by Deano89 » Tue Oct 17, 2017 2:07 am
[quote="monomial"]My experience with the Cambodian embassy in Bangkok is that they will not issue any documents directly.
They will only certify documents that have been issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Phnom Penh. So if your intention is to get married in Thailand, then the sequence would be to go to Cambodia first to get all relevant permissions and translations (they must be in English) and get them certified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Phnom Penh, then go to the Cambodian Embassy in Bangkok to get the consular stamp, then to the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs to get that certified and translated in Thai.
You can then get married in Thailand.
Embassies further away from Cambodia may have different policies, but in my experience the Embassy in Bangkok seems to feel that it is close enough to go home that there is no valid reason for not getting things stamped and certified in Cambodia.[/quote]
Thanks a lot for the reply Monomial.
Sorry I wasn’t clear but we want to get married in Cambodia. We were told that we must go to the UK embassy in Bangkok to sign the affidavit there, then return to Cambodia to process the other documents along with the signed and stamped affidavit.
Have you had any experience with the UK embassy there?
Thanks
[quote="monomial"]My experience with the Cambodian embassy in Bangkok is that they will not issue any documents directly.
They will only certify documents that have been issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Phnom Penh. So if your intention is to get married in Thailand, then the sequence would be to go to Cambodia first to get all relevant permissions and translations (they must be in English) and get them certified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Phnom Penh, then go to the Cambodian Embassy in Bangkok to get the consular stamp, then to the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs to get that certified and translated in Thai.
You can then get married in Thailand.
Embassies further away from Cambodia may have different policies, but in my experience the Embassy in Bangkok seems to feel that it is close enough to go home that there is no valid reason for not getting things stamped and certified in Cambodia.[/quote]
Thanks a lot for the reply Monomial.
Sorry I wasn’t clear but we want to get married in Cambodia. We were told that we must go to the UK embassy in Bangkok to sign the affidavit there, then return to Cambodia to process the other documents along with the signed and stamped affidavit.
Have you had any experience with the UK embassy there?
Thanks