Registry Office Question

Does anyone know a site that lists the Registry Offices that can take registrations from Non-EU citizens?  I've been looking on the Home Office site, but I am getting myself confused.  I think we would prefer to do it in Exeter, but I guess London will suffice. 

Also, we intend to live in Exeter for awhile, so if we register in London can we have the union in Exeter, or will it have to be in the same district?

Thanks

I may be misunderstanding your question because I thought any registration office would perform unions provided one person is resident in England.

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/civilpartnerships/givingnotice/Residency_requirements.asp  on the right is a search box for registery offices,

Hope this helps.

Does anyone know a site that lists the Registry Offices that can take registrations from Non-EU citizens?  I've been looking on the Home Office site, but I am getting myself confused.  I think we would prefer to do it in Exeter, but I guess London will suffice. 

Also, we intend to live in Exeter for awhile, so if we register in London can we have the union in Exeter, or will it have to be in the same district?

Thanks

heres the list of them (pdf file) http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/BirthsDeathsAndMarriages/Marriages/designated_registers.pdf
and heres the main site http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/BirthsDeathsAndMarriages/Marriages/non_eu.asp

I may be misunderstanding your question because I thought any registration office would perform unions provided one person is resident in England.

Use to be, but now it's only certain ones.  We had to register our intent in Bletchley/Milton Keynes even though we live in Leighton Buzzard.

Hmmm, I was thinking you had to register where you are resident, not where youre getting married? Should be interesting, if we move we'll be in wiltshire but want to get married in Bath register office.

Well, it looks like Exeter has a capable office, so that's cool.  It's very confusing.  From what I understand you have live in the register area for 7 days to file.  What if you were moving to an area that couldn't process American filers? 

*head starting to swim*

Well, it looks like Exeter has a capable office, so that's cool.  It's very confusing.  From what I understand you have live in the register area for 7 days to file.  What if you were moving to an area that couldn't process American filers? 

*head starting to swim*

that happened to me,fortantly the town that did was only a 30 minute train ride away

Well, it looks like Exeter has a capable office, so that's cool.  It's very confusing.  From what I understand you have live in the register area for 7 days to file.  What if you were moving to an area that couldn't process American filers? 

*head starting to swim*

Then you go to the closest one to where you live that does. 

Kat,
We registered in the Exeter office. We live in Berkshire, but were getting married in N. Devon.  My husband was a trooper, and checked it all out for us.  We weren't able to register in Barnstaple (closest registry office to where we were getting married) because they didn't take non-EU people, so they referred us to Exeter. 

We knew we had to have 7 or 8 days residency, so we went down on the Fri, stayed the week, and went to the registery office on Mon.  We had a note from the people we stayed with to state that we'd been there those days.

The process was really simple.  They asked us both questions, but we stayed in the room together.  They sent us the registry paper in the post, and we contacted the vicar who was going to perform our service to let her know we had all our paperwork.

I was really nervous, knowing that if we didn't get the registry docs, we couldn't go ahead with our planned wedding.  But it all worked out fine.  I'm sure you guys will have no problem, and they were really nice there. They are used to having non-EU people (and apparently, have loads of people who don't speak English well, so they love it when Americans come in).

Best of luck!

Thanks everyone for all the replies/advice.  I take great comfort in knowing that if I have a question, I certainly have a place to go with it.  You guys are great! 

Kat,
We registered in the Exeter office. We live in Berkshire, but were getting married in N. Devon.  My husband was a trooper, and checked it all out for us.  We weren't able to register in Barnstaple (closest registry office to where we were getting married) because they didn't take non-EU people, so they referred us to Exeter. 

We knew we had to have 7 or 8 days residency, so we went down on the Fri, stayed the week, and went to the registery office on Mon.  We had a note from the people we stayed with to state that we'd been there those days.

  Okay.  I am confused on this whole thing.  We were originally going to get married in Scotland, since the laws are a bit more relaxed there, but then decided to move to the Pershore register office since it's pretty and close to where his parents live.  This whole registering thing...aggh.  We'll have to register where we live even though the wedding is going to be in Pershore...right?  But if we live somewhere where there isn't one of those designated register offices...we have to go and stay in the same area as one that is designated to accept American applications for a week?  Arrrgh.  Registering my intent should not confuse me more than applying for the actual visa.