₦airaland Forum

dustydee:
calling the HC can be very frustrating and challenging. As someone said, the NHC has nothing to do with your wedding, unless you want Tinubu as your father of the day. The home office will let you know if they require anything from Nigeria. I give you my blessings
Happy married life.

Haha I really hope so lol. If Tinubu will donate a private jet we will invite him lol.
Thanks though, much appreciated.

dustydee:
Based on the information given to you above, I do not see why the high commission should be the one to give you the documentation when it is not a requirement to start with. You are getting married in the UK, they should tell you all that you need. If that includes a document from the Nigeria High commission (Which in this case it is likely not), then they will tell you how to get the documents. Please let us not be quick to disparage our own.

Believe me that is not the intent, however, it's only the Nigerian government I have interacted with where there's this level of obscurity in dealing with these sort of things. Even calling the HC telephone number, the staff who answered the call was responding like my call was disrupting their day lol. The information they gave was contradictory to what they had on the website and still incomplete.
All I need is answers, I avoid that Northumberland Ave. as much as I can.

Cyberknight:
Interesting. I stand corrected. I've heard of the no impediment to marry thing before that is meant to show that people are not committing bigamy by marrying someone while already married in their home countries, but not all countries require it and I think that in this case you will only need to get it from the High Commission if the Home Office requires it as part of its approval process.

In other words, no need to interface with the Nigerian High Commission unless and until the Home Office tells you to do so.

I'm of the same stance as you, but there's no official documentation from the consulate that outlines that fact. It's just sad that everytime you have to deal with Nigeria as a diasporan it's always a stressful situation.

Cyberknight:
What requirement to deal with the Nigerian HC regarding marriage are you referring to? There's none.
Are you referring to a passport name change post-nuptials?

No, if you check the website, there's this requirement listed. And to be honest it doesn't even say what the end goal of the process is. I have the approval from Home Office, I don't know what this Nigeria's business is for and their request is just absurd. There seems to be a similar process for malaysian consulate as well.

https://www.nigeriahc.org.uk/consular/#:~:text=Letters%20of%20non%2Dimpediment%20are,of%20the%20requirements%20stated%20above.


https://nigeria.org.my/consular/

Hello everyone.

I need some advice from anyone with knowlege on how to go about getting married in the UK. My partner is a Brit and we're getting married early next year. All through my search, the only requirement was giving notice at the local registry and via HO, but only recently realised I have to deal with the Nigerian consulate as well.

In the typical naija fashion, the information is not clear on the website. I've been unable to reach them via phone and when I finally managed to speak with someone the lines was so bad.

I would appreciate anyone with knowlege about the process help me with the details.

Thanks.