Kees Leune

Hi,

I am in a situation where my girlfriend and I want to get married in the Netherlands.
She is American. At the time of the wedding, she will not be living here. According
to the people at city hall, that is not a problem. The only things she needs are a
birth certificate, a proof of civil status
(i.e., she has to prove that she's not married to somebody else) and proof of
residency. The birth certificate and the proof of civil status have to be
legalised with an apostille.

We have already called the state departement of New York, but we did not really learn
much there. Does anyone on this group know where we can get the proof of residency
and the proof of civil status? And also, where can we have the birth certificate and
the civil status legalised by apostille?

Thanks for any answers!

--
Kees Leune

Alvena Ferreira

Kees Leune wrote:
    > I am in a situation where my girlfriend and I want to get married in the
    > Netherlands. She is American. At the time of the wedding, she will not be living
    > here. According to the people at city hall, that is not a problem. The only things
    > she needs are a birth certificate, a proof of civil status
    > (i.e., she has to prove that she's not married to somebody else) and proof of
    > residency. The birth certificate and the proof of civil status have to be
    > legalised with an apostille. We have already called the state departement of
    > New York, but we did not really learn much there. Does anyone on this group
    > know where we can get the proof of residency and the proof of civil status?
    > And also, where can we have the birth certificate and the civil status
    > legalised by apostille?
    >
http://www.travel.state.gov/hague_foreign_docs.html Alvena See the Doc Steen site
here: http://www.mindspring.com/~docsteen/...o/visainfo.htm I am not a lawyer,
and this is not immigration advice. The information I provide is mostly gleaned from
old newsgroup posts and visa links on the internet. If you want or need a lawyer, go
to: http://www.aila.org

Michael Voight

There is no document in the US that proves you are unmarried since there is no
national registry of marriages and divorces.

Michael

Eileen

Well THAT was helpful Michael. Next time could you say....there is no official
preprinted government document BUT you can make your own with a properly worded
statement and get it officially certified by government offices. These
'official statements' are readily accepted as 'singleness' so that a foreign
marriage can proceed.

Eileen

"Michael Voight" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > There is no document in the US that proves you are unmarried since there is no
    > national registry of marriages and divorces.
    >
    >
    > Michael

Mrtravel

Now, how "helpful" is your followup? Did you post a link about how to do this? Did
you tell them how to do this? NO, instead you are blasting someone for making an
accurate statement. Or... Can you tell me what part of the statement was wrong?

So, rather than blasting people, why don't you actually post a link to this
information and do something "helpful" yourself.

Eileen wrote:
    >
    > Well THAT was helpful Michael. Next time could you say....there is no official
    > preprinted government document BUT you can make your own with a properly worded
    > statement and get it officially certified by government offices. These 'official
    > statements' are readily accepted as 'singleness' so that a foreign marriage can
    > proceed.
    >
    > Eileen
    >
    > "Michael Voight" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > news:[email protected]...
    > > There is no document in the US that proves you are unmarried since there is no
    > > national registry of marriages and divorces.
    > >
    > >
    > > Michael

Eileen

I emailed him step by step. Michael....we keep arguing like this and I might get you
mixed up with 'the ex' Eileen "mrtravel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > Now, how "helpful" is your followup? Did you post a link about how to do this? Did
    > you tell them how to do this? NO, instead you are blasting someone for making an
    > accurate statement. Or... Can you tell me what part of the statement was wrong?
    >
    > So, rather than blasting people, why don't you actually post a link to this
    > information and do something "helpful" yourself.
    >

ok...you can find it in our story at www.usadutch.com OR I will be glad to email step
by step for how we accomplished it in The Netherlands

    > Eileen wrote:
    > >
    > > Well THAT was helpful Michael. Next time could you say....there is no official
    > > preprinted government document BUT you can make your own with a properly worded
    > > statement and get it
officially
    > > certified by government offices. These 'official statements' are
readily
    > > accepted as 'singleness' so that a foreign marriage can proceed.
    > >
    > > Eileen
    > >
    > > "Michael Voight" <[email protected]> wrote in message
    > > news:[email protected]...
    > > > There is no document in the US that proves you are unmarried since
there
    > > > is no national registry of marriages and divorces.
    > > >
    > > >
    > > > Michael

Mrtravel

Eileen wrote:
    >
    > I emailed him step by step.

Great.. For things that might help others you send a private email, but for
discussions between you and someone else about taking your ex to court, you post
publiclly and complain when others respond to your "private" newsgroup conversation.
You have it backwards. Helpful information that benefits others gets posted to the
newsgroup. Conversation that you don't want others butting into, you should send via
email and not post.