Who can request the marriage certificate / extract / multilingual extract / full copy of the marriage certificate?
The marriage certificate can be requested by anyone, provided that they know the personal data of at least one of the two spouses, the marriage data and, provided that the marriage was registered in an Italian municipality.
The full copy of the marriage certificate, the marriage extract and the multilingual marriage extract, on the other hand, can be issued only to the person directly concerned, or to a relative, or in any case to a person who has a legally relevant interest. The full copy of the marriage certificate can be issued to anyone who has an interest, without motivation or special delegation, only after 70 years from the formation of the marriage certificate.
To have these documents you must be delegated by one of the two spouses, the delegation form will be sent by email after completing the order
To request a marriage certificate/extract/multilingual extract/full copy of the marriage certificate, you only need to fill out the form by entering the following information:
- Full name of the spouses (at least one of them);
- Date of birth of the spouses (at least one of them);
- Date of marriage celebration;
- Municipality and province where the marriage was celebrated.
What does the marriage certificate contain?
The data contained in the marriage certificate are:
- Name and Surname of the spouses;
- Date and place of birth of the spouses;
- Date of the marriage celebration;
- Place of wedding celebration.
The marriage certificate is the declaration of the public official in which it certifies the marriage event that took place between two physical subjects.
The document (marriage certificate) has value of truthfulness and regularity of the information contained therein as it is signed by the municipal official and has unlimited value throughout the national territory.
What does the marriage extract contain?
The data contained in the marriage certificate are:
- Name of both spouses;
- Surname of both spouses;
- Date of birth of the spouses;
- Wedding date;
- Place of wedding celebration;
- Information on the property regime chosen by husband and wife (communion/separation of property);
- Divorce;
What data does the multilingual extract contain?
The data contained in the multilingual marriage certificate are:
- Name of both spouses;
- Surname of both spouses;
- Date of birth of the spouses;
- Wedding date;
- Place of wedding celebration;
May not contain
- Information on the property regime chosen by husband and wife (communion/separation of assets);
- Divorce;
- Annulment
The only difference with the “Italian” marriage certificate is that the multilingual certificate is drawn up by the municipality according to a “standard” model, valid and recognized in all countries that have signed the Vienna Convention of '76, namely: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Germany, Croatia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey. It does not require translation.
NB In order to legalize the document, the Marriage Extract and Multilingual Marriage Extract can be apostilled by the Prefecture competent for the territory. If you want to have the document apostilled, simply select in the form "request with apostille" and the request will be sent directly to our systems.
What does the full copy of the marriage certificate contain?
The full copy of the marriage certificate is the photocopy of the original marriage certificate drawn up directly at the time of the wedding and sent to the civil registrar of the municipality of the marriage. The data contained in the full copy of the marriage certificate are:
- Personal details of the declarant (registrar who celebrated the marriage/ minister of worship who celebrated the marriage)
- General information on wedding witnesses;
- General information about the spouses;
- Residence of the spouses;
- Citizenship of spouses and witnesses;
- Assets chosen by the spouses;
- Date of publications posted in the town hall;
- Marriage authorization decree;
- the reading of articles 143, 144 and 147 of the civil code;
- The declaration made by the spouses of their desire to take each other as husband and wife;
- Place where the marriage was celebrated (church/town hall);
- Time at which the marriage was celebrated;
- Possible termination of marriage (divorce or annulment).
When to request a marriage certificate/extract/multilingual extract/full copy
To request a marriage certificate/extract/multilingual extract/full copy you need to:
in legal proceedings for separation/custody of minors, etc.;
requesting the marriage certificate/extract/multilingual extract/full copy is useful:
to get a mortgage;
whenever official certification of one's marital status is requested.
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