But our embassies don’t deliver marriage certificates if we got married outside of our countries.. only notifications of marriage once we report it.
I have given the immigration every other documents, including of course the marriage papers we got in the Japanese city hall during the marriage.
They made it clear I needed the marriage certificate from our respective embassies. I have no idea what to do. My wife is on a work visa and I’m on a tokutei katsuso visa.
Would appreciate any help I can get.
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What’s the difference between a “marriage certificate” and “notification of marriage”?
Couldn’t you give them the latter and tell them that’s what your embassy provided?
You give them what your embassy gave you. Bureaucrats are a pain in the ass sometimes, “give us this form” they say, “give us that form”—but different countries do things in different ways, so you give them what you’ve got and tell them to make do.