On the eve of the wedding, future spouses have many questions. For example, how to apply for a marriage. To do this, discuss with your chosen one the date of your future wedding.
Remember that from January 1, 2019, amendments to the Family Code of the Russian Federation begin to apply. Previously, applying for registration was allowed only at the place of registration. Under the new law, you can choose the date and time of the wedding yourself, and you can also choose any registry office in the Russian Federation. The application for marriage is submitted no more than 12 months before the wedding.
The transfer of the date of marriage is prohibited. However, in special cases (for example, in case of illness), the registry office staff can meet you. A wedding can be rescheduled only if more than 7 days are left before it.
What is good to know?
You can apply to several registry offices at the same time. Also, an application to the palace of marriage is allowed to be submitted an unlimited number of times until your marriage is registered. This is permitted by law, but remember that the state fee is paid for each application separately. There is the opportunity to submit such a declaration through the Internet on the website of the State Service, but only one, in one registry office.
If your application is refused to be accepted in another wedding palace, you should demand that the refusal be written and indicate the specific reason. Next, file a complaint in the name of the boss or go to court. The term for consideration of the complaint is approximately 5-10 days; the court will last about two months.
In most regions of the Russian Federation, marriage is permitted only from the age of 18. But in 20 regions of the Russian Federation, you can get married from the age of 14. This will require permission, which can be obtained from the administration of your locality. It is issued if the bride is pregnant.
Where to apply for a marriage?
You can submit an application in person at the registry office, or on the website of the State Service. In some cases, marriage is registered:
- Consulates of the Russian Federation in other countries.
- Local government bodies.
- Authorized by federal executive bodies.
To register a marriage, you will need:
- Together, fill out an application in connection with the marriage in form No. 7.
- If you are under 18 years old, you need permission from the local government.
- Pay the state fee - 350 rubles.
- Come to the registry office on the specified date and time. You need to have a passport with you.
- Get a state marriage registration certificate.
Earlier it was required to invite witnesses, but now this is not necessary. Signing will be necessary only to future spouses.
When can they refuse?
The list of reasons why your application for marriage may not be accepted:
- Future spouses are adoptive and adopted.
- One of the future spouses is forced to marry.
- Close relationship of the newlyweds.
- Applicants for marriage are already married.
- Age less than 18 years (for certain regions - less than 14 years).
- Disability of the bride or groom.
- Being in a registry office while intoxicated.
How can a ceremony be held?
When applying for a marriage, you should decide which ceremony you want. Options may be as follows:
- Simple: you need to come to the registry office on the specified day, sign and get stamps in passports and a certificate of registration of marriage. You will need approximately 10-15 minutes. Costs - 350 rubles for state duty upon application.
- Solemn: held on Saturdays. You should sign up for it in advance, since such a ceremony is the most popular. The receptionist reads the speech, the newlyweds sign and put on wedding rings. You will need from 30 to 60 minutes. The ceremony will play music. You can also hire a photographer (from 2017 it is allowed to invite your own specialist). Costs - about 5,000 rubles. An application to the Wedding Palace is best filed as early as possible so that there is a choice of a convenient date.
- Exit: outside the registry office (usually in a park / square / in nature). Beautiful design and live music. Such a ceremony will take about an hour. The cost in Moscow is from 25,000 to 100,000 rubles. It should be noted that you can sign up for such a ceremony only in about 30 registry offices throughout Russia.
- Combined: registration of marriage in the registry office and further re-enactment to celebrate your event. First, the newlyweds sign in the registry office. For this, a weekday is usually chosen so that there is no queue. Then, at the weekend, they organize a celebration and stage the registration. Speech, music, photographers work. Future spouses put on each other wedding rings and swear fidelity.
What gives the registry office?
After you apply for marriage at the registry office, after checking your documents, an employee of the institution will announce the date of your wedding, which will completely suit you. Do not forget this number or write it down somewhere. If you want to receive a document with your marriage registration information, contact the Wedding Palace.
State duty
According to article 333.26 of the tax code of the Russian Federation for 2019, in order to legitimize your relationship, you will need to pay a state fee of 350 rubles. You can also do all this online by filling out the application for marriage at the State Service and getting the opportunity to pay with a 30% discount. In this case, the state duty will be 245 rubles. Remember, the state fee must be paid to one of you, the second person does not need to pay.
When you pay the state fee (this can be done at any branch of Sberbank), take the receipt and your application for marriage according to the model to the registry office. The fee for paying a receipt for this service is 20 rubles. Part of the fee can not be paid if one of you has a benefit.
Basically, banks have details for paying a fee, but just in case, take this data from the registry office employees. In the event of a change in your decision regarding the application, money will not be returned.
Documents you will need
In addition to applying for a marriage, you need to provide a considerable package of documents. This includes:
- Passport. In unusual situations, they can take a sailor's passport or military ID.
- A marriage registration permit is required if one of the applicants is under 18 years old.
- A divorce document if one of you has already been in a family relationship. As well as other documents confirming the fact of divorce, if any.
- In the event that one of you is a citizen of another country, you need to provide a passport and translation of all necessary documents. This is required by all registry offices and wedding palaces upon application.
- If the divorce process took place in the same registry office where you are applying, in this case, a divorce document is not needed.
After the wedding, girls do not always take the name of the husband, only in 60% of cases. There is an opportunity to become the owner of a double surname, for example, Dimitrova-Zhukovskaya. You have only 30 days to replace all documents: passport, tax identification number, work book, driver’s license, documents for an apartment and other documents requiring replacement.
After marriage registration, information is recorded in a special book. After some time, you can pick up the marriage certificate.
How to fill out an application?
This document is filled in writing. A sample application for marriage can be taken at any registry office or downloaded on the official websites of these institutions. At the same time, the signatures and the date in them are affixed directly to the registry office.
To fill out the application for marriage correctly, you should carefully look at the fields. They include the following sections.
- Paragraph 1 - Name of spouse.
- Box 2 - date of birth.
- Point 3 - place of birth (exactly the same as in the passport).
- Column 4 - citizenship of future spouses.
- Paragraph 5 - nationality.
- Box 6 - place of residence, do not confuse with a residence permit.
- Box 7 - identity document, number, series of the document.
- Paragraph 8 - data of the divorce document, if such a document is available or indicate - is absent if you are entering into marriage for the first time.
At the bottom of the application, enter information about the intention to change the name. The statement will be valid if there are no errors.
In this form, one part is filled in by the bride, the other by the groom. The information in the application is filled out by everyone independently. After everything is correctly indicated, a special signature and seal are put on the form. And only after that they will tell you the date of registration.
Application Timeframes
The minimum period that must elapse from the moment of submitting an application to the Wedding Palace or registry office until the day of marriage registration is 30 days, the maximum period is increased to 12 months. Such a long period is given to the couple to ponder the correctness of their decision. The Gosuslug website provides an application for the year. The application for the wedding days chosen by the applicants can be accepted only if there is free time on that date.
The schedule and days of reception of citizens in each registry office vary. There are situations when a couple cannot or does not want to wait for the legal registration deadline, in such cases, marriage is registered out of turn.
Situations in which a marriage is registered in an expedited manner:
- pregnancy of the bride, confirmed by a doctor’s certificate;
- birth in a couple of a common child;
- severe illness of one of the future spouses;
- a business trip or military service also serves as the basis for registering a marriage with the permission of a registry office employee.
Application Days
A registry office is a government agency that is subject to labor law. Therefore, you can apply in accordance with a specific schedule. Basically, all registry offices accept applications for registration of relations from Monday to Friday, and Saturday and Sunday - days off. But there are institutions in which couples express their will only on certain days, for example, Tuesday and Thursday. It is better to clarify this question in advance. Usually, between the 25th and the 30th day of each month, a sanitary day falls. On this day, outsiders are not allowed into the building. Therefore, when applying to the Wedding Palace or the registry office, too, keep this in mind.
It is worth noting that now there are institutions that can work seven days a week, especially in the summer.
Applying without leaving your home. Is it possible?
For those who do not want to leave their homes, to wait in lines, since 2016 Moscow registry offices have been providing electronic date reservation service. All available dates are visible on the site. You just need to go to the site, select a number and get a coupon, which indicates the time. Then print out the coupon and come with it and a ready application by the indicated time.
The coupon is issued according to passport data, therefore it is not possible to transfer it to other persons. If you didn’t have time, couldn’t arrive at the indicated time, the reservation is canceled, the registration procedure in the queue will have to go through again.
Can I apply for this at the MFC?
The Multifunctional Center (MFC) is the second option where you can apply for a marriage. MFC is in every district of the city. The help is provided by consultants, the working hours are usually from 8:00 to 20:00.
15-30 minutes is the time period from receipt of the coupon to the application. It is proposed to pass the call waiting time by watching TV, sitting in a comfortable armchair or drinking a cup of invigorating coffee.
If you change your mind about getting married
If, in the time allotted by the state for considering the decision, one of the future spouses has changed their minds to register the relationship, each of them may withdraw his application. You must come to the registry office with a passport and refuse to register the marriage. No one will ask you for any reason or explanation.
If the application was filed through online resources, notify the registry office that you will not be at the appointed time, by phone.
How to apply to the registry office or the Wedding Palace in various situations? Below is a detailed description of each of the likely situations.
The newlyweds personally apply
Newlyweds need to know in advance the registry office address, reception days and the necessary package of documents, after which they must come together to the registry office on the reception day and submit an application. Wedding Palace No. 1 (the best in the city) can also be selected.
The bride submits an application without a groom
If the groom cannot come to the registry office, the bride herself can submit all the necessary documents. To do this, the groom must personally make a statement, assure him of a notary public, pass it on to the bride. If he does not have the opportunity to personally transmit the document, if he is serving a sentence, serving, or is on a business trip, then he can send everything by mail. If the groom is seriously ill or is in the hospital, a notary can be invited to the patient’s home or to the hospital to certify the application.
After receiving a statement certified by a notary from the groom, the bride provides both applications to the registry office.
Marriage with a foreigner
If one of the newlyweds is a foreigner, it is imperative to assure the application at the consulate. The wedding palace or the registry office has the right to require other documents from a foreign citizen, in particular, information about the absence of a marriage concluded at home.
During pregnancy
If the bride is pregnant, marriage can be registered on the day of application for a long gestation period and if there is a certificate of this fact. With a short time, you still have to wait for registration for about one month.
A certificate of pregnancy can be obtained at the antenatal clinic at the place of residence. It is issued on a form protected from forgery. The certificate must indicate: passport details of the bride, the name of the clinic in which the pregnancy was confirmed, information about the doctor, gestational age, seal of the clinic, date of issue of the certificate.
Apply online
To apply through the Internet, both newlyweds need to register on the State Services website. To do this, you need to go through a simple procedure on the portal: the groom fills in all the necessary items and sends an invitation to the bride, after which she completes filling out the form. When everything is full, you must pay the state fee with a credit card or mobile phone.
For those who file an application with the registry office via the Internet, a discount on the state duty of 30% is provided. So the amount of payment will be 245 rubles instead of 350.
After a short time, an e-mail indicated by the newlyweds at registration will receive a confirmation and an indication of the date and time of visiting the registry office, where you will need to submit all the necessary documents.
Very convenient service, but only adult couples can use it. Of course, there are pros and cons to it.
The advantages of this service are:
- time saving - no need to stand in line at the registry office;
- free choice of the necessary date and time;
- the possibility of submitting an application six months before registration;
- the choice of any registry office throughout Russia or the Wedding Palace;
- You can apply from anywhere in the world.
There are also negative aspects in it, which are as follows:
- the possibility of applying is available only to adults;
- filing an application no earlier than 45 days before registration;
- technical work of the service, in which it is not always possible to use the site.
Brief instructions to help newcomers to the Gosuslug website
How to use this resource correctly? After visiting the site, select the section "Registration of marriage", you can find it in the upper right corner.
Then click on the blue button “Get Service”, and then fill in the data on the newlyweds with the passport data.
Next, you need to fill out information about your place of residence. Indicate the registry office in which you want to hold your wedding ceremony. Further, in the calendar that appears on the screen, select the desired date and time at which you want to register.
You must fill in the column on previous marriages, or indicate that you were not previously married. It will also be necessary to indicate the number of children, their date of birth, nationality, education. Next on the site you need to send an invitation to the bride and click on the “Invite” button.
So, a brief briefing looks like this:
- Choose the date and time of your registration.
- Submit an application to the registry office.
- Pay the state fee.
- At the appointed date and time, register your marriage.
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