Below we give a list of documents usually requested from a couple and corresponding rules of their creation. We attract your attention to the fact that this article has an advisory character and we recommend you to figure out all details with an employee of marriage registrations at the moment of registration.

If a foreign citizen wants to contract a marriage with a citizen of Ukraine who lives in Odessa, he must give the following documents to a department of official records of births, deaths and marriages: A passport of a foreign citizen with a mark or a visa that proves legitimacy of his being on the territory of Ukraine.

The passport should be translated into Ukrainian and a signature of a translator should be notarized.

A certificate of marriage status of a foreign citizen. This document must confirm that a person isn’t married at the moment. A certificate should be either legalized in Ukrainian consulate on the territory of the country it is given in or have a stamp or an apostille. This certificate’s translation and a signature affirmation is done by a notary.

If a man was married before, he needs some documents that confirm a breaking off a previous marriage (a certificate of a divorce, decision of court, death certificate of a partner etc.)
This document must also be legalized and translated into Ukrainian. A signature of a translator is confirmed by a notary.

For shortening of a standard term between a filing of application and registration (1 month) one should confirm a reason of process acceleration. It may be documents confirming pregnancy and presence of mutual children. Or it may be documents that assert limited terms of a foreigner’s stay in a country – a return-ticket for a place, a certificate from work with a period indication of a holiday. These documents should also be translated into Ukrainian.

If after contracting a marriage a family plans to live abroad, Ukrainian marriage certificate should be legalized in Ukraine for using it in a different state as an official document.
For contracting a marriage an Odessa woman must have
1. A passport of a citizen of Ukraine;
2. If she was married before, a certificate about a marriage annulment. If a partner died, a death certificate.

We attract your attention to the fact that a family registration in Odessa is a quite easy and quick procedure, but in many cases it can be much more pragmatic to contract marriage in a country you are going to live in.