What documents does daughter need ?

Question

my daughter is going soom to live in cairo and to marry her egyptian boyfriend and we really need to find out what actual documents she needs to take to get married?.......ive been to the british embassy in cairos website which says 'first come to the Consular Section of the Embassy in Cairo to make statutory declarations, before a consular officer, that they are free to marry. Passports need to be shown as proof of identity together with documentary evidence of the termination of any former marriage(s). For example, they should bring any previous marriage certificates, divorce (decree absolute) certificates and change of name certificates or, if appropriate the death certificate of a deceased spouse -

what i need to know is as she has never ever been married or had her named changed would just a birth certificate and passport be acceptable?

Answer 1

you can ask at the British Embassy website  about the needed proof that she hasnt married before .

most probably it would be a signed and stamped statement from her place of work or city council .

good luck .

congratulations .

Answer 2

Official papers are a major survival tool in Egypt. Without stamps, evidence documents and translations you will face problems...

1.If  there has been a name change then you cannot provide divorce papers to explain this but surely you must have documents proving the name change process?  If not then you might have problems explaining that to the moslem marriage officials as there is no such thing as 'changing your name' here...so you would need to provide proof of this name change process (documents to and from passport office and solicitors etc) to the British embassy in Cairo so that they can provide you with an official form explaining that your daughter is free to marry.  She is unable to get married officially here without this embassy declaration.  I believe that this can be a self made declaration so this should not be a problem as long as you can provide the name change documents!

2. if you don't produce all the evidence needed - your daughter may face problems about this with her future husband - however wonderful he may be right now - if they have troubles and he decides to use this confusion of names against her. One day there might be kids and custody battles so you should protect yourself from future problems. Never say never... so even if the embassy enables her to sign a self declaration and she just goes ahead using her passport only - the difference in certificate names must be supported with legal evidence of how this happened.  

4. When she comes here she should get all her papers translated into Arabic (ask for translators at the embassy) and kept safe with a lawyer in case of need.

5. To avoid all this hassle - there is a lovely place called Daar Al Takwa on Baker street in London where moslem people can get marrried officially and it is recognised by UK law.  All you need is two passports and the witnesses. Then the paper can be stamped by the UK Foreign Office.  Then later you take your paper to Cairo and get it certified in Egypt as a marriage - a document legalising and recognising your marriage as it has been stamped by the FCO and by the Embassy. A lawyer can do this for you you don't even need to have any hassle driving around Cairo getting papers stamped  - NOT FUN at all.

Then you can celebrate your wedding in Cairo without having ten thousand bits of paper to deal with straight away!