The process of documents preparation for marriage registration
In the Dominican Republic and a Certificate of marriage:
Required documents to be taken from the country of departure:
1. Birth certificate of the groom, notarial certified copy or duplicate
2. Birth certificate of bride, notarial certified copy or duplicate
3. The certificate of divorce/change of name/death (in case you’ve changed the
surname because of the marriage or of the name change procedure), notarial
certified copy/duplicate
4. Statement of the marital status, notarized, which confirms that the groom is not
married
5. Statement on marital status, notarized, which confirms that the bride is not married
Further, all documents have to be apostilled by the Ministry of Justice in your city.
Important!
These documents will not be given back, so we kindly ask you to certify the notary copy of
your original documents (certificates), or get a duplicate at the Registry Office.
After obtaining an Apostille, the documents must be translated into Spanish, notarized and be
apostilled again.
Documents obtaining procedure
You need to visit a notary to get copies of birth certificates and other documents certified.
Also you make a Statement regarding your civil status (marital status) proving you are
currently not married.
Further, all documents must be apostilled at the Ministry of Justice in your city. After that, you
are going to a licensed translator or translation agency with all the documents, to get them
translated into Spanish. Next step is going back to the notary to have the translator's
signature assured. Afterwards, Ministry of Justice will apostille your translated documents.
Make a colored scan of the mentioned documents in high resolution and actual size
and send them by e-mail as soon as possible, preferably few months before the wedding.
Without these documents, Dominican Marriage Registry Office doesn't set the date and time
of the wedding ceremony.
Dominican Registry office sets the official fee of marriages registration for the foreigners
including Judge’s presence on the beach at RD $ 20,000 ($ 520).
Besides, you can select the date of the wedding ceremony, but Judge sets the time and it
cannot be changed.
After you provide us all the necessary documents, we legalize it in the Dominican Republic
and book the day of your ceremony.
After marriage registration, we obtain marriage certificate, legalize it at the Central Registry
office and apostille it in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Dominican Republic in Santo
Domingo.
Marriage certificate can be shipped to you in person via DHL if required.
The cost of these services are $ 960 (including Registry Office’s state fee).
There is also an option for simplified documents preparation.
Required documents to be taken from the country of departure:
1. Birth certificate of the groom, notarial certified copy or duplicate
2. Birth certificate of bride, notarial certified copy or duplicate
3. The certificate of divorce/change of name/death (in case you’ve changed the
surname because of the marriage or of the name change procedure), notarial
certified copy/duplicate
4. Statement of the marital status, notarized, which confirms that the groom is not
married
5. Statement on marital status, notarized, which confirms that the bride is not married
Further, all documents have to be apostilled by the Ministry of Justice in your city.
These documents will not be given back, so we kindly ask you to certify the notary copy of
your original documents (certificates), or get a duplicate at the Registry Office.
All the paperwork has to be translated into Spanish, although you are not required to notarize
or apostille it.
Attention: notarizing and apostilling translations in the country of departure are not
necessary!
Translation and certification of all the documents are conducted by a licensed translator directly
in the Dominican Republic, according to the requirements of current law.
PREREGISTRATION OF MARRIAGE IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Make a colored scan of the mentioned documents in high resolution and actual size
and send them by e-mail:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
International Passport of groom
International Passport of bride
Birth Certificate of the groom (notarized with Apostille)
Birth Certificate of the bride (notarized with Apostille)
The certificate of divorce / or change of name / of death if someone changed the
name because of marriage or of the name changes (notarized with Apostille)
6. Statement of the marital status, notarized, proving that the groom is not married
(notarized with Apostille)
7. Statement of the marital status, notarized, proving that the bride is not married
(notarized with Apostille)
All documents have to be apostilled by the Ministry of Justice in your city.
Paperwork has to be translated into Spanish, although you are not required to notarize or
apostille it.
We can assign a date for the official wedding in the Marriage Registry Office only after your
legit documents are received and approved by us
The cost for preparing a document (with Apostille) in the Dominican Republic is $ 100.
The regular documents’ set per couple consists of 4 (birth certificate of the bride/groom and
statements of marital status).
As a result, it is 960$ + 100$ for each document (times four, see above), so $960 + $400 +
cost symbolic ceremony of your choice.
Important Information:
- It takes time to set a date for the wedding
- Please send all documents in advance, as they have to be legalized in accordance
with the local law, besides we need to book the day of the ceremony for you,
considering that there is a line of pre-entry at the Marriage Registry office.
Afterwards, the exact date of the wedding is assigned. Time of the ceremony is set by
the Judge.
After all, the term for setting the day of your wedding will be considered from the moment you
pay the full amount for the paperwork and the fee for a legal wedding at the registry office.