Marriage in Cuba: What
Documents Should Canadians
Prepare for Wedding in Cuba
Legalization Service Centre offers fast, efficient and secure authentication and legalization services for Canadian documents to be used in Cuba. Our team of knowledgeable and experienced professionals ensure that your documents properly authenticated and legalized in accordance with international laws and regulations, enabling for their validation and use in Cuba.
Canadians Marrying in Cuba
Congratulations on choosing to marry on the beautiful island of Cuba. Perhaps your fiancé/e is Cuban or perhaps you are both Canadians taking advantage of a beautiful Cuban destination wedding. While the latter is simple, there are technical barriers you will have to overcome in order to marry in a Cuba. In both cases, you will need to have certain paperwork compiled, authenticated and legalized in order to marry in Cuba.
In order to marry in Cuba, you will need to obtain official permission from your future spouse’s government. Their government will require proof of the following with documentation:
- Your marital status as being single and eligible to marry
- Proof of country of birth
- Proof of date of birth to meet the legal age requirement of 18 years old to marry
To prove that you are single, as a Canadian you will need to provide a Statutory Declaration of Single Status, along with notarized copies of your identification such as a birth certificate and passport. (Please contact our office for the Statutory Declaration of Single Status template). If you are divorced/widowed, there are additional documents you will need to provide such as your marriage certificate, divorce certificate, divorce order, or death certificate.
All of the documents that you provide must be translated into Spanish, notarized, authenticated by Global Affairs Canada, and legalized by the Cuban embassy in Canada. For easy processing and a hiccup-free wedding in Cuba, you will want to have all of this paperwork completed before you depart for Cuba for the big affair!
While this takes care of your end of documentation, your Cuban partner will need to do some paperwork of their own. Your future husband or wife will need to provide the following to their government:
- His/her identity card
- If they are divorced, a notarized copy of their divorce certificate
- For a female, if she has been divorced for less than 300 days, she will require a medical certificate stating that she is not pregnant
Once all of your paper work is in order, you will then apply for the marriage itself. In order to do so, you can go to one of two offices in Havana, Cuba, along with your future spouse and two witnesses who are not related to either of you. Your witnesses will need to bring with them documentation/identification that proves the following:
- Their full names
- Address
- Identity document number, passport, and residency permit/tourist cards
At the end of it all and after several fees and stamps, you will obtain three copies of your marriage certificate. And voila, you are now husband and wife!
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