Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Registering your Marriage in Malaysia

My husband (Taiwanese) and I had registered our marriage in Taiwan and it is more like a re-registration in Malaysia (required to apply for Taiwan residence visa).

We planned to register in Taiwan first then re-register our marriage in Malaysia, as at the time registering in Malaysia requires my husband to reside in Malaysia for a period of time excluding the period of time required for the notice of our marriage. Hence, for convenience sake, we completed registration in Taiwan and return back to Malaysia.

Documents to prepare:
1. MyKad
2. Original Malaysian Passport and Foreign Passport of your spouse, and a copy of the page with your details of each and the page with the arrival date to Malaysia.
3. Passport size photo of each
4. Foreign Marriage certificate (Please have it (1) translated to English, (2) notarized and (3) authenticated by Taiwanese Foreign Affairs Department, you maybe do it in Malaysia if it is convenient to you)
5. 戶籍謄本 (prove of Nationality - translated, notarized and authenticated)

With all the documents required, you may just head to JPN in Putrajaya, and have some documents signed. It is advised that a confirmation of all the documents required are checked, translated, notarised or authenticated, as for us, we did not had our 戶籍謄本 done, and it was a nightmare.


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