- Marriage
- Examination of impediments to marriage
- Marriage ceremony
- Prenuptial agreement
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Divorce granted abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Registration of a deed of division of property
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- Limited account or the management of the earnings
- Appointing a substitute guardian
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- Giving up the guardian’s task
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- Looking after the interests of an absent person or the future owner of the property
- Restrictions to competency and declaration of incompetence
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- Citizens’ initiative
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- Death abroad
- Registration of a child born abroad
- Registration of a name change performed abroad
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- Moving to Finland
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Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
If you have got married abroad, please notify the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of it. The information about your marriage can then be registered in the Finnish Population Information System and your personal data will be up to date. A surname that has been changed in connection with concluding the marriage can be registered at the same time.
If you are a Finnish citizen, you have the obligation to notify any changes in your personal data to the Finnish Population Information System.
To have your marriage registered, you have to deliver the original marriage certificate issued by the foreign authority to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency. When the information about your marriage has been recorded in the Population Information System, you will receive an extract from the Population Information System showing the names of the spouses and the date on which the marriage was concluded.
If the Digital and Population Data Services Agency does not record the information you have submitted to it in the Population Information System, you will receive a decision stating it.
You can make a claim for a revised decision concerning this register entry to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency within 30 days of having been informed of the decision. The instructions for making a claim for a revised decision are sent to you with to the decision.
Registration of a changed surname
A surname that has been changed in connection with concluding a marriage can also be registered at the Digital and Population Data Services Agency. The change of surname should be indicated either in the marriage certificate or the personal identity document. However, if the new surname is not indicated in the marriage certificate or the personal identity document, the Digital and Population Data Services Agency can register the change of surname based on your notification subject to certain conditions. This is possible if your place of residence is in Finland.
Finnish citizens living in Sweden
The Swedish authorities forward the details of the marriage to be registered in the Finnish Population Information System through official channels. If the person is a citizen of both Finland and Sweden, Sweden considers the person to be its own citizen only and will not forward the information. Persons with dual citizenship therefore have to submit the notification themselves.
If you have concluded a marriage abroad, the details of the marriage can be registered in the Finnish Population Information System. This way your personal data will be up to date and using the services of the Finnish authorities will be easier. If you are a Finnish citizen, you have the duty to report your changed personal details to the Finnish Population Information System.
To have your marriage registered, you have to deliver the original marriage certificate issued by the foreign authority to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency. When the information about your marriage has been recorded in the Population Information System, you will receive an extract from the Population Information System showing the names of the spouses and the date on which the marriage was concluded.
If the Digital and Population Data Services Agency does not record the information you have submitted to it in the Population Information System, you will receive a decision stating it. You can make a claim for a revised decision concerning this register entry to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency within 30 days of having been informed of the decision. The instructions for making a claim for a revised decision are sent to you with to the decision.
Registration of a changed surname
A surname that has been changed in connection with concluding a marriage can also be registered at the Digital and Population Data Services Agency. The change of surname should be indicated either in the marriage certificate or the personal identity document. However, if the new surname is not indicated in the marriage certificate or the personal identity document, the Digital and Population Data Services Agency can register the change of surname based on your notification subject to certain conditions. This is possible if your place of residence is in Finland.
Finnish citizens living in Sweden
The Swedish authorities forward the details of the marriage to be registered in the Finnish Population Information System through official channels. If the person is a citizen of both Finland and Sweden, Sweden considers the person to be its own citizen only and will not forward the information. Persons with dual citizenship therefore have to submit the notification themselves.
Do as follows
Deliver the original documents, legalised if necessary, related to your marriage and copies of your passports to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency. If one or both of you are Finnish citizens, you can also deliver the documents to the nearest Finnish diplomatic mission.
Notify a marriage concluded abroad
You may need to have the documents legalised or translated.
Frequently asked questions
Scanned copies of documents alone are not sufficient. You must also submit the original documents to the Digital and Population Data Services Agency. See also separate instructions for the legalisation and translation of a document.
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- Examination of impediments to marriage
- Marriage ceremony
- Prenuptial agreement
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Divorce granted abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Registration of a deed of division of property
- Dissolution of cohabitation
- Removal of marital rights to property
- Extracts issued of the register on the right to officiate at weddings
- Having or adopting a child
- Names
- Moving
- Elections and Right to vote
- Suomi.fi Web Service
- Citizen Certificate and electronic identity
- Guardianship
- Continuing power of attorney
- Appointment of a guardian
- Duties of the guardian
- Guardianship for a minor
- Who can act as a guardian?
- Actions that require the permission of the guardianship authority
- Appointing a substitute guardian
- Termination of guardianship
- Giving up the guardian’s task
- Guardianship authority's means of supervision
- Looking after the interests of an absent person or the future owner of the property
- Restrictions to competency and declaration of incompetence
- Extracts from the Register of Guardianship Affairs
- Certificates from the Population Information System
- Population information in the Population Information System
- Registration of a gift notification
- Services of notary public
- Certification of purchase
- Citizens’ initiative
- Death and estate inventory
- Living abroad
- Moving
- Registration of citizenship
- Divorce granted abroad
- Death abroad
- Registration of a child born abroad
- Registration of a name change performed abroad
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- Moving to Finland
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