Thank you Kelly and others

Submitted by CherylC (United Kingdom), Jul 10, 2008 at 14:31

Hi,

Kelly - I just wanted to say thank you as that is exactly the type of advice I was asking for.

Luckily I have been talking to a lady I met through work who has just been married abroad and she is meeting me with some papers to go over what is needed as she had quite a few problems and had to constantly return to the country she was marrying in - although i think that as she has been married twice before and her boyfriend was sooooo much younger than her, i guess people assumed it must have been for business and not love, i don't know her well enough to form an opinion so will just assume she did it for the right reasons.

I am going to Egypt for 1 week in September, but am now wondering how much i can get done in a week as well as have some much needed rest!!!! So which bit takes a month/2 weeks? Is it the bit where we get the liscence to get married - and am i right in thinking that once we get the liscence - we have to marry within a month? I'm just wanting to work out my holidays at work and childcare/travel arrangements in order to get it done in as few trips to egypt as possible - i can't wait to go for holidays but this won't be that!

I would really appreciate any other information you can give and if you can recommend any good services like the translators/solicitors in egypt it would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks again for your help and how refreshing to read a successfull relationship when some people appear sinister at the thought of a relationship with a human but i feel they have a sinister relationship with chat forums and website in general and should maybe give real life a chance and they may even experience some happiness, as if nothing else, if i am being taken for a complete idiot as some people have expressed then at least i've had the best year in a relationship that i've had in the whole of my dating life (nearly 20yrs) and the good memories i do have with my egyptian partner are priceless!!!!!

Good luck and i wish you and your husband a healthy and happy future

Cheryl x

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