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When marriages with foreign element are rejected

When marriages with foreign element are rejected

Before a foreigner and Vietnamese decide to get married, they must have known each other for some time.  However, due to difference in cultures, and laws in different countries, they might fall under cases which are not allowed by Vietnam State Authority to get married.

The marriage registration of marriage with foreign elements will be rejected in the following cases:

– One or both parties fail to reach the Vietnam legal age of marriage

– The foreign applicant is not old enough to get married under the laws of the country where he/she is a citizen or permanent resident (for stateless persons)

– The marriage is not voluntarily decided by both parties

– There is deception, forced marriage

– One or both parties are married

– One or both parties lose the civil act capacity

– The parties are in the direct line of descent or relatives within three generations

– The parties are or have been father, mother and child, father-in-law and daughter-in-law, mother-in-law and son-in-law, stepfather and his wife’s children, stepmother and her husband’s children

– The parties of the same sex (men marrying men and women marrying women)

– The marriage registration is also be rejected, if the results of the interview, examination, verification show that the marriage through illegal brokers, sham marriage does not aim to build a prosperous, equality, progress, happiness and sustainability family, married inconsistent with the habits and customs of culture, taking advantage of the marriage to trafficking in women and sexual abuse against women or for other personal benefits.

ANT Lawyers provide services for marriage and family, please contact us for advices at email: ant@antlawyers.vn or call us at +84 24 730 86 529

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