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Home » Reader question » Is getting married in Vegas to my Thai girlfriend a valid marriage?
Dear readers,
Is getting married in Vegas to my Thai girlfriend an option to validate a marriage? This is possible in the Netherlands, but I don't know in Thailand.
Is this option realistic or are there also snags and how will my girlfriend come to the Netherlands or will I move to Thailand?
I'm curious about your reactions 😉
Regards,
Gerrit
Fortunately, marriage is not a requirement to live together in the Netherlands. If you want to get married, do it, but why make it so difficult for you? Then either get married in the Netherlands (also possible on a Short Stay Visa) or in Thailand. Then have the marriage registered/recognized in the other country. That's already enough paperwork. Let alone if you do it via a third country (the US).
If you want to live in Thailand, marriage has some advantages, but it is not necessary there either. Living in quotes because real immigration is possible (eg through work) but is not for most Westerners. And a Permanent Residence residence permit is quite expensive. Remains for most an infinitely extended short stay with report after report after report to the Immigration as a Non-immigrant.
See also the file on a visa for Thailand (by Ronny) and the file Immigration Thai partner (by me), via the menu on your left.
I've done both. My last wedding here in Thailand and the wedding before that in Las Vegas (not to a Thai). In any case, I would not marry a Thai woman in Las Vegas. I think the paperwork is getting unnecessarily large. Getting married is easy there. But then the marriage has to be registered, translated, legalized and so on. The preparations, translations, legalization of papers is also complicated enough in Thailand, but everything can be done within Thailand. I had to fly to the US twice to get my papers in order. That was easy for me, because I often came to the States because of my work. But for a normal person it is not possible because of the costs. The actual wedding at the amphur lasted 20 minutes and most of the work was done by the officials and my wife. I was chatting with another foreigner and after fifteen minutes I was able to sign the documents and I was married!
I got married in Las Vegas in 2000 and this is a legal marriage for the Netherlands!!!
The procedure :
First to the city hall there to get a marriage license, fifteen minutes in line, pay $ 30, names of yourself and father / mother and done.
Then set up an appointment at The Little White Chapel (there are over 30 wedding venues in Vegas) for the next day, rented a limo, and got married there in an outdoor gazebo.
You get a kind of marriage certificate. With that to another office to get an apostille stamp.
Everything very easy to do. It can even be done all in one day.
All the paperwork on the bus to my house.
After our month-long honeymoon we went home by post to the town hall and the official registered us as officially married.
I thought it was a very nice experience and can recommend doing it that way.
Dear Gerrit,
If you want to save a lot of paperwork and money, go to the island of Aero in Denmark (it is also called Marriage Island ) Google it.
Costs you 60 Euro and the ceremony only takes half an hour.
What you need is an extract from the birth register, proof that you are single and Passport and/or EU residence permit (Schengen visa)
.is completely legal ..
Good luck,
Richard
Oh, forgot to mention the island is called Aero
Richard, you overlooked that you hadn't forgotten, right in the first sentence you mentioned Aero.. 😉
Also in Denmark: town of Tönder where you can legally marry within Schengezone.
But can she come to the Netherlands without a visa and continue to live in the Netherlands and possibly get/apply for Dutch nationality?
No of course not. Then everyone did.