American coming to Egypt to marry Egyptian fiance

tpeters · 2019-01-09T04:20:48+01:00

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?

tpeters Member

Member since 16 October 2018

tpetersMember09 January 2019 02:20:48

i am coming to marry my fiance.聽 i leave this week from USA聽 and just found out my divorce papers have聽 to be certified here by state department and Egyptian embassy.聽 i obviously dont have time to do this and with our Government shut downs the service is limited.聽 is this certification a must to marry?

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GuestPoster9532Guest10 January 2019 06:46:54

As far as I remember it says on the American Embassy website in聽 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

ahmed197666 Contributor

Member since 02 February 2015

ahmed197666Contributor04 February 2019 19:35:34

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your documents and聽 papers must be certified

Chicokoko Member

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ChicokokoMember06 February 2019 01:04:52

idom Member

Member since 31 October 2016

idomMember06 February 2019 13:48:07

Of course because Egypt is the country of paper!!

Sajiincigli Active member

Member since 17 June 2014

SajiincigliActive member13 April 2019 10:57:04

No it鈥檚 not good enough, they don鈥檛 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鈥檚 no way around it.