The marriage registration authority in charge will not accept the application in any of the following situations:

1. The parties have not registered their marriage with any of the marriage registration authorities in the Chinese mainland, or Chinese embassies or consulates;

2. The parties are both foreigners and request to register divorce with a marriage registration authority in the Chinese mainland;

3. After registering their marriage in the Chinese mainland, both parties have obtained foreign nationalities;

4. After registering their marriage in the Chinese mainland, any of the parties has adopted a different name or/and a new identity document of which the information is different from that recorded during the marriage registration, and the partner concerned cannot provide written proof of the reason(s) for the change(s);

5. One of the two parties cannot express his/her real intentions in Chinese, and there is no third-party individual or organization to translate his/her real intentions into Chinese.

In any of the aforementioned situations, the parties can go to a people's court for divorce.