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- A civil status document that a Moldovan citizen got abroad has legal force in Moldova only after it is transcribed into the Moldovan civil status register.
- The consular fee is 15 euro and it takes 30 calendar days. You apply at the Moldovan embassy or consulate in the country where you are.
- Declare the transcription within 6 months of coming back to Moldova, or of receiving the certificate, copy or extract from abroad.
- Documents made after 17 August 2001 must be transcribed. Older ones can be transcribed if you wish; otherwise they are accepted only with legalisation or an apostille, a translation and notarisation.
- The types that can be transcribed: birth, marriage, divorce, change of name and death documents.
Got married or had a baby abroad?
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Ask a questionHow to apply
- You do this
Submit the application
At the Moldovan embassy or consulate in the country where you are (list).
- You do this
Pay the consular fee
You pay the consular fee for the service.
- The office does this
Your application is examined
A consular officer examines your application.
- You do this
Receive the transcribed document
You are given the certificate that has been transcribed into the Moldovan register.
Required documents
- Your ID
- Civil status documentsyour marriage or divorce certificate, if you have one, and the birth certificate of at least one minor child (obligatory)
- IDs of the people concernedthe parents of the child (birth), the spouses (marriage), the divorced persons (divorce) and the deceased person (death)
- Marriage certificate of the child's parents
- Birth certificates of the child's parents
Fees and processing times
| Processing time | Cost |
|---|---|
| 30 calendar days The consular fee | 15 euro |
Do you need an apostille or a translation?
The transcription is based on a copy, extract or certificate made abroad and legalised as required (it depends on agreements between the states). A legalised document must be translated into Romanian and notarised or authenticated at a consulate.
No super-legalisation or apostille is needed for documents issued in: the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Multilingual extracts of birth, marriage and death records take legal effect without legalisation, apostille or translation when they are issued in: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cape Verde, Croatia, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey.
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Legal basis (7)
- Law no. 100/2001 on civil status documents
- Government Decision no. 966/2020 on the services provided by the Public Services Agency
- Government Decision no. 558/2007 approving the unified models of standard civil status forms
- Family Code no. 1316/2000
- Government Decision no. 757/2006 approving the unified model of civil status certificate forms
- Vienna Convention of 8 September 1976 on the issue of multilingual extracts of civil status records
- Minsk Convention of 22 January 1993 on legal assistance and legal relations in civil, family and criminal matters
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Source. This guide is written by us in plain words, based on the official service page on the government portal evo.gov.md. The amounts and deadlines are the ones on the official page.