PROCEDURE TO GET MARRIED TO A VIETNAMESE CITIZEN

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.     - Please contact the following address:      J.L.A.C DEPARMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF CANADA 125 SUSSEX DRIVE, OTTAWA, ON K1A 0G2 TEL: 613-995-0119     Fax: 613-944-7078     - The address of the EMBASSY OF VIETNAM:      470 WILBROD STREET OTTAWA, ON, K1N 6M8 TEL: 613-236-0772/Ext.21 FAX: 613-236-2704 3- FEES: At the current fees or call 613-236-2688/Ext.21 for more information.