Marriage Certificate Attestation & Apostille
What is Marriage Certificate Attestation & Apostille?
- Combined handling of the marriage certificate alongside a name change affidavit when your passport name differs from your certificate name.
- Clear routing based on your destination’s Hague Convention status, since this determines the entire chain length for this document type.
- Fast processing for the UAE dependent-visa use case, our highest-volume scenario for marriage certificate attestation.
Why is Marriage Certificate Apostille/Attestation Required?
Notary Initial local notarization of the certificate.
MEA Attestation Ministry of External Affairs attestation.
Embassy or Apostille Either destination embassy attestation (UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman) or MEA apostille (Canada, Germany, other Hague countries) — whichever applies to your destination.
5-10 working days for embassy-bound documents; 3-6 working days for apostille-bound documents.
UAE-specific notes Marriage certificates for UAE dependent visas need the full chain including the final MOFA stage — see UAE Marriage Certificate Attestation for the UAE-specific sequence.
Apostille-country notes For Canada and Germany, a single MEA apostille is sufficient.
Documents Required for Marriage Certificate Apostille/Attestation
These Hague Convention member countries accept apostilled marriage certificates for various purposes
These non-Hague Convention countries require embassy attestation for marriage certificates
- Combined handling of the marriage certificate alongside a name change affidavit when your passport name differs from your certificate name — a genuinely common pairing
- Clear routing based on your destination’s Hague Convention status, since this determines the entire chain length for this document type
- Fast processing for the UAE dependent-visa use case, our highest-volume scenario for marriage certificate attestation