i dont see an exact list of requirements for marriage documents, and their time sequence.

British citizen divorced in UK applies for legalization of documents at China embassy/consulate in U.K. in order to get married in China: 1) One properly filled-in and duly signed application form for legalization. 2) A Single Status Certificate obtained in the last 3 months from Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages and authenticated by the FCO and its duplicate. 3) The Decree issued by the Court of UK and authenticated in the last 3 months by FCO and its duplicate. The divorced in UK whose former spouse is a Chinese citizen shall apply to a competent court in China to have the Decree recognized after the legalization by this Embassy. The divorced from a non-Chinese citizen shall provide a certificate in relation to the nationality of the former spouse and the duplicate copy. 4) Proof of identity with photo (such as valid passport) and its duplicate. For your questions: 1) you need a Single Status Certificate in addition to Divorce papers2) the two documents (Single Status Certificate and Divoce papers) don't need to b stamped by Notary Public before going to Government for apostille. 3) you don't need an affidavit to be sworn as well. 4) they should be translatted before presenting to Chinese embassy. 5) the translations have to be notarized.