hi everyone i am Australian girl going to marry my boyfriend in morocco next month do i need citizenship certificate ? and do i need the no impediment to marriage certificate if yes where i make it ! last question proof of residency certificate would my identity card be enough in morocco to marry .
Have a look at the link below in regards to Moroccan marriage requirements.
Visa applications for Moroccan partners go through Cairo and can be quite tricky. Judging by your inquiry, you might be well advised to get professional assistance with any visa applications.
Note also that getting married by itself will not guarantee a visa for your husband-to-be. In many cases, depending on your relationship/co-habitation history, a prospective marriage visa may be a better option.
It would help if you actually read the information I provided.
In Australia
If you are in Australia, prior to going to Morocco, please:
complete and sign the "Certificate of No Impediment to Marriage" in the presence of a person listed on the application
obtain certified copies of your passport and your birth certificate as well as certified copies of your future spouse's passport and birth certificate
send the above mentioned documents to the Australian Embassy in Paris who will send you the two attestations by standard mail to the address of your choice.
I would think very long and carefully about marrying before you lodge and get a visa. As has been said marriage does not mean he can get a visa alot of evidence is required. You would be better off going down the PMV road.
The Cairo embassy where partner visa applications are lodged as known for requiring alot more evidence than other embassies and majority of applicants are interviewed.
If you do want to marry first I suggest a consult with Nick (CCMS) first as he has experience with the Cairo embassy and Moroccan applications.
I wish you good luck if you are getting married in Morocco! It could be one of the most stressful experiences of your life that you will be glad once it's over!
I was married in Morocco and it's not as simple as we would like to think.
You will need alot of time, a lot of patience and a truck load of documents by the time you get to the part of writing the contract.
From your list
no impediment - Yes you need that
Citizenship Certificate - No. You passport is Enough.
Identity Card - No
Along with that you will need at least 7-12 other documents. Most from within Morocco they will issue you. It's getting those documents issued which becomes the most stressful!
You say you want to get married next month. Once you begin the process of getting married that alone is going to take you at the very least 2-3+ weeks to prepare all the documents you will need from within Morocco. Now is May, next Month is June, Ramadan starts on 18th June - 17th July during that time many public offices will not be open for where you will need to get certain things from Or the people you need to see will not be there.
I guarantee it's a life experience you will never forget! But the things we do for love it will be okay in the end!
If I had known the "process" prior to getting married I would have opted to do the marriage in Australia.
thank you so much and i know it very hard thing to do i just wonder when you got married cose the moroccans ask for citizenship cert in thier page
the police check did you do national police check ?i did natioanl and then i did read on site finger print are asked too ?
I just had the police check the NSW Criminal Records Section. Did not do the national AFP one. I noticed what you mean about the fingerprint thing part National Police Checks - Australian Federal Police I'm not sure really which one you would need to get. Maybe it is better to be on the safe side and get the AFP one if you can (the option without having to be in Australia to fingerprint etc if your not there, I'm sure there is a way)
Also you need a criminal record printed from within Morocco from Morocco (I got this in Rabat). It didn't make sense to get this because I was not from Morocco but it is required, that is quick same day.
Yeah I was not asked for citizen certificate but I guess it's better to be safe then sorry
The only other thing is all your documents need to be valid within 3 months. All of ours had to be. This included birth certificate (as crazy as that sounds, I had a long debate with a judge who was looking for a issue date/expiry date about my birth certificate. Then trying to explain birth certificates are issued when you are born etc. We had to see another judge to solve that problem + a bit of help from my wifes cousin whom worked in the court system) - It could possibly better to get a new one printed which would have a date of issue which is within 3 months of you getting married.
Last thing is when we had everything we needed and gave them, they took them and returned nothing but photocopies so they keep originals of what you give.
Final thing. If you need something like a document important sent from Australia to Morocco don't send it regular mail if you need it fast. I lived there for a while and someone sending something by airmail from oz to Morocco didn't arrive at least 3-4 weeks. Sometimes things did not even turn up It cost more but I used www.interparcel.com.au DHL or UPS which is fast and reliable.
Unless you will be living together as a married couple for the required period of time before lodging a visa application,a much easier option could be applying for a prospective marriage visa and getting married in Australia.
Susanna we just want to warn you of these things upfront. We see people on this forum say "I wish I had known this before I got married".
Back in 2010 to 2012 Cario embassy had a bad rep for rejecting alot of applications. They seem to have approved alot now but doesn't mean they don't reject them. We just want to prepare you and save you the grief.
If you are going straight back to Australia after the wedding a PMV is a better option. You would be living apart either way so you are better off to go the easier option.
CCMS: Do you have any stats on rejections and approvals out of Cairo for PMV and partner visa's?
No I don't. But this scenario can be uniformly applied. People get married too quickly, then realise that they can only stay with each other in their respective countries for limited time and find it hard to meet the relationship/co-habitation requirements. Because they are already married, the much easier PMV pathway is no longer available.
Add to that the hassle of having to deal with overseas marriage certificates instead of an Australian one and you can create all sort of unnecessary complications.
Not saying that is the case with the OP, but unless they will be able to live together for an extended period, a partner visa application just based on marriage, may be problematic.
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