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MARRIAGE IN VIETNAM

If you are a Canadian citizen or permanent resident and wish to get married in Vietnam, Immigroup Immigration Services can assist you through the application process by helping you prepare all the required documents required by Vietnamese authorities.

How to get married in Vietnam:

For a marriage in Vietnam you must first collect the following documents and have them authenticated, notarized, translated, and legalized.

A marriage search

A Single Status Declaration

Statement in lieu of non-impediment

If you are divorced, a certificate of divorce or a divorce judgement

If you are widowed, you must provide your spouse’s death certificate

A medical report issued by an authorized medical organization.

A long form birth certificate

Documents that show your status in Canada

If you have had a change of name, a certified document showing the change.

You must then present all these documents in Vietnam. It is advisable that you contact your partner to find where you must present these documents. If you cannot be in Vietnam to present these documents there are other forms you must fill out.

How Immigroup can help:

Service for a Canadian citizen or permanent resident who wishes to sponsor their spouse:

If you recently got married to a non-Canadian resident and would like to bring your spouse to Canada, Immigroup can help you submit a sponsorship application to allow your spouse to immigrate to Canada. Our fees for this service are $3000 + government fees.

The following information about the process for a marriage in Vietnam is taken from the Embassy of Vietnam.

1- Subject:
  - Vietnamese residents in Canada
  - Canadian citizens

2- Marriage dossier:
  - Statement in lieu of Certificate of non-impediment, issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada.

  - Marriage Search, issued by Provincial Vital Statistics and obligatorily sealed by the Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada, certifies that no marriage certificate or marriage record of the applicant has been found for the period from the beginning of legal age for marriage to date.

  - Single Status Declaration certified by a Notary Public or Commissioner for Oath, obligatorily sealed by the Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada.

    + In case of divorce, please provide a Divorce Judgment and Certificate of Divorce, obligatorily sealed by the Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada.

    + In case the applicant is widowed, please provide a Certificate of Death of his/her spouse (obligatorily sealed by the Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada).

  - Medical Certificate, issued by an authorized medical organization or physician and obligatorily sealed by the Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada, clearly indicates that the applicant is free from mental and infectious diseases, has no sexually transmitted diseases (especially free from HIV/AIDS) with supporting reports of physician examination and blood tests and is generally healthy and fit to get married (only the page with the comments of doctor needs to be translated into Vietnamese; results of tests are not required to be translated).

  - Copy of Birth Certificate certified by a Notary Public or Commissioner for Oath. In case of having no copy of Birth Certificate (lost, dismissed or can not obtained), the applicant should make an Affidavit or Statutory Declaration in lieu of Birth certificate (obligatorily sealed by the Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada).

  - Copy of personal documents (Passport, Citizenship Card/Landed Immigrant document) certified by a Notary Public or Commissioner.

  - Certified of changing name (if any) (obligatorily sealed by the Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada).,

  - In case the applicant can not come to Vietnam to submit in person all marriage documents or divorce papers, the applicant has to make a Power of Attorney (Download Form UQ/LS), certified by a Notary Public or Commissioner for Oath and fill out 02 Biography Information Sheet (Download Form LLKH) and 02 Applications for Marriage Registration (Download Form DKKH) with 01 latest photo attached to each form.

NOTE:

    - All documents have to be valid within six months since the date issued on the papers.

    - All documents need to be legalized and translated into Vietnamese (only copies of Passport, Birth Certificate, Record of landing… do not need to be translated into Vietnamese).

    - All the above-mentioned documents need to be sealed by the Department of Foreign Affairs of Canada before sending to the Embassy of Vietnam to legalize.

Contact Information:
Embassy of Vietnam:
470 Wilbord Street
Ottawa, ON
K1N 6M8

Immigroup Immigration Services
1180 Danforth Ave,
Toronto, Ontario
M4J 1M3
(416) 962-2623