types of writrten statements.

Is there a stamp they can get on their statements?

One can have written statements sworn to and certified at an amphur office. I'm not sure of the proper Thai-language terminology to use for this, I don't know how well the English-language terminology I just used translates. Nor do I see any value in the statements you propose.

Yodrak

[My Le 0]

To avoid all the headaches, you could let one of the translation service centers that are recommmended by the US Embassy at the time you apply for the affidavit that sets a US citizen "free to marry" in Thailand take care the marriage paperwork processing for you. Located across the street from the Embassy and nearby, these centers do more than translation and everything is legal. The fee is about from 200 to 300 US$. And in a matter of days you'll get a certificate of marriage in Thai and a translation of it into English that is certified by Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Then everything becomes legal in the eyes of the US government.

I had my certicate marriage done that way. My wife is Vietnamese, yours is a Thai; so yours could be simpler to process.

Good luck!

[bill13060 0]

The Thai marriage certificate is the paper you get from the amphur with the heart boarder right? I had mine translated with a company in New York, cost me 65 dollars.

Edited July 19, 2008 by will92104

[birch- phuk_beer 0]

yes, you need certification to marry for the emnbassy. easy to do,

go to this place very near the Embassy and they will do the translating, documentation and even escourt you to the BKK Amphor to have it leagalized and sworn in.

We went to a place across the street from the Embassy.

Master Class Translation Service

Maxim House Building 2nd floor

Room 202A

112 Wireless Rd.

Tel. 0-2651-4266

email: mctbangkok@msn.com