Hi,
I'm an American citizen looking to marry a Vietnamese citizen.
There is one document that just seems impossible to get. It's the certificate saying that I am not currently married in the USA. This must be provided by the state vital statistics office and must be a search from the age of 18 til present.
However, contacting a state vital statistics office is like finding the direct line to the president. The only way I can find so far is to mail in my request.
The Vietnamese embassy says the document also needs to be signed by the secretary of state of the State for which the document was issued and it needs to be legalized by the Vietnamese embassy in the USA.
This seems like a REALLY crazy process.
However, everywhere I search online no one seems to be talking about this. Surely there are other people that have had to get this document in order to get married in Vietnam.
Can someone speak to this and enlighten me a bit on this document?
Bonus points if you're from the U.S.