Embaixada do Brasil
Sigurd Syrs gate 4 – 0244 Oslo – Noruega
 (+47) 22 54 07 30 – Fax: 22 44 39 64
Página web: www.brasil.no – Correio eletrônico: consular@brasil.no
Updated: January 2013
MARRIAGE REGISTRATION
The documentation must be advanced by mail.
Address: Sigurd Syrs gt 4, 0244 Oslo
After receiving the documentation by mail, it will be scheduled a date that the declarant attend
the Embassy, in possession of the original documents as required. We'll send you an email
with the date.
METHODS OF PAYMENT
All fees must be paid by bank transfer (account nr. 70320519126, DnB NOR Bank) or with
debit card, if in person.
Bank transfers from abroad: IBAN NO70 7032 0519 126, SWIFT: DNBANOKKXXX.
Please make sure that all taxes are included, so that the amount credited to our account
corresponds exactly to the consular fee.
NOTE: The name of petitioner and the nature of the services to be rendered shall be specified
in the payment sheet.
POST
Please attach the consular fee payment receipt and a self-addressed pre-paid envelope
(registered letters).
PLEASE SEND YOUR E-MAIL SO THAT WE CAN SCHEDULE YOUR VISIT
Brazilian citizens must attend the Embassy in person in order to have their marriage
registered. Documents may be delivered in person or sent by post. After having received the
documents, the Embassy will schedule an appointment.
Once the marriage has been registered at the Embassy, a Brazilian Certificate of Marriage
will be issued. This Certificate must be later transcribed at a Civil Registry Office in Brazil.
To register a marriage and obtain the certificate, the Brazilian spouse (wife or husband) must
present the following documents:
1. Proof of marriage:
1.1. Married in Norway: authenticated copy of the vigselattest.
1.2. Married in Iceland: authenticated copy of the hjónavígsluvottorð.
2. “Solicitação de Registro de Casamento” (Marriage Registration Application) form
dully filled in and signed.
3. Copy of the passport or ID card of the foreign spouse.
4. Copy of the passport or Brazilian ID card and CPF of the Brazilian spouse.
5. Copy of the birth certificates of both spouses which must include the names of both
parents.
6. Original certificate of name change “Bekreftelse på navnemelding”. In case of a
name change, a new passport should be issued.
Embaixada do Brasil
Sigurd Syrs gate 4 – 0244 Oslo – Noruega
 (+47) 22 54 07 30 – Fax: 22 44 39 64
Página web: www.brasil.no – Correio eletrônico: consular@brasil.no
7. If one of the parties has been previously married, it is necessary to produce a proof of
the legal dissolution of the previous marriage. This means, in the case of Brazilian
citizens divorced abroad, the divorce sentence homologated by the Supremo Tribunal
Federal, in Brazil. See Divorce.
8. The document “Ektepakt” (if it is the case).
IMPORTANT NOTICE ON NAME CHANGE IN BRAZIL:
In Brazil one is only allowed to change one’s surname if due to marriage or to divorce.
The given name (first name) can only be changed by judicial decision in Brazil. Brazilian
citizens who intend to change their surnames, due to marriage, must firstly proceed to the
change at the Norwegian Civil Register and ONLY AFTER request that the marriage and
change of name be registered in the Embassy of Brazil. Once has a marriage been
registered in this Embassy, there cannot be any later change of surnames. Any later
change shall be requested directly in Brazil, through a lawyer, in accordance to a judicial
decision.
Information on default property
The default property ruling system for marriages celebrated in Norway is partial property
ruling. If the spouses have chosen a different property ruling system, they must produce a
deed of prenuptial agreement (ektepakt) signed prior to the wedding at a notary public
(tinglyst) expressly stating the ruling system of their choice.
The default property ruling system for marriages celebrated in Iceland is community property
ruling. If the spouses have chosen a different property ruling system, they must produce a
deed of prenuptial agreement (kaupmáli) signed before the wedding. The spouses’ signatures
in the deed of prenuptial agreement must be confirmed by a registrar (lögbókandi or
sýslumaður), an attorney (hdl. or hrl.) or their sworn deputy assistants.
RE-ISSUANCE OF A MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE (ADDITIONAL COPIES)
A copy of the marriage certificate can be requested for marriages registered at this Embassy
only, providing that the certificate has not yet been transcribed at the Civil Registry in Brazil.
In case of the certificate has already been transcribed, the applicant must request it at the
Civil Registry in Brazil.
One should apply for an additional copy of marriage certificate in writing.
CONSULAR FEES
NOK 160
NOK 40 per every additional copy of Marriage Certificate
POST
The Brazilian spouse must attend the Embassy in person in order to sign the Register
Book and receive a Brazilian Marriage Certificate.
For an additional copy requested to be sent by post, please attach the consular fee payment
receipt and a self-addressed pre-paid envelope (registered letters).