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feverpitch

2/13/2014 13:30 EST

To all,

A few years ago, an American colleague of mine got married in South Korea to a Thai national. He now lives and works in Saudi Arabia. He is currently applying for residency for his wife in Saudi Arabia and he was told something by the Korean embassy which was really surprising to me.

He said the Korean embassy in Riyadh told him that foreigners who get married in Korea have to have their original marriage certificate ‘stamped’ or ‘verified’ every single year by the government office where they got married. This would mean travelling back to Korea every single year for the rest of his life.

As I said earlier, this seems like a really strange, and costly requirement if it’s true, so I was wondering if anyone here could shed some light on this at all, or has heard of something similar?

Thank you,
FeverPitch.

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Jgalstad

2/25/2014 21:39 EST

Not that I know of. I got married waaay back in year 2000 (my husband and I are American), and used the original marriage certificate for all legal purposes afterwards. We did get extra certificates later when we had a chance to visit Korea, but no one ever raised a question of validity of the original marriage certificate.

I could be wrong, but the last time I was in Korea was just last year and never had a problem with the marriage certificate - I needed it for some legal paperwork and no officials questioned whether the marriage certificate had been "re-stamped" or renewed like your friend was told.

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2/25/2014 21:40 EST

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feverpitch

2/25/2014 23:46 EST

Jgalstad

Thanks very much for your response. It's very helpful.

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