Performance Of
The Egyptian Marriages
And Authentication Of Marriage Certificates
1. The Consulate can establish a marriage between a man and a woman
that are not married before. It also performs the authentication
of marriage, which is the legalization of marriages that
happened before through a non Egyptian authority.
2. One of the marriage parties must be an Egyptian citizen.
3. Husband must be 18 years old or over, and wife must be 16 years
or over.
4. The Consulate can establish marriage only for Moslems. For Christians,
the Consulate can only authenticate all their marriage
certificates issued from their churches, or local authorities.
5. Both the husband and the wife must be present in the consulate
with their passports and 4 passport pictures for each of them.
6. To authenticate a marriage happened before, they must have the original
certificate of that marriage.
7. The consulate gives a copy of the Egyptian marriage certificate to
the husband, a copy to the wife and sends a copy to be registered in
Egypt.
