Municipality of Amersfoort: registering a civil partnership

You and your partner want to get married or enter into a registered partnership. Report your plans to the municipality where the ceremony takes place. You can submit your report online. This is possible from one year before the wedding or partnership date.

Marriage or registered partnership

Marriage and registered partnership are equal before the law. Key difference: Registered partnership is not recognized in all countries. The procedure, costs and facilities of the municipality are the same as for a wedding. You go through the same steps.

Apply for foreign documents

Were you born, married, divorced or lived abroad? You may need documents from abroad before you can enter into a marriage or registered partnership. If you are registered in the Netherlands with only a passport, you still have to hand in your birth certificate. Have you been registered in the Netherlands for less than a year? In that case, hand in a declaration of unmarried status in addition to the birth certificate.

You can request a declaration of unmarried status from the municipality of the country where you were last registered. It shows that you are not married and do not have a registered partnership. It sometimes takes a lot of time to get the right documents to the Netherlands. We can inform you which documents you need and which conditions they must meet. For example, you sometimes have to have the documents legalized. 

You can read more about this on the website of the Dutch government. If the documents are not drawn up in Dutch, English, German or French, a translation by a sworn translator in the Netherlands is also required.