Processed by:
?
Marriage Administration Section of Shanghai Civil Administration
Bureau
Procedures:
?
For Shanghai Residents:
(1) Permanent residence books and resident ID cards
(2) Testimonial of marital status (unmarried, divorce or bereft)
issued by the employer, or sub-district office or the town
government (validity: 3 months.)
(3) In case of going abroad on business or otherwise, they shall
also provide testimonial of marital status issued by Chinese
embassy or consulate in this country.
(4) In case of divorce, the original credentials of divorce are
required: Certificate of Divorce, Certificate of Disengagement of
Matrimonial Relationship and written conciliation statement or
court judgment (accompanied by certificate of validity); The
testimonial of divorce issued by a marriage registry office of a
foreign country shall be certified by the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of such country or a competent authority authorized by it
and the embassy or consulate of China in such country; The judgment
or written conciliation statement by a foreign court shall not be
valid until an intermediate court of China orders the
recognition.
(5) If the spouse of the applicant deceases in a foreign
country, the applicant shall provide the original certificate of
death of spouse certified by Chinese embassy or consulate in such
country.
For Taiwan residents:
(1) Taiwan resident ID card, pass for transit from Taiwan to the
Chinese?mainland and travel pass issued by embassy or
consulate of China.
(2) Certificate of unmarried status of the applicant notarized
by notary office of the local court of law and copy of permanent
residence book. (valid for 3 months); anyone who stays continuously
in the Chinese?mainland, Hong Kong or Macau for over 6 months
shall provide evidence of no spouse issued by notary in
Chinese?mainland, evidence of no spouse issued by Marriage
Registry Office of Hong Kong or certificate of marital status
issued by Marriage and Death Registry Board of Macao respectively;
Anyone who stays continuously abroad for over 6 months shall
provide certificate of marital status issued and notarized in the
country of residence and certified by embassy or consulate of China
in such country.
(3) Anyone who reaches legal marital age before leaving for
Taiwan is required to provide certificate of unmarried status
issued by the competent authority of his domicile or notary deed
for pledge of unmarried status until leaving;
(4) In case of divorce, the applicant shall provide the original
certificate of divorce:
Divorce agreement reached in Taiwan shall be notarized by notary
office of a competent local court;
Judgment of court of law in Taiwan in which one party to the
dispute is a resident in the Chinese?mainland shall be ordered
valid by a intermediate court in the Chinese?mainland; The
divorce judgment or conciliation statement issued by a foreign
court shall not be valid until certified by its Ministry of Foreign
Affairs or a competent authority authorized by it and the embassy
or consulate of China in such country; The testimonial of divorce
by a foreign marriage registry office shall not be valid until
certified by its Ministry of Foreign Affairs or a competent
authority authorized by it and the embassy or consulate of China in
such country;
(5) If the spouse of the applicant deceases in Taiwan, the
evidence of death of the spouse shall be notarized by notary office
of the local court of law; if the spouse of the applicant deceases
in a foreign country, the evidence of death of the spouse shall be
certified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or a competent
authority authorized by it and the Chinese embassy or consulate in
such country.
(6) Evidence of employment
The restoration of marriage shall comply with the fore-going
provisions.
Procedures:
The would-be couple shall go to registration at a marriage
registry office. Application with credentials and certificates in
line with relevant requirements →fill out the Marriage Registry
Application→go through pre-marriage medical checkup at a hospital
specified in the letter of reference →translate marriage registry
materials →verification and check by the authority →go through the
procedures of certificate issuance appointment →obtain the
certificate
Charge rate and basis:
Charging basis: Notice on Items and Standards for Charging
Administrative Items within the Civil Administrative System Jointly
Issued by the National Price Bureau and the Ministry of Finance.
(J.F.Z. No. 249 by the National Price Bureau and the Ministry of
Finance in 1992)
Charging rate: service charge for marriage registry between
Shanghai resident and Overseas Chinese, Hong Kong resident or Macao
resident: RMB 30/case
Submitted to: Shanghai Civil Administration Bureau
Address: 70 Caobao Road (3rd Floor, Wedding Ceremony Plaza in
Everbright Exhibition Center)
Basis: The Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China;
Temporary Provisions on Administration of Registry of Marriage
between Residents in the Chinese?mainland and Residents in
Taiwan
Regulatory Provisions on Registry and Consultation of Marriage
between Shanghai Residents and Foreigners, or Overseas Chinese, or
Residents in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan; Temporary Provisions on
Administration of Foreign-related Marriage of Shanghai.
Telephone: 64325087
Office Hours: 9:00-11:00 AM?1:30-4:00?PM on each
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Period: 30 days
Eligible applicants shall:
(1) Both reach the legal marital age, i.e. no earlier than 22
for male, no earlier than 20 for female.
(2) Both are voluntary and single.
(3) Without the relationship of linear consanguinity or of
collateral consanguinity within the third generation each
other.
(4) Both have no diseases leading to prohibition or postponement
of marriage by law.
(5) Either of them shall have the permanent residence of
Shanghai.
(Shanghai.gov.cn October 17, 2006)