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No weddings are performed between 20 December and 09 January in Mauritius
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The documents below must be sent to the hotel six weeks prior to the wedding date as they are required by the Civil Status Office.Clients must take the following ORIGINAL documentation with them to Mauritius or Seychelles.
a) A photocopy of the last three pages of the clients’ passports if they are the new passports (bar code on the back page) OR
b) A photocopy of the first three pages of the clients’ passports if they are the old passports (bar code on the front page)
c) A photocopy of UNABRIDGED birth certificates (no abridged birth certificates will be accepted)
d) A photocopy of Divorce or Death Certificate of ex-spouse (if any)
e) Attached form requesting particulars of the wedding couple
All wedding documents must be translated into English by an official translator.
A divorced bride getting married within 10 months of the decree of divorce must take a pregnancy test in Mauritius.If the test is positive, the civil marriage cannot be celebrated. The cost of test to be paid by the client.
At latest three days before the wedding, clients will have to go to the Registrar General Civil Status office in Port Louis.The originals of their documents and their affidavit will be checked by an attorney at law.
Once completed, clients are granted a certificate of non residency. Clients will then proceed to the Supreme Court to swear their affidavit. This procedure is not applicable in Seychelles.
If a matrimonial contract is in place a letter is required by their notary advising of this. The letter from the notary must be in English or French.
Legal and taxi costs are subject to fluctuation.
Apostille of Wedding Certificate: his is a documentary device by which a government department authenticates a document as genuine, thereby legalizing it for use in another country under the terms laid out in the HAGUE CONVENTION.
Once a document has been Apostilled, thereby providing official government authentication of the signatures and stamps appearing on it, it is automatically deemed legalised for use in another member country.
The Apostille simplifies the formalities of legislation of public documents outside the countries from which clients emanate. Mauritius is one of the signatories of the above Convention and it is the Prime Minister's office which is responsible for thefinal authentication exercise, that is, issuing the "Apostille".
Prime Ministers office, New Government Centre, 4th Floor between 9am to 3pm.
It is to be noted that the Apostille service is FREE OF CHARGE.
Clients are responsible for transportation costs and any courier service that might be necessary. These costs are not included in the cost of legal procedures as quoted
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