Conversion of civil partnership to marriage certificate
If you registered your civil partnership in the UK you can convert it to a marriage if required. This also applies if registered overseas in a consulate or armed forces base (where the civil partnership was registered according to the laws of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Island).
There are two ways to do this:
- A simple administrative process called a ‘standard conversion’
- A two stage process where the conversion is followed by a ceremony
The standard conversion
Under this process you and your partner will need to attend an appointment at any register office and complete a simple declaration with details about you and your civil partnership. The documents required include:
- Evidence of your name and date of birth – you can use current passports or birth certificates
- Evidence of your address – recent utilities bill
- An original civil partnership certificate
A legal declaration will then be drawn up for you to both sign with the Superintendent Registrar. You can change the wording if desired. Your marriage is then registered and a marriage certificate will be issued.
A conversion followed by a ceremony
This type of conversion has two stages. First, you and your partner will need to attend an appointment at any register office and complete a declaration with details about you and your civil partnership; this is the same steps as above.
The second stage is the signing of the declaration, which can be followed by a ceremony. This can be done at a registered office, religious buildings that are registered for the marriages, or any other approved premises.
The ceremony can be designed to suit you. After the ceremony your marriage is registered, and a marriage certificate is issued.
To use this certificate overseas it will need to be legalised with an apostille, simply send us your document and we will apostille, and if necessary translate and attest at the UK embassy of the country for which the document is intended to be used.
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Our Apostille service includes;
- Full Document Check and Verification
- Obtaining an Apostille (FCDO Government Attestation)
- Solicitors Attestation Where Required
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- Any Associated Admin Charges
- Secure and Fast Return of Your Documents
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Our Embassy Attestation service includes;
- Full Document Check and Verification
- Obtaining an Apostille (FCDO Government Attestation)
- Solicitors Attestation Where Required
- Embassy Certification
- VAT and Disbursements
- Any Associated Admin Charges
- Secure and Fast Return of Your Documents
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Our Solicitor Attestation service includes;
- Full Document Check and Verification
- Solicitor Attestation
- VAT and Disbursements
- Any Associated Admin Charges
- Secure and Fast Return of Your Documents
In order to offer you a quote, we will first need to see your document(s) to assess the number of words, the language it is currently in and the language you require the translation in. We will then get back to you within 24 hours with a quote.
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Conversion of civil partnership to marriage certificate is not available for this service.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
Please note that the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office is currently experiencing severe delays with issuing apostilles. It is currently taking around 20 - 25 working days to apostille a document through the FCDO and, as a result, our standard processing times are taking longer than usual.
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