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Legalization of civil status
Hi,
I am from an EU country, resident in Belgium and I am getting married to another EU national in a country outside of Belgium.
For my spouses country(EU) I need to provide certain documents, eg. like birth certificate and a document proving I am not married. I have the documents from my homecountry that can be legalized by my homecountry, but I need a document from the commune here in Belgium that proves I am not married. Now, my question is, to get this 'legalization'(Apostille) for the Belgian document that proves I am not married, which country should do this? My original home EU country or Belgium, and if Belgium how and where?
I would be very grateful for all responses to this
Before spending any money on this, clarify with the organisation asking for it, exactly what will be acceptable to them.
Your home country cannot say that you are not married, only that they had no record of your marriage before you moved away.
Your commune cannot say that you are not married, only that they have no record of you getting married since you moved here. (And, when I needed similar proof, my commune even suggested that I could have left Belgium and gone to a third country, got married there and then moved back here!)
