i am coming to marry my fiance. i leave this week from USA and just found out my divorce papers have to be certified here by state department and Egyptian embassy. i obviously dont have time to do this and with our Government shut downs the service is limited. is this certification a must to marry?
American coming to Egypt to marry Egyptian fiance
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GuestPoster9532
10 January 2019 08:46:54
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As far as I remember it says on the American Embassy website in Cairo that they don't have central data-base for marriage/divorce; it is state-based. So the embassy cannot testify of whether you are married or not, but they can make you write (perhaps they have a form ready) an affidavit testifying that you have no legal reasons for not getting married and you sign it. This document is sufficient to satisfy legal requirements for an American to get married in Egypt
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your documents and papers must be certified
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No
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Of course because Egypt is the country of paper!!
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No it's not good enough, they don't make it easy at all. You must send your divorce papers first to have certified by the state you live, the the department of state. After this it must be stamped from the Egyptian consulate in America.
The same scenario happened to me, and many others before...there's no way around it.
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