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A marriage certificate is an official and legal document issued by the country's concerned authority, which signifies that two people have married each other.
It may be required for several reasons, including when one's spouse who is not a national needs to apply for residency in that country.
The types of documents requiring attestation are divided into 3 categories depending on their nature, shared characteristics, and the relevant government department that needs to be contacted to get them attested. They include:
Marriage certificates come under the category of non-educational/personal documents due to their nature and purpose.
Marriage certificate attestation requires the concerned party to submit their marriage certificate and all accompanying documents (mentioned in the next section) to the relevant and concerned government departments. These institutions include:
There are certain documents one needs to submit with their marriage certificate to be attested. They are:
All these original documents and one copy of each of them need to be submitted to the relevant government departments and institutions for attestation according to the process mentioned below.
Here is the most commonly followed method of marriage certificate attestation:
Step # 1
Depending on the country where the marriage certificate was issued, the issuing authority needs to be contacted for attesting the marriage certificate.
Step # 2
After the state-level government authority attests the marriage certificate, it is sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). Here, the officials verify the attestation by contacting the members of the state-level authority that attested the certificate.
Step # 3
The attested and verified marriage certificate is then submitted to the country's localized Embassy, which requested the attested marriage certificate.
Step # 4
The document is then sent to the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), which requested the marriage certificate attestation and the process are completed.
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