Please note that Worcestershire Registration Service charges a booking fee when you book your Notice of Marriage/Civil Partnership appointment. When you arrive for your appointment with all the correct paperwork to enable us to take your Notices, the booking fee will be transferred so no further fee will be payable for your Notice of Marriage/Civil Partnership. Should you be terminally ill or unable to travel, housebound or staying in hospital, special arrangements can sometimes be made for a ceremony at such places. Please contact the You will need to provide evidence of your name, age, nationality, marital status, address, and immigration status. If the correct documents are not available at your appointment we will be unable to take your Notice – you will need to make another appointment and pay a further booking fee. Please check carefully the documents you need to bring to your appointment. Registration service for more information. What documents do I need to provide? A full list of acceptable documents can be found on the GOV.UK website: Marriages and Civil Partnerships in England and Wales: Documents you’ll need to give notice. If you are subject to immigration control, please read the information below as you will need further documentary evidence. Visa requirements If you are entering the UK for the purpose of a Marriage or Civil Partnership you must check with UKVI (United Kingdom Visa and Immigration) that you have the correct visas to do so. Worcestershire Registration Service is unable to offer any advice regarding immigration matters. Abuse of immigration laws We are working with the Home Office to identify any Marriages and Civil Partnerships which seek to abuse UK immigration laws. Anybody found to be arranging, facilitating, or entering into a Marriage or Civil Partnership solely to gain permission to stay in the UK risks arrest or prosecution. Foreign nationals may also face deportation and be barred from re-entering the UK for up to 14 years. Proof of immigration status Please note: If either party is a national of an EU country and does not have settled or pre-settled status (or a pending application) applied for prior to 1 st July 2021 or is a national of a non-EU country, you may be subject to immigration control. This means you must give your Notices together at the Register Office covering the district in which you have
both lived for the preceding 7 days and 7 nights. If you both live in different Registration districts you must give your Notices together at either Register Office.
Registrars cannot give immigration advice.
In addition to the documents you need to provide when giving Notice, you must provide evidence of your immigration status: • proof of settled, pre-settled or pending EUSS status, including the 9-digit alphanumeric share code from the GOV.UK website: www.gov.uk/view-prove- immigration-status If you do not have the correct proof, your Marriage or Civil Partnership will be referred to UKVI who may decide to extend your notice period for 70 days if they wish to investigate further. The Marriage or Civil Partnership cannot take place until approval is granted by UKVI. More information on this can be found on the GOV.UK website for Marriages and Civil Partnerships in England and Wales: www.gov.uk/marriages-civil-partnerships.
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