About Marry Georgia

Most couples who write to us cannot marry where they live, or can only do so after a long notice period, a religious ceremony one of them does not share, or embassy paperwork that never ends. Georgia registers civil marriages between foreigners on their passports, and that is the whole reason this service exists: to make a trip to Tbilisi end with a registered marriage and a certificate that works at home.

We have done this work since 2010, which means 16 years of cases. In that time the routes have changed more than once: the Philippines joined the Hague Apostille Convention in 2019, Saudi Arabia in December 2022 and Pakistan in March 2023, so documents that once needed embassy legalization now take an apostille, while the UAE still needs the full legalization chain. The guides on this site are written around what those years taught us goes wrong in practice: the divorce decree that is not final, the surname that does not match the passport, the certificate that was apostilled when the receiving country wanted legalization.

We work mainly with couples living in the UAE and the other Gulf states, and with Indian, Pakistani, Filipino, Lebanese, Russian, Ukrainian, British, American and European citizens, many of them interfaith or of two different nationalities. The guides on this site follow those cases: the UAE and GCC guide, the complete guide for foreigners with one section per nationality, and the country-by-country document checklist.

• ✓We pre-check passports, marital status and any divorce or death document before you book travel, and tell you plainly if the case is simple, needs a document fixed at home first, or is not possible.
• ✓We book the registration appointment and arrange the two adult witnesses Georgian law requires for couples who travel alone.
• ✓We arrange notarized Georgian translation of foreign documents in Tbilisi.
• ✓We coordinate the PSDA apostille of the Georgian certificate or its legalization by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and, for the UAE, the embassy step, and courier the certificate when you leave before the chain is complete.
• ✓We do not register marriages, issue apostilles or attest documents: the Public Service Development Agency, embassies and foreign ministries do.
• ✓We do not obtain apostilles on your own country's documents: they come from the issuing country, and we tell you which office.
• ✓We do not give legal advice on the law of your country, and we do not promise same-day registration or a final price before the pre-check.

Each guide on this site answers one question in depth, and each topic is explained in one place only. Nationality differences are sections inside the guide that owns the topic, not separate pages. The guides are written by the Marry Georgia case team from the published rules of the Public Service Development Agency and of the authorities in the countries our couples come from, and from what we see in real cases: the documents that are refused, the name mismatches that stop a registration, the steps couples forget after the wedding.

Every guide links to the official sources it relies on, including the Public Service Development Agency, the Hague Conference apostille status table and the Georgian consular portal, and shows the date of its last review. Where an official source and our page differ, the official source is right. Where a rule is uncertain or changes often, the page says so and tells you whom to ask instead of guessing.

We correct mistakes as soon as we learn of them. If you find a rule that has changed, or a step that worked differently for you, write to info@marrygeorgia.com and we will check it and update the page.