Hi all
My wife and I are running into some confusion when gathering our documents for registering our British marriage in South Africa. We are both South African, and are attempting to do this through the SA embassy in London.
The instructions from the SA Dept. of Home Affairs say to provide "2 x Certified copies of your legalised document". But due to Crown copyright, you cannot just copy a marriage certificate in the UK, so you can't just get a solicitor or the post office to certify some copies.
We would therefore have to send our original, apostilled marriage certificate into the SA embassy. Unless there's another way?
We're not sure what to do. Does anyone know if the DHA will accept marriage certificates that are certified in the regular way by a solicitor or the post office?
Thanks in advance.
My wife and I are running into some confusion when gathering our documents for registering our British marriage in South Africa. We are both South African, and are attempting to do this through the SA embassy in London.
The instructions from the SA Dept. of Home Affairs say to provide "2 x Certified copies of your legalised document". But due to Crown copyright, you cannot just copy a marriage certificate in the UK, so you can't just get a solicitor or the post office to certify some copies.
We would therefore have to send our original, apostilled marriage certificate into the SA embassy. Unless there's another way?
We're not sure what to do. Does anyone know if the DHA will accept marriage certificates that are certified in the regular way by a solicitor or the post office?
Thanks in advance.
