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Hi!I've just found this group. I posted a question a while ago as a new topic, but let me post it again here as I believe there will be more people who know about the case in Japan in this group.

Here is my question. I appologize in advance if the same or similar questions have been brought up here by someone else.

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I am Japanese living in Japan and my boyfriend is American living in the U.S. We are planning to get married in Japan in coming January. I would like to make sure that there is no problem for him to visit Japan with no visa and get married in Japan. He will be in Japan only for 12 days or so, and we will get married during his stay, then he will go back to the U.S and we will start CR-1 visa process.

As reading the US Embassy website, I am pretty sure it is no problem, but I've seen some people say "American citizen who wants to get married to Japanese citizen has to live in Japan at least for 6 months" in their blog or something, which made me a little nervous.

Does anyone know what the truth is? Any experience?

Also I learned that there is a part to be filled out the American citizen's living address in Japan on the marriage license (Affidavit of Competency to Marry) form which need to get notalized by US embassy before going to the city hall. Does anyone know if he can leave the part blank?

We are planing to go to the US embassy to get the form notalized as soon as they open in January, then I will translate it into Japanese, then we will go to the city hall of where I live to get married. We will get this process done within a few days during his stay in Japan.

Since this will be the first step of the long process we will take to get a visa, I would like to make sure we are doing right.

I will appreciate your advise.

Thank you!

Thank you for your reply. It might be a silly question, but what do DCF and DFC stand for?

My boyfriend will start filing I-130 after he goes back to the U.S. As a ealier step than I-130 filing, I would like to know if he need to live in Japan for at least 6 months to get married in Japan or he can just vist with no visa and get the marriage process done.

If he has to live in Japan for 6 months, it is impossible for us, so we have to find out other way...

Hello everyone! I have just registered this forum and this is my first posting. I appologize in advance if the same or similar questions have been already brought here by someone else.

I am Japanese living in Japan and my boyfriend is American living in the U.S. We are planning to get married in Japan in coming January. I would like to make sure that there is no problem for him to visit Japan with no visa and get married in Japan. He will be in Japan only for 12 days or so, and we will get married during his stay, then he will go back to the U.S and we will start CR-1 visa process.

As reading the US Embassy website, I am pretty sure it is no problem, but I've seen some people say "American citizen who wants to get married to Japanese citizen has to live in Japan at least for 6 months" in their blog or something, which made me a little nervous.

Does anyone know what the truth is? Any experience?

Also I learned that there is a part to be filled out the American citizen's living address in Japan on the marriage license (Affidavit of Competency to Marry) form which need to get notalized by US embassy before going to the city hall. Does anyone know if he can leave the part blank?

We are planing to go to the US embassy to get the form notalized as soon as they open in January, then I will translate it into Japanese, then we will go to the city hall of where I live to get married. We will get this process done within a few days during his stay in Japan.

Since this will be the first step of the long process we will take to get a visa, I would like to make sure we are doing right.

I will appreciate your advise.

Thank you!