Registration of Marriage

This mission is pleased to assist you to register your marriage under the Marriage Registration Ordinance of 1988

If one party is a Sri Lankan national, He/she can submit an application to register the marriage.

Conditions applicable

• Both parties should be 18 years old or above as at their last birthday.

• The parties should not have any kind of relationship prohibited in law.

• No party should have entered into any legal marriage which is valid at the time.

Required Documents

(Please submit 01 set of photocopies for supportive documents excluding Application/Forms)

1. Notice of Marriage (Please Click)
2. Declaration (Please Click)
3. Birth Certificates of both parties
4. Copies of Bio-Data Page and observations page of valid Passports of both Parties
5. Bachelor Certificate by both parties

• If he/she is a Sri Lankan, an affidavit should be given by his/her parents, siblings to the Consular Affairs Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Colombo 01 for authentication.(Please Click)
• If he/she is a non-Sri Lankan, this should be obtained from the relevant foreign government authority.

Procedure

• Marriage notice should be written in duplicate and handed over to the Consulate at least 14 days before the marriage.
• Marriage Notice will be displayed in the Notice board of Consulate for any objections for 14 days.
• If there are no objections marriage will be registered in the Consulate. Two witnesses should be accompanied along with photo identification.

Instructions

• Translations will not be accepted in lieu of originals.
• All photocopies should be on A4 size paper.

Payments