Certificate of Non- Impediment

[NHTowerclimber]

Hello all....again.......,
I have had some great responses to my questions. Thanks everyone  . Here's the big one: Is there any way to avoid Kiev concerning my Cert. of Non- Impediment? Having to travel there, then to my fiancees hometown to marry really throws a HUGE wrench in everything. Is this someting I can have taken care of at the Ukrainian Consolate in NYC?

Thank You!

[ECR844]

In NYC you can go to the city clerks office they have one online and they do them all the time. Alternatively, you could go to your state dept of vital records. Get a letter of 'negative result' from the age you were legally able to marry to today. Then you go your state's secretary of state's office, and get the either one you did apostilled. Those go with you to the locality you are getting married in. Once there they will need to be translated and apostilled by the gvt-locality, along with your passport. Then those and the other paperwork will be ready to go to ZAGS with your application and other info.

Once there you go through the ZAGS process and you're off having successfully avoided the embassy in Kiev or wherever and for whatever reason it is you didn't want to go there.

[Chris]

Hello all....again.......,
I have had some great responses to my questions. Thanks everyone  . Here's the big one: Is there any way to avoid Kiev concerning my Cert. of Non- Impediment? Having to travel there, then to my fiancees hometown to marry really throws a HUGE wrench in everything. Is this someting I can have taken care of at the Ukrainian Consolate in NYC?

Thank You!

I got mine Apostilled in the Legalisation Office at the British Embassy in London, and then got it all OK'd in my wife's city, never had to go to Kyiv for it. They probably have a similar service at the US Embassy in a city near you. Remember that it will require a translation into Ukrainian aswell, but you can get that done over there.

[ECR844]

Hello all....again.......,
I have had some great responses to my questions. Thanks everyone  . Here's the big one: Is there any way to avoid Kiev concerning my Cert. of Non- Impediment? Having to travel there, then to my fiancees hometown to marry really throws a HUGE wrench in everything. Is this someting I can have taken care of at the Ukrainian Consolate in NYC?

Thank You!

I got mine Apostilled in the Legalisation Office at the British Embassy in London, and then got it all OK'd in my wife's city, never had to go to Kyiv for it. They probably have a similar service at the US Embassy in a city near you. Remember that it will require a translation into Ukrainian aswell, but you can get that done over there.

The US embassy's won't apostille an out of the country document they didn't make. They will only provide something similar to a cert of the search negative result, actually it's you signing what amounts to an affidavit that you are single and signed in front of a notary which they then apostille and charge you generously for all of the aforementioned.

[Chris]

Hello all....again.......,
I have had some great responses to my questions. Thanks everyone  . Here's the big one: Is there any way to avoid Kiev concerning my Cert. of Non- Impediment? Having to travel there, then to my fiancees hometown to marry really throws a HUGE wrench in everything. Is this someting I can have taken care of at the Ukrainian Consolate in NYC?

Thank You!

I got mine Apostilled in the Legalisation Office at the British Embassy in London, and then got it all OK'd in my wife's city, never had to go to Kyiv for it. They probably have a similar service at the US Embassy in a city near you. Remember that it will require a translation into Ukrainian aswell, but you can get that done over there.

The US embassy's won't apostille an out of the country document they didn't make. They will only provide something similar to a cert of the search negative result, actually it's you signing what amounts to an affidavit that you are single and signed in front of a notary which they then apostille and charge you generously for all of the aforementioned.

It wasn't an out of country document in my case, the CoNI was issued by my local Registry Office, but then had to be Apostilled by the Legalisation Office at the British Embassy in London

[Paul]

Just for those who may not know, each country will be different: When getting married in Romania, I had to get a copy of my divorce papers apostilled (whatever) here in the state where I live (had to send my divorce papers to Albany, NY) and in Romania I had to get an affidavit from the U.S. embassy in Bucharest stating that I was free to marry (for an additional $50 USD  ).

In New York state the fee is $10.00 per Apostille or Certificate of Authentication, don't get scammed by the websites that charge up to $500 (was the highest I saw) to do it for you.