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With effect from the 1st of March 2013 the
requirements for British couples resident in the UK have changed:
There is no longer any requirement for wedding
documentation for British Nationals resident in the UK to be sent to
any British Consular Section in Italy for further processing.
You should start the process for your
documents 6 months before your wedding date if you are resident in
England, Northern Ireland and Wales and 3 months before if you are
resident in Scotland.
Step 1:
You will both still need to give notice of
your intent to marry at your local registry office in the UK, after
16-21 days assuming no one has objected to your marriage they will
issue you both with a Certificate of No Impediment
(CNI).
It is
important that your names on your CNIs are exactly the same as those
on your passports.
These documents do not need to be
translated into Italian.
Step 2:
While you are waiting
for your Certificate of No Impediment you should make a
Statutory
Declaration before a solicitor or public notary in the UK. You can
download the bi-lingual statutory declaration
here.
The declaration is required by the Italian
authorities and gives additional information that isn’t detailed on
your Certificate of No Impediment.
The solicitor or public notary
will charge a fee for this service. Fees will vary so it might be
worth shopping around.
Step 3:
Legalising your
documents for the Italian Authorities:
When you have your
Certificate of No Impediment and you have made your
Statutory
Declaration, you need to send them both to the FCO Legalisation
Office in Milton Keynes for each to be legalised with a Hague
Apostille. The Legalisation Office will charge for this – please
check the current charges and procedure on the
Legalisation Office website.
Step 4:
Once both these documents have been
legalised, you will then need to have the legalised
Certificate of
No Impediment translated. As it will become an Italian legal
document it must be translated by a translator based in Italy and
recognised by the Italian courts.
Once completed Step
3, please send your documents to us by registered post where we will
assist you in finalising Step 4 here. Both your
Certificates of
No Impediment need to be translated and recognised and stamped at
the Italian court here in Sicily. There will be a cost for this
procedure and for the government stamps.
Note:The Statutory Declaration does not need to be translated
since it is already in both languages.
Each British national
resident in the UK should have:
1) A Certificate of No Impediment
- issued in the UK, legalised in
the UK and then translated into Italian and recognised by the
Italian courts
2) A bilingual Statutory Declaration legalised in the UK
3) Passport
For more information about British
couples getting married in Italy you can also consult the Foreign
Offices page UK in Italy
MARRIAGE IN ITALY
where you will also
find the current fees for the Nulla Ostas.
For British
couples living in Australia or other commonwealth countries please
see this
link
for helpful information on the process for the documentation
required to marry in Italy.
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