Marriage abroad: recognition
If you get married abroad you must have the marriage recognised in Belgium.
How?
Come after marriage to the City Office, by appointment.
What must you bring?
- Copy of the marriage certificate
- After it has been recognised, do you also want the marriage certificate transferred to the city's registers? We need the marriage certificate with a sworn translation into Dutch.
- Attention: foreign documents sometimes need to be legalised.
- Your identity card
- (Copy of) your partner's identity card or passport
Price
Free of charge.