Is there any country in Europe (except Cyprus) where two American
citizens / Israeli citizens (we both have dual nationality) can get
married quickly without a lot of bureaucracy?
Background: I have legal resident status in France. My partner does
not. France requires that we produce official birth certificates and
certificates showing that we have no record of arrests. These have to
be requested from USA or Israel, and that takes ages at best. We would
like to find a country in Europe where two foreigners can arrive, use
their passports (or other easy-to-get-your-hands-on documents) as
identification, pay for a special marriage licence (or whatever is
required), and get married by the civil authority, without having to
stay many days/weeks, or to establish residence, etc. Since we live in
Eastern France (on the border of Geneva, Switzerland), we would prefer
a near-by country. But any European country will do, except Cyprus.
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Request for Question Clarification by
politicalguru-ga
on
15 Dec 2005 05:44 PST
Dear Martin,
I've done a research for you on all of the European countries (OK,
maybe not all, but would you like to get married in Armenia or
Albania?). You can safely say that all of them request birth
certificates (that includes Italy, mentioned in Mayoarin's comment).
However, I've found few places, where basically they say that if birth
certificate is not available, a passport will do. I cannot vouch,
though, that you'll be able to convince them that you don't need a
borth certificate - it seems to be dependant upon the judgement of the
clerk. Would you like details of these places anyway?
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Clarification of Question by
martinef-ga
on
20 Dec 2005 05:35 PST
Thank you all for your comments. Webadept-ga's idea of hiring a cruise
ship is clever, but not really what we had in mind. Owain-ga's
information about Scotland is on the right track, but not conclusive.
The question referenced by myoarin-ga is interesting, but
unfortunately the answer is not helpful.
In response to the question asked by politicalguru-ga: yes, I would
like to see information about the places that say they will accept a
passport if a birth certificate is not available. In fact, I would be
interested in seeing all the places that say they require birth
certificates, as long as they are willing to waive the period of
residence or reduce it significantly (to less than 4 days, or by
allowing arrangements to be made at distance as in the example given
by owain-ga for Scotland). In these cases, where the period of
residence is either not required or can be reduced to a minimum, it
would be interesting also to know what kind of birth certificate they
ask for: issued in country of birth, certified translation made
outside country of birth, etc. The latter is definitely an option for
us. Thank you very much for your help! martinef
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