{"id":23231,"date":"2025-04-14T09:19:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T09:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/zimluanda\/?page_id=23231"},"modified":"2025-04-14T09:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T09:19:23","slug":"marriage-certificate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.zimluanda.gov.zw\/?page_id=23231","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Issuance of duplicate marriage certificates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is for replacement of lost or torn marriage certificates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Full names of the parties<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Full date of marriage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Type of Marriage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Statutory fee of US$5 per copy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>Processing Time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<br>Correction of errors or substance on marriage certificates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Original marriage certificate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Birth certificate and a photocopy thereof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Proof that an error was made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Notorial deed where a person has made a complete change of name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Statutory fee of US$5 for normal application and US$10 for urgent application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Provide proof of urgency for urgent applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>Processing time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urgent application &#8211; 1 day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normal Application &#8211; 1 week<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Issuance of non-marriage certificates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confirmation of a person&#8217;s marital status where a Zimbabwean national intends to marry abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Original birth certificate and a copy thereof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 A statutory fee in case of a male US$0.5 per year calculated from 13<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;birthday to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In case of a female, US$0.5 per year calculated from the 11<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;birthday to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 A non-marriage certificate fee of US$30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>Processing time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;Designation of marriage officers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Completed application form for designation as a marriage officer (M1) authorized and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>recommended by the Authority governing the religions denomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Statutory fee of US$15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Applicant to write an examination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Pass Mark 75% and above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<strong>Processing time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; Authentication of marriage record<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is confirmation of any filed marriage record by the Registrar of Marriages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Full date of marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Full names of parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Type of marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Statutory fee of US$15 &#8211; Normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Statutory fee of US$25 &#8211; Urgent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>Processing time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normal &#8211; One month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Urgent &#8211; 2 weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issuance of duplicate marriage certificates This is for replacement of lost or torn marriage certificates. &nbsp;Requirements \u2022 Full names of the parties \u2022 Full date of marriage \u2022 Type of Marriage \u2022 Statutory fee of US$5 per copy. &nbsp;Processing Time One day. &nbsp;Correction of errors or substance on marriage certificates Requirements \u2022 Original marriage certificate&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bst_post_transparent":"","_bst_post_title":"","_bst_post_layout":"narrow","_bst_post_sidebar_id":"","_bst_post_content_style":"boxed","_bst_post_vertical_padding":"","_bst_post_feature":"","_bst_post_feature_position":"","_bst_post_header":false,"_bst_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23231","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zimluanda.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zimluanda.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zimluanda.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zimluanda.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zimluanda.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zimluanda.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23232,"href":"http:\/\/www.zimluanda.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23231\/revisions\/23232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zimluanda.gov.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}