Hey guys hoping someone can give me some advice on this. I live in canada and am currently in the process of applying for a uk passport. I thought i had everything i needed but my application was returned saying i sent the incorrect marriage certificate of my parents. They said they do not accept church certificates but the one i sent appears to be a government one, as my mom also has another separate church certifcate which i never sent.
Now my parents were married on a uk military base in famagusta, cyprus back in the early 70's, so i am finding it very difficult to find out where i could obtain a copy of the correct marriage certificate i need. I am also convinced the one i sent is actually the correct one as my parents have never had anything else. Any thoughts guys? Sounds to me like you ticked the wrong box so to speak. Your title says, 'UK marriage certificate'. In fact they may never have had a UK marriage certificate, they may have a Cypriot marriage certificate.
I suspect that the link you provided Isafjordur is for overseas marriages that are REGISTERED with the GRO. If it was never registered with them they obviously will not be able to provide a copy. I do not expect that the GRO is suggesting they will institute a search of the marriage certificates of any country in the world you care to ask them to search. The fee involved indicates this to me.
With GRO reference number £7, without £10. On the other hand, if they were married on a UK base by a military priest or minister then perhaps they do have a UK marriage certificate and it should be registered with the GRO. The person who returned it may simply not have recognized it as a UK certificate because it was issued by the military.
Ticking the 'returned because they don't accept church certificates' may have easily been the only option the 'system' allows the clerk to tick. The question is were they married under UK law or under Cyprus law. That the marriage TOOK PLACE on the base does not mean it was a UK marriage if you see what I mean. What exactly does the certificate you have indicate?
For example my marriage certificate from Scotland has across the top, 'Extract of an entry in a REGISTER of MARRIAGES' (their capital letters) and to the right a Serial number MGxxxxxxxCE (x is a numeral which I don't intend to divulge for obvious reasons) In the fine print at the bottom it refers to the 'Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965. It also refers to the Registrar General. So is is obviously a UK marriage registration.
What does the one you have indicate to the reader? Getting in touch with the Cyprus Registry Office may simply result in another copy of what you already have. So first you need to decide what it is you have.
I dont have the certificate with me at the moment but i do know that it read this along the top.' 'Marriage solemnized at St Patrick's, 4 Mile Point, Famagusta in the Sovereign Base Area of Ayios, Nikolaos (Cyprus).' So they were married in a church on a military base.
The reason the high commission gave me for rejecting the application was 'Marriage certificates issued by a Church are not acceptable for citizenship purposes. We must see the certificate issued by the relevant government registrar of the country in which the marriage took place.' Now i really believe that what i have is the correct document as my mom does have another separate church issued certificate which i never sent them. I am just hoping that the high commission didnt just look at the one i sent them, see the name of a church on it and just dismissed it as incorrect.
Well have another look and see what else it says. In particular if there is any mention of Registrar General anywhere. It does sound like it might be a UK registered mariage if it refers to 'Sovereign Base Area'.
They may well have read only the 'St. Patrick's' and as I suggested a not so bright clerk just stopped reading at that point and ticked the 'don't except church' box. Read it carefully, to assure yourself of whether it is a UK registered marriage or a Cyprus registered marriage.
If it is a UK registered marriage by virtue of having been on Sovereign territory, then all you may have to do is re-submit it with a covering note explainging it and I would also include a copy of the Church certificate so they can see the difference. Bureaucracies are full of clerks who know little about anything outside of the norm.
Bottom line, you are entitled to a UK passport and will EVENTUALLY get one. There are countless thousands who would cut off an arm for a passport that gets them access to all of the EU.
You're one of the lucky ones even if you have to persevere through bureaucratic ineptitude and red tape to get it.
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Now I'm an old married I'm trying to sort out all the changing of name stuff! Have tried a search but all questions seems to be about certificates, rather than what I need to know! I'm probably just being thick.
Section 5 on the form asks for proof of identity and if you have a passport you can put the number and sign and they will check with the passport people. But my passport is in maiden name? So not sure if this will be ok?
And then the signature on the bottom of the form, I assume my new one wont match the passport one. Surely its easier than I am making it, and I'm just being daft??!! I dont want to change my passport as it has years left. Anyone shed any light please?