How to plan a wedding date without visiting the local registry office and saving time? How to ensure that you are accepted without waiting in line and made an appointment for a specific date and time? How to organize an “absentia” verification of documents by civil registry office employees? In this article you will find detailed step-by-step instructions on how to correctly submit an application for marriage registration online from any place where there is Internet access.
Wedding via the Internet is a concept of modern times. Newlyweds and mature people have already appreciated this innovation. According to statistics, already every 20 couples in Moscow submit an application for marriage registration through web channels. It's only the beginning? In the meantime, let’s try to evaluate the main advantages and disadvantages of this nationally significant action.
Advantages of submitting an application to the registry office online
- Availability. An undeniable advantage is that almost every citizen of the Russian Federation has a PC and Internet access. Universal computerization and Wi-Fi networks make it possible to quickly and remotely perform any significant action in the life of an adult.
- Mobility. Thanks to government services, you can now apply for a formal marriage registration from anywhere in the world. For example, basking under the hot rays of the sun in the Maldives.
- Freedom of choice. When submitting an application electronically, a citizen of the Russian Federation independently selects the date, the registry office office or the Wedding Palace where they plan to register the wedding, and also indicates the specific time when the getting married couples and their guests will “arrive” at the department’s foyer. Usually the registrar strictly follows the registration and immediately invites the newlyweds to the registration hall.
Change of registration deadlines – for how long and for what reasons?
One month is the standard time allotted by law for a couple to consider a decision and prepare for the wedding. However, life often corrects it, so it is necessary to significantly shorten or extend the period of preparation for registering a marriage.
A couple can be registered on the day of submission of documents if:
- They already have children together
- Woman pregnant
- There is a danger to the life of one of the applicants
- The groom is in military service
The period can be extended - but only for valid reasons, which must be explained to employees by providing documents - for example, a certificate of illness, about forced departure on a business trip. The registry office will be able to extend it for no more than a month.
The biggest disadvantages of applying online
- Waiting period. Unfortunately, booking dates may open 1-2-5 months before the wedding. If a citizen of the Russian Federation needs to shorten the period for objective reasons (pregnancy of the future wife, urgent departure abroad or to the places of military operations of the husband, confirmed by documents, etc.), then he should contact the address of the institution. You can read more about application deadlines in our article.
- Visit to the registry office. When submitting a request, it is worth considering that the “newly married” newlyweds will have to make another “walk” to the local registry office. True, this will take little time, since department specialists have already checked the correctness of filling out the application items. During this visit, preceding the celebration, the civil registry office employee prints out the completed application, checks the passport and SNILS data and asks to sign an official document - an application for marriage.
- Malfunctions. Disadvantages of the online service also include software failures, low level of user knowledge, and inability to navigate the site. This problem can be solved by contacting the support team either by phone or through the feedback form. The processing time for any application is 3 business days.
Select last name
Changing surnames after marriage is not a dogma at all. The legislation of the Russian Federation allows the following options:
- Assigning the husband's surname to the wife or the wife's surname to the husband
- Marriage without changing surnames
- Combining the surnames of husband and wife into one
It is better to make your choice in advance to save time at the registry office or when filling out registration forms online. When deciding to change your last name, you need to take into account all further changes that you will be required to make to absolutely all your other documents - international passport, work book, registration certificates, insurance documents.
How to register on the government services website?
The public services portal is located on the gosuslugi.ru server. To use the convenient service, you must not only create your personal account, but also identify your identity. Thus, creating an account on the site requires entering and confirming the user’s personal data.
Step 1.
At the first stage, you need to clarify your last name, first name, patronymic, email address and cell phone number. The last two parameters are verified by sending a code either via SMS or email. The received code must be entered into the appropriate data entry field.
Step 2.
After confirming your email or cell phone, a password is set to log into the system. It must be taken into account that the password must be difficult to remember: it must be a combination of letters, numbers and symbols.
Step 3. (get a simplified account)
A checkmark and an optimistic inscription - “Registration was successful” - do not at all mean that the user has been fully identified. At the next stage, you need to fill out information about the date and place of birth, indicate SNILS and passport data, including where it was issued and the department code. After that, click “Continue”.
Step 4. (get a standard account)
At this stage, the entered data is automatically verified with the files of the Federal Migration Service and the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation. This procedure takes a little time. Based on the results of the check, a notification is sent to the new user’s email or cell number.
Step 5. (get a verified account)
In order to get a verified account, you need to go to the Edit Personal Data Tab and select Identity Confirmation. After this, you can solve the problem of full authorization in three ways:
- personal application to the MFC branch, where a personal code is issued;
- postal message to the address of the actual place of residence;
- via electronic card.
It is recommended to enter the resulting combination of numbers in your personal account. This “key” opens all the “doors” to all executive authorities of Russia, including the registry office.
You can view all stages of registration in detail in this video:
How can I get it?
It is quite simple to prepare documentation confirming the conclusion of a marriage union. To do this, you need to collect all the required documents, fill out an application, and then contact the registry office in the following ways:
- in person during the visit;
- by sending a request via mail;
- by submitting an application through the MFC;
- by filling out a special application on the State Services online service.
An application for a certificate confirming marriage is sent to the civil registry office where the registration was carried out. If you cannot visit the organization in person, the application can be completed remotely.
Instructions for submitting an application for government assistance through the online portal
Official registration of marriage, an entry in the record book, is carried out in any registry office of the newlyweds’ choice. In order to clarify geographic coordinates, the location or place of residence of a citizen of the Russian Federation is determined in advance on the portal. Among the numerous regions and territories of vast Russia, you need to find your own region, city, village.
Next, on a new page, an accessible list of executive authorities providing public services opens. In this list you need to find the Civil Registry Office , the Wedding Palace or the local registry office. It can be found through the Popular Departments tab.
After this you can receive the service. To begin with, you can book a date, time for visiting the registry office , and choose a formal or non-solemn ceremony.
Next, all that is required is to carefully fill out an application indicating the full name, passport details of the groom (bride), place of residence, as well as post-marital surnames. Another advantage of the portal is that when creating an application, the personal data of the resource user is filled in automatically. That is, it is necessary to enter the data of only one of the newlyweds.
The application is sent to the local registry office for consideration. The status of the application is reflected in the user’s personal account of the public services portal. A positive decision is notified by email to the applicant.
All stages of creating an electronic application for marriage registration in this video:
In person or online?
Hundreds of thousands of marriages are registered every year in the capital's registry offices and wedding palaces. These are the same hundreds of thousands of applications, so queues and long waits are a common situation for everyone who wants to personally submit documents for registration.
If you are not afraid of the likelihood of multiple trips to the nearest registry office and night vigils under its walls, you can try to apply the old fashioned way.
For more advanced couples who value their time, a more modern type of document acceptance has been introduced in Moscow since 2012 - online. Electronic applications are accepted on the websites of all departments of the registry office and wedding palaces of the capital, as well as on the city portal of state and municipal services.
How to do it:
- Register on the registry office website or portal, receive a login and password
- Having gained access to the page, carefully enter the information in all sections, mark the convenient day and time of registration
- Using a payment card, pay 350 rubles - the state fee
All you need to do next is to prepare for the celebration and arrive for registration on such a long-awaited day.
What happens after an application is accepted?
To confirm that the application has been considered, employees of the civil registry office send the applicant information about the details for paying the state fee. Currently, the fee for marriage is 350 rubles.
You can pay the state duty either in a bank or via the Internet. In this article we explain in detail how to do this in 4 different ways.
In large Russian centers it is possible to pay online. There is also an electronic signature service available here.
In small towns, you should visit the registry office to bring a receipt for payment and once again confirm your will by writing a statement on paper. You can view a sample application form on this page.
Necessary conditions are the presence of two people, a visit at a specific time, passports and SNILS with you. In some cases, you need to take additional documents with you to the registry office. A detailed list of required documents is in this article.
Before applying, carefully study the basic rules that the bride and groom must follow.
What kind of certificate is this and what is it for?
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To confirm their family status, Russian citizens can provide not only a certificate of the established form, but also a certificate. This paper is issued in accordance with a certain form established by law.
Obtaining a certificate may be necessary in the following cases:
- for processing various social payments;
- to apply for a pension;
- to confirm the fact of a surname change after a divorce;
- if the marriage certificate is lost.
Since the certificate contains personal information about the spouses, not everyone is issued such a paper. According to the law, a document can be issued:
- one of the persons who are married to each other;
- relatives of the spouses, if one of them died;
- guardians of a citizen who is married or previously married and declared incompetent;
- another legal representative applying to the registry office for a certificate, who has a notarized power of attorney for such actions.
Important! The certificate is issued in writing at the request of the subject who has the legal rights to such an extract.
Filling out an application
When the desired service is selected, complete information on how to obtain it will appear on the screen. Then you need to click on the “Get service” button, after which a form will appear on the monitor that you will have to fill out:
- indicating the document required for registration (certificate);
- by selecting the desired civil registry office department from the list provided;
- by filling out the column with the full name of the applicant, his place of registration, and passport data (information is entered mechanically);
- by recording the details of the marriage certificate;
- indicating in which department of the registry office (name and address) you want to issue an extract;
- by providing an email address and telephone number as additional information.
When the application is completed, you need to click the “Submit” button and wait to receive the corresponding notification.
How long does it take to prepare a certificate?
The completed extract is issued to the applicant during a personal application or to his representative, if there is a notarized power of attorney. The registry office employees can also send a certificate by mail.
If you visit the registry office to obtain the required certificate (if you have all the required documents), it can be issued on the day of the visit. But when applying using other methods, the procedure may take a little longer. This may take several days, and sometimes even a month (if the request has to be sent to the registry office archive located in another locality, or sent via mail).
