Marriage Registration in Cuba

If your marriage in Cuba is part of a wedding package organised by a tour operator, please contact your tour operator with any questions you have.
 
If you are travelling to Cuba independently and intend to get married here, you should contact local lawyers to obtain guidance on the procedures.

Two British Citizens Marrying

If you are both single you only need to submit your valid passports to a Cuban lawyer. The lawyer who marries you will provide a declaration stating that neither of you have been married before and are free to marry each other.
 
If either one of you is previously divorced or widowed you also need to submit your previous marriage certificate and either the Divorce Certificate or Death Certificate. These documents should be translated into Spanish and properly legalised at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Legalisation Department) and the Cuban Embassy, both of which are in London.

British citizen marrying a Cuban citizen

If you are single you need to submit your valid passport, your birth certificate, and a statutory declaration (stating that you are single) issued in front of a notary public, solicitor or lawyer.
 
If you are previously divorced or widowed you need to submit all of the above together with your previous marriage certificate and the divorce or death certificate. These documents should be translated into Spanish and properly legalised at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Legalisation Department) and the Cuban Embassy, both of which are in London.
 
To ensure the process of getting married in Cuba runs smoothly, it is imperative that you have all the above documents before you leave the UK.
 
In extreme circumstances the Consular Section can help you by issuing a Certificate of No Impediment. However, to do this we have to display a Notice of Marriage on our notice board for 21 days. If no objections to the marriage are received after 21 days we can then issue a Certificate of No Impediment. We can only do this if you have the relevant supporting documentation mentioned above.

Note: The information on this website on marrying in Cuba is provided as a general guide and is based upon information provided to the FCO by the relevant local authorities. The information on this website is therefore only up to date and accurate to the extent that such authorities provide us with timely and accurate information. Accordingly, the FCO does not guarantee that this information is accurate and will not be liable for any inaccuracies in this information. British nationals wishing to obtain information about marriage must also contact the relevant local authority to be sure of the requirements that they need in order for their ceremony to go ahead. 

Birth Registration in Cuba

If you wish to have a birth registered at the General Registrar’s Office in the UK, you may do so through the Consular Section in Havana.

How to apply for a Consular Birth Registration

Complete an application form for Consular birth registration.

Present the following documents:

• The child's original birth certificate.
• The father's or mother's original British birth certificate or Certificate of Naturalisation.
• If the father is the British citizen, he must produce his valid marriage certificate.
• If the mother is the British citizen and is married, she must present her marriage certificate; otherwise, if single, the certificate is not needed.

All these documents must be the original ones as we cannot accept photocopies. We will return your original documents to you inmediately.

Fees:

See Our Consular Fees page

Forms

Birth Registration Form

How do I read / print these forms?

The forms are stored in the Adobe Portable Document format (PDF). To read them on screen and print them out you need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader programme installed on your computer. You can download it free of charge from the Adobe website.

Important Notice

For children born after 1 July 2006 to a father who is a British citizen otherwise than by descent, marriage is no longer necessarily an issue. If the birth certificate shows that father's name and the certificate is issued within a year of the child's birth, applications for passports and/or consular birth registration may be granted. The Embassy will no longer need to look into the validity of the marriage - which means it will no longer be necessary to see termination of the previous marriage of either parent.