Applying online for Certificate of Absence of Marriage Record

If you need to apply for a certificate of absence of marriage record, you can use the Immigration Department’s online service. This article will give you the details.

How and Where to Apply

To apply for a certificate of absence of marriage record, you are required to complete an application form and pay the prescribed fee for a search of marriage record.

If the search result shows that you have no marriage record in Hong Kong, a certificate of absence of marriage record will be issued on payment of the prescribed fee. Otherwise, a letter of marriage record indicating the date(s) of your previous marriage(s) will be issued.

Online Application for Certificate of Absence of Marriage Record

Processing Time

If all necessary documents and fees are received upon application, it normally takes 7 working days (Monday to Friday excluding General Holidays).

Fees

Search of marriage record: HK$140

Certificate of absence of marriage record : HK$680

Collection of Certificate of Absence of Marriage Record

As the search of records will take time, the result will not be immediately available online. You or an authorised representative will be asked to select a Marriage Registry for collection of the result in person.

When you complete the online application, the collection date will be shown on the acknowledgement receipt. Please remember to print or save the acknowledgement receipt, or write down the application reference, collection date and selected registry for collection. You are required to produce the printout or provide the application reference number as well as other necessary documents upon collection at your selected Marriage Registry.

The uncollected search result and / or the certificate concerned will be cancelled six months after the date of application.

Supporting Documents to be Produced on Collection

When you collect your result from the selected Marriage Registry of the Immigration Department, you will need to produce the following supporting documents:

  • Hong Kong Identity Card or valid travel document
  • Printout of online application acknowledgement

If you are an authorised representative, apart from the documents mentioned above, you will also need to produce the following supporting documents:

  • Your Hong Kong Identity Card or valid travel document
  • Original copy of the authorisation letter
  • Evidence supporting that the data subject is outside Hong Kong or that he/she is in Hong Kong but unable to collect the result in person
  • Copy of the data subject’s travel document bearing his/her personal data and signature and properly certified by a Notary Public (applicable if the data subject’s travel document was not issued by the Hong Kong Immigration Department)

 

Assistance and Further Information

If you need technical assistance in using the online service, you can call the Immigration e-Services Hotline at (852) 3128 8668 between 7 am and 11 pm daily.

For general enquiries, please call (852) 2824 6111 during office hours (from 8:45 am to 5:15 pm, Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 12 noon on Saturday, except public holidays), send a fax to (852) 2877 7711 or send an email to enquiry@immd.gov.hk.

Please collect the result at your selected Marriage Registry on the “collection date” shown on acknowledgement receipt.

Should you have any other enquiries about this application, you may contact the Marriage Registry selected for collection purposes directly.

Addresses and Office Hours of Marriage Registries

Further information on the service is also available in a set of helpful frequently asked questions.

FAQs about Applying Online for Certificate of Absence of Marriage Record
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Last revision date: August 2023