Marriage certificate - Muslim marriage act

Hi All,


I am writing this blog as I could not find any site or blog providing information of getting a Marriage certificate from the registrar under the Muslim marriage act.

Note: The total time for getting your marriage certificate has a waiting period of 30 days (Muslim marriage / Special Marriage act). At the time of submitting and receiving the marriage certificate, the bride, the groom and the same 3 witnesses are required to be present.

Submission procedure: The bride and groom need to be present at the time of application along with 3 witnesses. An application form in 3 sets needs to be filled along with the age proof, address proof of both the bride and groom, signature of bride groom and the 3 witnesses and submitted to the Marriage officer (Sub registrar) . In my case they never asked for a joint photograph. Hence I assume it to be same at all the other offices too.

A fee of Rs 15 is charged at the time of submission and you need to produce the receipt at the time of receiving the marriage certificate.

Sub registrar will request to wait for a period of 30 days as under the Muslim marriage act/Special marriage act.

Your application is then put on the notice board of the respective registrar office for a period of 30 days.

Receiving the marriage certificate: Once the 30 days period is over the bride, groom and 3 witnesses need to be present at the sub registrar office and submit the receipt received at the time of submission.

The sub registrar's secretary will ask you to get a printed copy of the marriage certificate(3 sets). Sub-registrar will verify the certificates, sign and put a seal on it. Two copies will be kept by Registrar and one copy will be given to you.

I hope this blog will help others.

This is my true experience, there might be changes or variations in the procedure at different states or cities, request all the readers to inquire about the procedure yourselves and not completely depend on the information published on this blog.