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Getting Married The Dominican Republic, with its beautiful landscapes and scenarios, is becoming more and more the chosen place for weddings. In this regard, resort hotels offer attractive wedding packages and are willing to assist you to complete the necessary paperwork. Marriage requirements • Marriage license in not required • You have to register to be married with the City Clerk (Oficialia del Estado Civil). They charge a nominal fee. • Submit the necessary paperwork to the Oficialía del Estado Civil: - Passports or Cédulas - Birth certificates - Single status affidavit translated by an official translator into Spanish at the Dominican Consulate where the document was issued. - Divorce certificate translated into Spanish by an official translator, if applicable, at the Dominican Consulate where the document was issued. • You need two witnesses with proper identification documents (passports or Cédulas) • People who have been divorced in the DR under the Special Divorces Law need to wait 24 hours prior to getting married. • The Justice of the Peace that performs Civil Ceremony will give you a document stating that the marriage took place. • Then, you request a marriage certificate from the "Oficial de Estado Civil" (City Clerk) that married you. • This marriage certificate is legal worldwide. Important If you or your spouse intent to have a name change or if you are thinking of applying for a visa at a foreign country; do have the marriage certificate validated at your consulate in the Dominican Republic. Check with your consulate's authorities to get further information on the process each country requires. However, consider that you may need a legal transcript of the marriage certificate that is issued in Spanish by an official legal translator authorized by the Supreme Court of Justice. This transcript will most likely have to be legalized by the Procurador General (Attorney General Office) at the Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Santo Domingo. This procedure could take up to a month. |
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