Marriage Registration

When applying to the Consular Section, persons of marriageable age must present:

1) Application for marriage ;

2) Identity documents or electronic documents from the digital document service of those entering into marriage (for verification);

3) When registering a marriage between a citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan and a foreigner, in addition to presenting the foreigner's identity document, a notarized translation of the document into Kazakh or Russian must be provided;

4) Certificates of marital capacity of those entering into marriage (not required if information about the applicants is available in the Civil Status Registration Information System);

5) Document confirming the termination of the previous marriage (if applicable): divorce certificate or court decision on the dissolution of marriage with a note of entry into force, death certificate of the spouse, or court decision declaring the marriage invalid, declaring one of the spouses deceased, or recognizing them as missing (for verification);

6) Original document confirming the payment of the consular fee;

7) If it is necessary to shorten or extend the marriage registration period established by the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan, an additional document confirming the reasons for shortening or extending the period must be provided: medical qualification commission certificate of pregnancy, health status certificate, copy of the child's birth certificate, documents confirming other special circumstances.

If persons below the marriageable age are entering into marriage, the following additional documents must be presented:

1) Application for the reduction of the marriageable age submitted by the parents or guardians (custodians) specifying the reasons for the necessity of reducing the marriageable age and attaching the necessary documents;;

2) Documents confirming the reasons for reducing the marriageable age (medical qualification commission certificate of pregnancy, copy of the child's birth certificate, copy of the birth certificate of the minor parent, copy of the marriage/divorce certificate of the minor's parents, identity documents of the minor's parents and the minors themselves);

3) Consent of the legal representatives of the persons entering into marriage;

4) Birth certificate of the minor parent, marriage/divorce certificate of the minor's parents, identity documents of the minor's parents and the minors themselves (for verification).

Documents issued or certified by a competent institution of a foreign state or by a specially authorized person within their competence and in the prescribed form, affixed with the official seal of the foreign state, are accepted only after undergoing a special certification procedure (legalization or apostille). This requirement for legalization/apostille does not apply to citizens of states that are parties to the Convention on Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Family, and Criminal Matters, signed in Minsk on January 22, 1993, and the Convention on Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Family, and Criminal Matters, signed in Chisinau on October 7, 2002.

• From the moment the document package is submitted to the foreign mission – after fifteen calendar days;

• Based on the joint application of the persons entering into marriage, if there are special circumstances (pregnancy, childbirth, immediate danger to the life of one of the parties, and other special circumstances) confirmed by the relevant documents, the Consul may schedule the marriage before the end of the fifteen calendar days or extend this period, but not more than fifteen calendar days based on a written application from the applicants;

• In the presence of special circumstances (pregnancy, childbirth, immediate danger to the life of one of the parties, and other special circumstances), state registration of the marriage, at the request of the persons entering into marriage, is carried out on the day the application is submitted, with mandatory indication of the reason and supporting documents.

• Fee is 30 euros

Document reception/issuance: from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM.

Reception days: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday.

Non-reception days: Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday, and public holidays of the Republic of Kazakhstan and France.

Phone : +33 3 88 69 75 13

e-mail : strasbourg@mfa.kz