A quick question to someone who may know... if I may...

Re getting a UK marriage recorded in Thailand.

Does a UK Marriage Certificate need to certified/verified by the Embassy in Bangkok BEFORE it can be translated into Thai? Or can I get the marriage cert. translated first?

Cheers.

This is not a situation I have come across personally, but I would think that as your UK Marriage Certificate is already a legal document in the UK, then there is no need to have it certified here at the UK Embassy in Bangkok. (I'm not even sure if they certify documents anyway).

My thoughts are that you'd get it translated, then legalised at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (The translation would then become a legal document).

Is there any need to register an overseas marriage here in Thailand?? I really don't know, but I guess if your wife wishes to change her name, ID card etc, then she'd need these documents.

Also, just to clarify, I take it that you married a Thai National in the UK.

Hopefully someone else can confirm/correct my thinking.

Edited May 1, 201115 yr by thecatman

This is not a situation I have come across personally, but I would think that as your UK Marriage Certificate is already a legal document in the UK, then there is no need to have it certified here at the UK Embassy in Bangkok. (I'm not even sure if they certify documents anyway).

My thoughts are that you'd get it translated, then legalised at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (The translation would then become a legal document).

Is there any need to register an overseas marriage here in Thailand?? I really don't know, but I guess if your wife wishes to change her name, ID card etc, then she'd need these documents.

Also, just to clarify, I take it that you married a Thai National in the UK.

Hopefully someone else can confirm/correct my thinking.

Yep, wife is a Thai National. I'm just trying to find out the most streamlined preliminary procedures prior to recording the marriage at the amphur. Needs to be done for my extension of stay based on marriage.