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What Is The Certificate Of No Impediment For Marriage (CNI) And How To Get It?
“What is The Certificate Of No Impediment (CNI), where and how to get it?” is one of the most pressing issues for couples preparing to get married in Antalya; It should also be noted that the document is the very first evident confirming the creation of a new family.
In February 2015, the Council of Ministers of Turkey, in accordance with the requirements for documents for marriage registration, accepts the condition to submit a certificate of majority, without this document, the marriage application will not be valid. In the same degree the second paragraph on the position of marriage, a certificate of the absence of obstacles to marriage was added to the first paragraph of the marriage provision. 
Marriage Permission And Marriage Declaration
An amendment made in 2015, stipulated that couples wishing to marry must receive marriage permission and a marriage declaration and that these testimonies should be considered valid until they are refuted. It was observed that these official papers became mandatory, and also changed the definition of marriage. According to this definition, a man and a woman who decided to seal the relationship with an official marriage in order to create a family should provide the necessary certificates for a marriage contract. Matrimonial documents are controlled by a registry officer;
- Filling out and signing a marriage application, and writing in the required declaration.
- Compliance in the documents between the passport data and issued certificates. It is necessary to make the elimination of inconsistencies if there are some.
- Regardless of whether one or both persons are minors, or in the case of any restriction, parental consent (consent)
- Regardless of whether one or both persons are minors, or in the case of any restriction, the judge’s permission required.
- If one or two married people have a minor age or have any restrictions, the guardian must check the details, for example, the availability of a court decision.
If there is a shortage of deviation in the documents, the marriage officer will immediately request from a couple to refill the scripts, after he will inform the applicants of the day and time when they enter into marriage.
Where to Get The Certificate Of No Impediment For Marriage?
The marriage license is issued by the Directorate of the institution. To obtain a document, couples must submit an application together. Couples under Turkish law can get a marriage certificate by contacting the Population Office with identity cards. Issued for each person in one copy.
- The document that identifying the applicant
- Citizenship (fully indicated)
- Province and district
- Neighbourhood and village
- Volume number, page number, journal line number and individual line number
- Gender
- Name
- Last Name
- Previous Last Name
- Father’s name (live or dead)
- Mother’s name (live or dead)
- Place of Birth
- Date of birth and religion
- Registration date must be written in full.
After that, the completed information is checked for compliance with the requirements of marriage registration, if there is an obstacle to entering into marriage, the reason should be clearly indicated. Later, by the date of issuance and signing of the document, the document will have become legal. At the bottom of the marriage certificate, 2019 should be written the name and surname of the officer who issued the document.
Measures To Prevent The Marriages With Juvenile Girls
The certificate of the majority of applicants is a particularly important document recently in Turkey, in connection with the fight against the marriage of underage girls.
Since 2010, the state in a coordinated manner has been working together with non-governmental organizations and associations to eradicate the problem of underage marriages and child brides. Certificate of majority and marriage license, indicating the age of the newlyweds, confirms the applicants' right to register an alliance. Together with it a medical certificate is provided along with copies of ID and CNI or parental consent for exceptional cases of underage marriages.
Marriage with a Foreigner, Required Documents 
The certificate of no impediment for marriage is one of the most important documents for foreign citizens wishing to marry in Turkey with a Turkish. A foreigner who intends to marry a citizen of Turkey must submit the following documents:
- To register a marriage of a Turkish citizen with a foreigner, a Marriage Registration Application signed by both sides is required.
- Passport of a stranger with official confirmation of his validity by state authorities.
- In addition, a certificate of marital status confirming that both persons are not married, a foreigner must submit that there are no obstacles to marriage by CNI issued by the official institutions of his country or in the official consulate.
- The birth certificate, which must be submitted along with the above certificate, must be approved by the Office of Legal Affairs of the Istanbul Province. Citizens living in Ankara are also able to get this permission from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Details Of The Certificate Of No Impediment
Undoubtedly, there are aspects that should be emphasized in the certificate which approves that there are no difficulties for foreign citizen’s marriage. The birth certificate of a foreign person, CNI must be verified first by the official authorities of his country, and then by Turkey, must be accredited by the provincial administrations. The certificate of the absence of obstacles to marriage, which is not approved by the Turkish authorities, is inoperative, regardless of its nature.
At the same time, these documents are confirming the marital status of persons as unmarried, and so that they do not have any disincentive to marriage (this statement can be accentuated differently on the relevant document). Another situation which should not be overlooked here is that the verifying of documents are invalid, if they are received from the consulates, but not confirmed by the Turkish authorities. For this reason, the approbation of a marriage license should not be made by honorary consulates, but by the authorities specified by law.
