Hi everyone
I am currently looking into how to get married here in Taiwan to my girlfriend who is a Taiwanese national and I am an APRC holder from England.
It looks to be impossible without going back to England which we naturally cannot do at the moment due to COVID.
If anyone has done this and can help me with some steps to follow or places to go for help then I would be incredibly grateful. This is driving me mad!
He needs a document from his home country saying he is single.
To get this from the England, you have to apply in person. So a trip back is a must. Massive pain in the arse, so people used to get married in HK instead because no document was needed.
Can you apply remotely now? No idea…I got married 13 years ago.
Should be easy to google. I doubt it though. They have to put a notice up in the registry office announcing you will marry. People then have a certain amount of time to protest.
If memory serves me correctly there was a post on one of the Brits in Taiwan Facebook pages, perhaps also on here, with a very inventive way to get “around” that requirement. AFAIR it involved an online marriage in a US state and use of that marriage certificate to translate to a Taiwan certificate or something along those lines.
I’ve just traveled back to the UK to get this certificate, but they are refusing to issue me one, as they say it can only given to residents in the UK, and as I resident in Taiwan, they are unable to help.
They won’t give you the certificate of no impediment in the UK if you’re not a resident there. Just been round a number of different registry offices and they all said the same thing.