Is it possible to register a marriage in another city other than the place of registration?

What to consider before submitting your application

Starting from 2021, newlyweds have the right to submit an application for registration at the registry office of any city, regardless of their place of registration. To do this, a joint application is written (F 7) and the state fee is paid. At least one month is given before marriage registration. There is no need to return to your hometown. A few simple tips will help you get through this stage painlessly.

1. Select the branch where you would like to register your marriage. Receive details for paying the fee. This can be done at the Savings Bank, in any of its branches. The possibility of paying via the Internet is not excluded, this is especially convenient for clients of the specified bank.
2. Please contact the selected Civil Registry Office with your personal documents and payment receipt. Provide documents and write an application in the form provided by employees.
3. You can complete your application at home by simply downloading the form. This will save a lot of time.
4. The employee can only inform you of the desired registration date. It cannot occur earlier than 30 days after submitting the application.
5. After agreeing on all important points, the employee will inform you of the date and time of registration of the barracks.

Registration can be carried out on any working day. If this is a special event, it is better to schedule it on Friday or Saturday. All that remains is to appear on the appointed day and certify with your signatures your free will to enter into marriage.

How to sign without a residence permit?

Citizens who decide to legally formalize their relationship need to collect a number of documents and contact the registry office. This should be done approximately 1-2 months before the planned wedding date. A civil registry office employee, after examining the submitted documents, may refuse to enter into a marriage. The reason for this may be the following circumstances:

• one of the parties is already legally married;
• the future newlyweds are closely related;
• one of the parties is incapacitated due to mental disorders;
• the expression of consent to marriage was made under duress;
• one of the parties has not reached the age of majority (except for good reasons: pregnancy, having a child together, a real threat to life, etc.).

Among the possible reasons for refusal, there is no clause indicating the need for registration in a particular entity. Thus, it is possible to register a marriage without registration. If the civil registry office employee refuses to accept the application, then you can file an application against him in court and demand moral damages.

Required documents

In order not to waste precious time, it is better to prepare documents in advance. Originals and photocopies will be required:

• passports;
• registration application;
• a receipt from Sberbank confirming payment of the state duty (350 rubles);
• a notarized agreement from the parents (if one of the newlyweds is a minor);
• divorce certificate (if the newlyweds or one of them is divorced).

The application must be completed carefully. Any mistakes are unacceptable. I have often heard complaints from my clients that civil registry office employees in foreign cities are not very welcoming to such newlyweds. Under all sorts of pretexts, they try to send them to their hometown, refusing to accept their application and further registration. This is a clear violation of civil law, which provides for various penalties. I don’t want to believe that such employees are not notified that they are obliged to register the marriage of any citizen of the Russian Federation. Even if one of the future spouses is a foreign citizen, there should be no refusal.

Most often, such situations arise in the capital. Newlyweds ask the question: is it possible to register a marriage in another city other than their place of registration and in this particular registry office. And irresponsible employees send them away and force them to first do a temporary registration. If such a situation arises, it is necessary to ensure that the employee imposes a resolution on the application and with this document you can safely go to court at the location of the registry office. There can be no exceptions. The newlyweds should be registered where they wish to do so.

Is it possible to register a marriage union in a city where it is not registered?

The answer to the question posed is clearly positive. Moreover, this fact has its own legal justification. So, in Art. 25 of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation “On Acts of Civil Status” it is written that registration of family relationships can be carried out by any branch of the registry office in Russia at the choice of future spouses (we told you more about where in the Russian Federation you can register relationships, we told here).

At the same time, this norm does not mention any connection to the place of registration of the applicants.

Thus, young people can apply for marriage in any city in the Russian Federation. The main thing is to collect the necessary package of documents and pay the state fee.

Where to marry a foreigner

There are some restrictions for registering marriages with foreigners. It is not always fashionable to do this at the registry office, since there are special departments that are allowed to do this. For example, in Moscow, Wedding Palace 4 has the right to register marriages with foreigners. In the near future, such permission will be issued to many other registry offices.

You can register marriages with foreigners from CIS countries at any branches you like. All refusals are a gross violation of Russian civil legislation.

Marriage registration outside the country

Which registry office can you apply for marriage registration while living outside the country?

State registration of persons living outside the territory of the Russian Federation is carried out by the country's consular office (Article 157 of the RF IC), which is endowed with all rights.

The laws of the country in which the wedding is taking place are taken into account. Unions are recognized as valid on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Please note: even if a union concluded on the territory of another state between citizens of the Russian Federation, foreigners, the Russian Federation/foreigner does not comply with Russian legislation according to a number of criteria, it will still be recognized on the territory of the Russian Federation.

Questions you might want to know about

I am often asked not only about filing an application in another city, but also about what to do if one of the future spouses is absent and can only come for the painting. Is it really necessary to come several times for this? What if the future newlywed is abroad? The cost of such travel, just for the sake of filing an application, significantly reduces pre-wedding financial reserves.

This is where new technologies come to the rescue. You can submit an application from any other city, simply using the Internet. It’s not so easy that the government services portal began to function, where you can download and fill out an application. If this is done through such a service, then you will not need to come to another city until the marriage registration.

Thus, the application can be submitted from anywhere. But marriage registration and issuance of a certificate are carried out only in a specific department. Exactly where the newlyweds chose.

Important! A lost registration certificate can only be restored in the department where the marriage was officially registered.

If lost, you must contact the department with a corresponding application. If this is difficult to do, an official request is sent by registered mail. But you will have to come to get a duplicate. This is not very convenient and people often complain. Therefore, there is hope that this issue will be resolved positively in the near future. After an official request and confirmation, any other registry office will be able to issue a duplicate. But this is still under consideration.

general information

So, how long is temporary registration valid for? “Registration Rules...” approved by Government Decree No. 713 require registration of temporary registration for a period of 1 month to 5 years .

What is the minimum period of temporary registration for citizens of the Russian Federation? Some passport office employees adhere to the rule of registering at the place of stay for a period of at least 3 months. Such a demand is not legal.

If a citizen still needs a registration period of less than 3 months , you can require FMS employees to issue just such a registration.

Often such registration is necessary when staying in a hotel, sanatorium and other similar places. Special employees who can be contacted to carry out the procedure are most often responsible for registering with them.

A citizen is registered for a certain period (for a month, a year, three or 5 years) in accordance with a personal application and consent of the owner of the premises .

If registration is carried out in a hotel, boarding house, medical institution and other similar premises, the period is limited to the period of validity of the voucher, sanatorium card or other document on the basis of which check-in was made.

If the temporary registration is based on a notarized lease agreement or gratuitous use of residential premises, the period coincides with the validity period of this document. In this case, the period can be extended only with the personal consent of the owner, subject to his presence during the procedure.

What is the validity period of a temporary registration, that is, the maximum period of temporary registration at the place of stay? Many owners and citizens, wanting to save themselves from additional hassle, try to immediately apply for temporary registration for a longer period .

Deregistration is carried out automatically upon the departure of citizens or upon expiration of the Certificate of Registration. In this case, no action is required on the part of the registered person.

If necessary, upon early departure of the registered person from the place of temporary stay, you can submit a simple written application about the expiration of the registration period and deregistration.

An application for termination of the period can be submitted in person, sent by mail or posted on the State Services website. FMS employees will enter the necessary information into the internal documents of the organization, and the document will be canceled .

The owner of the premises can also terminate the temporary registration before the end of the period . He can do this at any time, regardless of the wishes of the person registered in his living space.

Find out on our website how to temporarily register a child, including a newborn.

What to do if the registry office refuses to accept an application

Any refusal by employees is a violation of the civil code. Registration at the place of registration is not required for both spouses. Any references from employees that they know nothing about this are lies. Everyone has been officially warned about this for a long time.

Attention! The fact of refusal must be recorded. Demand that this be written on the application.

The application does not have to be taken to the registry office. The form is standard and can be downloaded on the government services website. Bring the completed documents along with the documents to the registration department. In case of refusal, require the employee to write the reason for the refusal on the application. And this is already an official document for filing a claim in court.

If the actions of the newlyweds are exactly like this, the employee usually backs down and accepts the statement. Any citizen of the Russian Federation has the right to register a marriage in the place where he sees fit. No one has the right to interfere with this, much less refuse to accept an application.

Even the established period of one month can be changed if important prerequisites exist. Most often this is associated with the birth of a child. In this case, the employee is obliged not only to accept the application, but also to change the registration date. For example, this could happen in a week. In rare cases, a marriage is registered on the day the newlyweds apply.

What is marriage

Marriage in Russia should be considered an equal union of a man and a woman, registered by state authorities and created for the purpose of creating a common family. The legislator considers marriage relations only as a union concluded in state bodies - cohabitation of persons, even if they wish to start a family, is not recognized as marriage and does not give rise to any legal relations between such persons.

Marriage, by virtue of current legislation in Russia:

• creates legal ties between spouses, making them members of the family: allowing spouses to inherit from each other, assigning personal property and non-property responsibilities to them, requiring in some cases care for each other and maintenance in case of illness or financial problems;
• is a voluntary and equal union, that is, it is concluded by mutual, freely expressed consent of both spouses and assumes the presence of equal rights and obligations;
• is a union between a man and a woman - same-sex family unions are not recognized as marriage;
• can only be concluded between persons who have reached the age of marriage - 18, and in some cases 16 years or even less.

The article “Marriage” will tell you more about this.

Situations preventing registration

Problems with registration outside the place of registration are excluded. But there are situations on the basis of which you can receive an official refusal. All of them are registered in the Civil Code. It can be:

• one of the newlyweds is already married;
• marriage to an incapacitated person;
• one of the newlyweds is in a state of alcoholic or drug intoxication;
• people getting married are close relatives.

The situations are not so much prohibited by law as they provide for the protection of moral and ethical standards. Marriages between close relatives are no exception in recent times. This is a dangerous situation that increases the risk of having defective offspring.

Nuances of an official wedding

The first step is submitting an application

In addition to the issue of registration, potential newlyweds are also concerned about other nuances of an official wedding. For the benefit of the readers of our resource, let’s look at all the intricacies of registering a marriage on the territory of the Russian Federation in the “Answer – Question” format. Well, let's get down to analyzing the features of an official wedding.

In what order are solemn and non- solemn marriage registration ceremonies carried out?

It all depends on the rules established in the registry office where the application was submitted. In some organizations, solemn and non-ceremonial wedding ceremonies are held without division, while in others there are divisions by day, for example, celebrations are organized on Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays, and “quiet” marriage registrations are organized on other working days. The exact procedure for marriages regarding this issue should be found out in the registry office department where you applied.

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The marriage process is exactly the same as with adults, but with some features. So, in order to register a marriage with the participation of a minor, you must:

• firstly, that this person must be at least 16 years old (with the exception of the bride’s pregnancy - in such a situation, even 14-year-old citizens are allowed to register marriages);
• and secondly, obtain written permission to conduct the marriage procedure from official representatives of the minor and the guardianship and trusteeship authorities at the place of residence (these papers are provided to the registry office when submitting the application).

Otherwise, marriage with a minor citizen has no nuances.

Is it possible to legally reduce the wait to get married after filing documents?

Marriage is an obligation both to each other and to the state

Yes, it's possible. The main thing for such a reduction in terms is the presence of good reasons for early marriage. Most often, a reduction in terms occurs due to the bride's advanced pregnancy.

If this circumstance exists, the registry office undertakes, upon application of the young couple and the submission of such a certificate from the hospital confirming the fact of pregnancy, to “sign up” citizens at least the next day after submitting the application.

Also, if the condition of the pregnant bride sharply deteriorates and she is transported to the hospital on the day of the wedding, the registry office employee concluding the marriage can conduct it outside the walls of the government agency, and in the hospital, again, at the request of the young couple.

When is it not possible to officially register a marriage?

It is impossible to register a marriage in the Civil Registry Office of the Russian Federation if:

• persons wishing to get married - close relatives, one of them is married, adoptive parents and adopted children, one of them is declared incompetent due to a mental disorder;
• persons wishing to get married did not provide the required documentation to the registry office employees;
• persons wishing to get married, or at least one of them cannot get married due to age (marriages can be registered from the age of 18, except for the circumstances described earlier).

What are the legal consequences of formal marriage?

Registration of a marriage between a citizen and a citizen of the Russian Federation gives them the right or obliges them to:

1. jointly acquire property;
2. register children into your family;
3. support each other financially;
4. comply with all provisions of the Family Code of the Russian Federation relating to marriage;
5. dissolve the marriage.

This concludes perhaps the most important information on today’s topic. We hope that the material presented above has answered your questions. Good luck with your marriage registration!

The video will show you how to submit an application to the Civil Registry Office through the State Services website:

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