Acs - Do They Marry American Citizens At The Embassy?

[Kf6vci]

In California, I know a pastor who also has the bureaucratic permits to offer one-stop weddings. Is there a similar service by the ACS? Cheers!

[ubonjoe]

No the embassy does not perform weddings. No US embassy does.

Two foreigners can get marred in Thailand and register it at the Amphoe (district office).

See this webpage for info: http://bangkok.usembassy.gov/service/marriage.html

[Thanyaburi Mac]

No the embassy does not perform weddings. No US embassy does.

Two foreigners can get marred in Thailand and register it at the Amphoe (district office).

See this webpage for info: http://bangkok.usembassy.gov/service/marriage.html

Joe, well they used to, almost, sort of.

Back in 1976 & '77 I was working here on the Indochinese Refugee Program. We'd have refugee young folks who were already INS approved for the U.S. getting married to non-approved refugees now and then. Couldn't break up a new happy family so one of our JVA Americans came up with a good program.

We'd haul the happy couple over to the U.S. Embassy cafeteria, the good Reverend John Canon Taylor of the Christ Church on Convent Road would come over and do a short ceremony, Christen if the couple was such, sweet and fast if not, then the newly married couple would receive a "JUSMAG Marriage Certificate" to take along in life.

Guess it was semi legal, in any case, it worked. The process was stopped when one of our Thai staff thought it made a good human interest story and wrote it up for the Bangkok Post, World, or Nation, forget which. INS/Hong Kong wasn't real pleased and told us to cease and desist. Put a lot of people on travel hold until we could come up with something new.

Mac

[ubonjoe]

Mac

I just don't know what to say.

It would be interesting to know if they ever had any problems later proving they were married.

But at the present time it's a no in answer to the question.