Marriage is one of the most important and memorable stages in a person’s life. In addition to the preparations for the wedding, the future spouses have questions about how to arrange marriage registration, what documents to prepare, where to go and what the result will be. The answers to these questions are collected in this material.
If you do not want to spend time reading all the material, we have prepared for you a supporting table covering all the main points of the article.
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Where to apply
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CRO (CSRO)
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eGov.kz portal – online service
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Who can apply
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All couples who have reached the age of 18
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Couples who have reached the age of 18, entering into marriage for the first time, and having no children (citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan)
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Required documents
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– Application;
– IDs of both applicants;
– Receipt of payment of state duty;
– Certificate of divorce, if any of the applicants remarry;
– Birth certificate of children, if any;
– Foreigners additionally provide documents proving their identity and certificate of marital legal capacity (legalized or apostilled by an authorized body).
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Availability of electronic signature and registration on the portal;
No documents required.
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Service cost
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1 MCI
(payable at the cash desk of any bank)
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1 MCI
(paid online by card of any bank)
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Submission dates
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One month before the date of registration (the day of a receipt is not included into the term of public service provision)
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One month before the date of registration (the day of a receipt is not included into the term of public service provision)
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Result
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Presentation of marriage certificate on the appointed date in the CRO
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Presentation of marriage certificate on the appointed date in the CRO
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The table shows the difference between regular (offline) and online application for registration of marriage. Now we will focus on each item in more detail.
According to the Code “On Marriage (Matrimony) and Family”, marriage is an equal union between a man and a woman, entered into with the free and full consent of the parties in accordance with the law of the Republic of Kazakhstan, with the aim of creating a family, giving rise to property and personal non-property rights and obligations between spouses.
Conditions for registration of marriage
The full consent of the man and woman entering into marriage, and their reaching the marriageable age, i.e. 18 years old.
No marriage is allowed between:
- persons of the same sex (gender);
- persons, one of whom is already in another marriage;
- close relatives;
- adoptive parents and adopted children;
- persons, at least one of whom is declared incompetent due to mental illness or dementia by a court decision, which entered into legal force.
Where to apply
According to the Code, the state registration of a marriage is made by the registration authorities on the basis of a joint written application.
Future spouses must come to the registering authority together.
The registering authority is a local executive body that carries out state registration of acts of civil status, in common people called CRO or a civil registry office.
In addition, if a couple gets married for the first time, and they do not have children, then they can send an electronic application for marriage registration via the online services of the e-government portal.For this, it is necessary to have an EDS for both applicants and their registration on the eGov.kz portal. This method is convenient when, for example, future spouses are not in the same city or for another reason cannot come to CRO (CSRO) together.
Required documents
Those who marry for the first time and do not have children, provide:
- application (filled in CRO);
- IDs of both applicants;
- receipt of payment of state duty (1 MCI).
When submitting an online application, the submission of documents is not required - all information is automatically downloaded from information systems. Details of the online application we will describe at the end of the material.
Those who remarry additionally provide the originals of the certificate of divorce. If there are joint children, it is also necessary to provide their birth certificates.
Foreigners additionally represent:
- Certificate of marriage legal capacity.
- A foreigner residing permanently in the Republic of Kazakhstan shall present a residence permit for an alien in the Republic of Kazakhstan. A foreigner staying temporarily in the Republic of Kazakhstan shall submit a document issued by the internal affairs body of the Republic of Kazakhstan authorizing temporary residence in the Republic of Kazakhstan. A stateless person who permanently resides in the Republic of Kazakhstan shall present a certificate of a stateless person with a note from the bodies of internal affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan on registration at the place of residence. A stateless person temporarily staying in the Republic of Kazakhstan shall present a document proving his identity, issued by the competent authorities of the country of his residence and registered with the internal affairs bodies of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Along with the presentation of identity documents, they provide a notarized translation of their text in the state or Russian language.
- If necessary, permission for marriage from the competent authority of the state of which he is a citizen.
- If it is necessary to shorten or extend the period for registration of a marriage established by law, an additional document shall be submitted confirming the grounds for the reduction or extension of the period: certificate of the medical and qualification commission on pregnancy, a certificate of health, documents confirming other special circumstances.
All documents issued by authorized bodies of foreign states must be legalized or apostilled by the country where the document was issued.
Application Deadline
An application for marriage is submitted to the registering authority one month before the state registration of the marriage. Accordingly, the state registration of marriage is made upon expiration of a month from the date of filing a joint application.
The term begins on the day after the submission of the application and expires on the corresponding date of the next month. If this number falls on a non-working day, then the next working day is considered the expiration date.
Choosing the right date for submitting an application, in which the date of registration falls exactly on a predetermined wedding day - an important point that requires special attention. There are rare cases when, due to lack of awareness or carelessness, future spouses find discrepancies in dates, which may entail some problems.
To protect yourself and prevent such cases, we recommend that you carefully calculate the dates, and if in doubt, consult the representatives of the CRO, in which you plan to register the marriage.
If there are valid reasons, registration may take place before the expiration of the month, or this period may be extended, but not more than a month.
Also, 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 marriage at the request of the persons entering into marriage is made on the day of filing the application with the obligatory indication of the reason and supporting documents.
Marriage Registration Certificate
A certificate of marriage is issued to spouses on the day of state registration of marriage at the place of its conclusion. If necessary, a certificate may be issued to each spouse.
Note that the exact time of issuance of the certificate and the condition for carrying out this procedure in a solemn atmosphere are discussed in advance at the time of application.
Marriage registration of citizens of Kazakhstan with foreigners
Marriage registration between a citizen of Kazakhstan and a foreigner is carried out according to the general rules in the CRO or in a diplomatic mission, a consular office of a foreign state, the citizen of which is a person who wants to get married.
The procedure for registration of marriage with foreigners is described in detail in a separate article.
Learn more about filing an online marriage registration application
To use the online service, you need to receive a digital signature and register on the portal. You can learn more about this in the article “For the first time on the portal”.
We remind that only those who marry for the first time and do not have children can register a marriage online.
Log in to the portal and go to the online service page , which is located in the “Marital Status” subsection of the “Family” section and get familiar with the procedure for rendering public services.
Clicking on the button “Order online service” will take you to the electronic application page. It is necessary to double-check and fill in personal information, indicate the future spouse's IIN, indicate the CRO, designate who will pay the state duty, and sign with the EDS.
Payment of state duty is carried out in the usual way of online money transfer from the card of any bank. The size of state duty – 1 MCI. To make a payment, you must specify the tax authority and PPC 910 (General established procedure).
After you fill out the application for its part, it will go to confirm the future spouse. He/she needs to log in to the portal, find an application in the eGov Personal Account, fill it in, pay the state duty if it has not been paid before, and sign with an EDS.
The application can wait for confirmation no more than 48 hours, then it will be canceled.
The result of the service will be a notice of receipt of the application, the date and place of registration of marriage, or the status of “Registration denied”.
Upon successful receipt of the application, the future spouses should come together with the registering authority at the specified date and time, taking with them the identity cards and a printed electronic check.
