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Issuing a marriage certificate
The registry office issues documents and certified extracts from the marriage registers.
Upon request, civil status certificates must be issued to the persons to whom a register entry relates, as well as their spouses, life partners, ancestors and descendants. Other persons have a right to obtain civil status documents if they can demonstrate a legal interest.
The applicant requests the issuance of a civil status certificate, or certified extract from the register.
Spouses, life partners, ancestors, descendants or another person who can credibly demonstrate a legal interest are also eligible to apply.
After checking the eligibility, the registry office issues the certificate or the certified extract from the register.
You submit the application to the registry office that has subsequently certified the marriage concluded abroad in the marriage register it maintains.
- The applicant must be the person to whom the register entry relates.
- Spouses, life partners, ancestors, descendants or another person who can credibly demonstrate a legal interest are also eligible to apply.
- Proof of identity (identity card, passport, or suitable identity document) for application eligibility
- Proof of legal interest
Fee: 15,00 EURPayment in advance: NoIssuance of a marriage certificate
Fee: 7,50 EURPayment in advance: NoAny additional copy of the marriage certificate if requested at the same time as the first copy.
Depending on the individual case
- § 61-66 PStG (use)
- § 5 Abs. 5 PStG (deadlines)
- § 48 PStG
- § 50 PStG
Miscellaneous (depending on the municipality)
If the registry office rejects the application for the issuance of a marriage certificate, you can submit an application to the competent court to instruct the registry office to issue the marriage certificate.
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior and Sport
Source: Serviceportal Niedersachsen (Portalverbund des Bundes und der Länder)