Marrying with international circumstances
When one or both of you is subject to immigration control, or documents come from abroad, the standard route changes. These pages explain how.
Marrying a foreign national in England and Wales
What changes when one of you is subject to immigration control: referred notices, the 70-day period, and the documents required.
Marrying a foreign national in England
How the notice process works when one or both of you is not a UK or Irish citizen, including immigration checks and extra documents.
What does 'subject to immigration control' mean for marriage?
What being subject to immigration control means for giving notice of marriage, and how it changes the notice route and waiting period.
What is a referred notice of marriage?
How the 70-day referred notice works under the marriage and civil partnership referral and investigation scheme, and what happens next.
Marrying on a fiance(e) visa
What a fiance visa lets you do for marriage in England and Wales, and how the notice process fits within its validity period.
Can you marry someone on a standard visitor visa?
Why a standard visitor visa is not intended for getting married in the UK, and what the fiance visa route is for instead.
Using overseas documents to give notice of marriage
How foreign birth certificates, divorce papers and other overseas documents are used at a UK notice appointment, and when translation is needed.
Will your overseas divorce be recognised so you can remarry?
Whether a divorce granted outside the UK will be accepted as evidence that you are free to marry in England or Wales.
Marrying in the UK when one of you lives abroad
How notice of marriage works when one partner lives in England or Wales and the other lives overseas.
What is a certificate of no impediment?
What a certificate of no impediment is, when you need one to marry abroad, and how to get one from a UK register office.
Marrying an EU citizen in England or Wales
How the standard marriage process applies when your partner is an EU citizen, and when immigration status checks come into play.
Do your documents need translating or an apostille?
When a certified translation is needed for foreign marriage documents, and when a country asks for an apostille as well.
How dual nationality affects getting married
What holding two nationalities means for giving notice of marriage in England and Wales, and which passport to use.
Will your overseas marriage be recognised in the UK?
When a marriage conducted abroad is recognised as valid in England and Wales, and what can affect that recognition.
Can you register a marriage that took place abroad?
Why a marriage that happened overseas is not re-registered in England and Wales, and how to evidence it here instead.
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