Registration of marriage
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Ask a questionThe registration of marriage is the procedure by which the civil status body draws up the marriage record, on the basis of the marriage declaration. Marriage is a freely consented union between a man and a woman, concluded according to the provisions of the law, with the purpose of founding a family.
To conclude the marriage, the mutual, unvitiated consent, expressed personally and unconditionally by the persons who are marrying, is necessary, as well as reaching the marriageable age of 18. In well-justified cases, a reduction of the marriageable age by up to two years may be approved.
The application for a solemn marriage ceremony is submitted at the office of the civil status subdivision that has a ceremony hall.
On request, the territorial civil status subdivisions can register a marriage with a convicted person.
Documents issued abroad must be subject to the procedure of super-legalisation or apostille for the countries party to the Hague Convention of 1961 abolishing the requirement of legalisation for foreign public documents and must be accompanied by a notarially authenticated translation into Romanian, unless the international treaties to which the Republic of Moldova is a party provide otherwise.
When registering the marriage, each of the spouses, if they wish, may keep the name they bore before the marriage or take the name of either of them, or their name formed by joining.
Joining of names is not allowed when at least one of them is double. Partial joining of a compound name is possible.
The period for registering the marriage can be reduced at the request of the future spouses.
Prior appointment to request the services at the territorial subdivisions of the PSA is available here.
At a glance
- Processing time15 working days
- Cost1820 leiRegistration of marriage on the basis of the application submitted at the counter
- Processing timeOn the day of application
- Cost500-1500 lei
- Processing time10 working days
- Cost3640 leiRegistration of marriage on the basis of the application submitted at the counter
- Processing time5 working days
- Cost5460 leiRegistration of marriage on the basis of the application submitted at the counter
- Processing time10 working days
- Cost3640 leiRegistration of marriage with a convicted or arrested person (only on working days) (the fee does not include transport): on the basis of the application submitted at the counter.
- Processing timeOn the day of application
- Cost9100 leiService period: On the day of application Registration of marriage on the basis of the application submitted at the counter
- Processing time30 calendar days
- CostFree
- Processing time1 working day
- Cost7280 leiRegistration of marriage on the basis of the application submitted at the counter.
- Processing time30 calendar days
- Cost260 leiService period: 1 month - Registration of marriage on the basis of the application submitted at the counter - 260 MDL - Registration of marriage on the basis of the application submitted online - 230 MDL
- Processing timeOn the day of application
- CostFree
- Processing time30 working days
- Cost260 leiService period: 1 month Registration of marriage with a convicted or arrested person (only on working days) (the fee does not include transport): on the basis of the application submitted at the counter.
- Processing time15 working days
- Cost1820 leiRegistration of marriage with a convicted or arrested person (only on working days) (the fee does not include transport): on the basis of the application submitted at the counter.
- Provided byPublic Services AgencyPhone: 14909, +373 22 257 070
Fee details
Service period: Corresponding to the period for the registration of marriage
Organising solemn marriage ceremonies in the Ceremony Hall of the Public Services Agency:
- during working hours - 500 MDL
- outside working hours/on rest days/non-working holidays - 1500 MDL
Fee details
Registration of marriage: on the basis of the application submitted at the counter.
Registration of marriage with a convicted or arrested person (only on working days) (the fee does not include transport): on the basis of the application submitted at the counter.
Under the provisions of point 1, section 1 of annex no. 3 to Government Decision no. 966/2020 on the services provided by the Public Services Agency, civil status services are provided free of charge to the following categories of persons, citizens of the Republic of Moldova:
- persons with a severe, pronounced or medium disability;
- persons who, under the regulatory framework, have the status of war veteran;
- pensioners receiving old-age pensions under the conditions of Law no.156/1998 on the public pension system;
- participants in the clean-up after the Chernobyl accident;
- victims of human trafficking, on the basis of the request issued by the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection or by the territorial social assistance structures or by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, for the provision of services of issuing certificates or extracts from civil status records in their own name, needed for the issuance of the identity card or the temporary identity card;
- children left without parental care and children temporarily left without parental care;
- persons who are supported by the state, placed in a residential-type placement service or in a specialised social medical-sanitary institution;
- adults aged up to 25 years, who do not hold an identity card and who, on reaching the age of 18, had the status of children left without parental care, for the purpose of obtaining the birth certificate (later registration, reconstitution, transcription and modification of the birth record in their own name and through issuing the duplicate of the birth certificate).
The application for the provision of civil status services free of charge is examined within the maximum period (1 month) set for providing the service concerned.
Fee details
Service period: On the day set jointly with the declarants
- Registration of marriage in exceptional cases (danger to life)
Service period: Up to 3 working days
- Registration of marriage on the basis of a court decision
Service period: On the day set jointly with the penitentiary administration
- Registration of marriage with a convicted or arrested person (only on working days) (the fee does not include transport): in exceptional cases (danger to life)
How to apply
- Submit the application
The request can be submitted:
- online, using the Apply online button;
- at the office of any territorial civil status subdivision in each district, PSA;
- at the town hall of the locality;
- at the diplomatic missions and consular offices of the Republic of Moldova accredited abroad, MDOC.
- Pay for the service
The service can be paid:
- online, through MPay or the Payments module in EVO;
- at the counter, by POS terminal;
- through payment terminals;
- at bank branches.
- Get the extract
If the request was submitted online, the electronic extract from the marriage record will be available in the Personal Cabinet, in the My files block, of each of the spouses.
On request, the document can be printed on paper (A4).
The extract from the marriage record, printed on paper, is issued:
- at any civil status subdivision, indicated by the applicant in the application;
- at the diplomatic mission or consular office;
- at the address given by the applicant in the application in the country or abroad, through MDelivery.
Required documents
Proof of the termination of the previous marriage, if one of the future spouses has the civil status of divorced or widowed
The residence permit on the territory of the RM for the spouse who is a foreign citizen
The certificate of civil status for the spouse who is a foreign citizen
The birth certificates of the persons who wish to marry, if they are not held in the archive of the civil status body
The certificate of marital capacity of the spouse who is a foreign citizen, if their state of origin is a party to the CIEC Convention no. 20, signed in Munich on 5 September 1980
Legal basis
- Law no 100/2001 on civil status documents
- Family Code no. 1316/2000
- Government Decision no. 966/2020 on the services provided by the Public Services Agency
- Civil Code of the Republic of Moldova no. 1107/2002
- Law no.195/2024 on the protection of personal data
- Law no. 234/2021 on public services
- Constitution of the Republic of Moldova
- Government Decision no.333/2002 approving the Concept of the automated information system "State Population Register" and the Regulation on the State Population Register
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Ask a questionSource. The information comes from the official page “Înregistrarea căsătoriei”, provided by Public Services Agency, on the government portal evo.gov.md.
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