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Hu Kou
You will not need to get anything notarized here but your spouse/fiancée will. When you get married the first time either here or the Ming Zheng Ju is where the ceremony will take place, depending on the size of the municipality you are getting married in. In larger cities the local governments have set up separate departments where Chinese people get married to foreign persons.
The Hou Kou will take your spouse/fiancée's documents and have them all notarized for a fee. None of his/her documents need to be notarized for you to be able to get married but you will need all the documents notarized so he/she can get a U.S. Visa. So this is the place and the time to do it. Otherwise you will have to travel back here to take care of this step when working on the visa process.
The fee is usually around 300-500RMB per document and takes up to two days to complete. Your spouse/fiancée will have to take care of this step unless you speak Chinese.
On this site you will find these needed items: Chinese Visas, International Marriage
- K3 Visa Forms
- Why you need an Affidavit of Single Status.
- The difference between a Hukou and a Ming Zhen Ju.
- How to obtain a Police Report or Gold Seal Letter Visa.
- American government forms needed for K3 and K1 Visas.
- Visa Interview questions.
- What you need to bring to the K3 Visa interview at the Chinese Consulate.
- First hand accounts of people who have actually married in China and gone through the Visa interview process from start to finish.