Short answer: Georgia does not ask for one. The longer answer depends on your own country, because some countries want their citizens to have one before or after they marry abroad. Here is how to tell which case you are in.
Published 21 October 2026 by TARGMANEBI. Checked against the Law of Georgia on Civil Status Acts and the Public Service Development Agency rules.
A certificate of no impediment, often shortened to CNI, is a document a country issues to its own citizen to confirm that they are free to marry: not already married, of age, and not barred from the marriage they plan. Different countries give it different names, such as a single status certificate, a certificate of capacity to marry or a "nulla osta", and some issue a sworn declaration instead. Its purpose is always the same: to show a foreign registry that there is no legal obstacle under the person's own law.
Whether you need one is not decided by the document itself. It is decided by two questions: does the country where you marry ask for it, and does your own country ask for it, either before you marry abroad or when you register the marriage at home afterwards?
Georgia answers the first question with a no. The registry does not list a certificate of no impediment among the documents foreigners bring.
Full list: documents to marry in Georgia.
Sources: Law of Georgia on Civil Status Acts; Public Service Development Agency.
Even though Georgia does not ask for it, you may still meet the certificate. These are the cases we see.
Some countries expect their citizens to obtain proof of capacity to marry before a marriage abroad, or recommend it. Your embassy or registry office will tell you. For British nationals, for example, the UK government publishes separate guidance on getting proof that you are free to marry abroad.
When you register the Georgian marriage at home, some registry offices ask how your capacity to marry was checked. Bringing the certificate you already obtained, or knowing what your registry accepts, can save a delay.
Some couples obtain a CNI before they know Georgia does not need it. You can bring it: it does no harm. If you want the registrar to see it, it needs an apostille or legalization and a notarized Georgian translation, like any foreign document.
The most reliable answer comes from the office that will record your Georgian marriage in your home country: a registry office, a municipality or a consulate. Ask them two things: whether they need anything issued before the wedding, and what they will need afterwards. Ask for the answer in writing if you can, and send it to us. The wording usually tells us exactly what format they expect for the certificate and its translation.
Many governments publish a page on marrying abroad with a list of documents. Those pages often say that requirements depend on the country where you marry. For Georgia, the answer to that part is simple: no CNI, but passports, proof of lawful stay, proof that any earlier marriage has ended and two witnesses.
A certificate of no impediment is issued by your own country, so it can only be obtained there or through your embassy. It needs an apostille, or a consular legalization if your country is not a party to the Apostille Convention. If it is to be shown in Georgia, we translate the certificate and its apostille into Georgian and the translation is notarized in Tbilisi, ready the same or the next day.
Most couples who marry in Georgia never need a certificate of no impediment. The document that does decide most weddings is the divorce decree, if either of you was married before.
What your home registry will ask for after the wedding matters more than any document before it. In most cases that is the Georgian marriage certificate with an apostille, or a legalization for countries outside the Convention, and a translation into your language. Knowing this before you travel lets us plan the whole file in one go.
No. The Georgian registry does not list one. You confirm in the joint application that there is no bar to the marriage, and if you were married before, you bring proof that the earlier marriage has ended.
Because some countries ask their own citizens for one before or after a marriage abroad, and guides mix that up with Georgia's requirements. Georgia itself does not ask for it.
Only if your own country asks for it. If you already have one, you can bring it; to show it to the registrar it needs an apostille or legalization and a notarized Georgian translation.
From your own country, usually through the registry office or your embassy. It cannot be issued in Georgia.
If it is to be shown in Georgia, yes, or a consular legalization for countries outside the Apostille Convention, plus a notarized Georgian translation.
Your confirmation in the joint application, your passports, and for anyone who was married before, the divorce decree or death certificate that shows the earlier marriage has ended.
Recognition depends on your country's rules, not on the CNI as such. Ask the office that will register the marriage what it needs; in most cases it is the apostilled or legalized Georgian certificate with a translation.
Yes. We translate the certificate and its apostille into Georgian, and the translation is notarized in Tbilisi, ready the same or the next day.
Send your passports and your planned date. We reply with a document checklist and a timeline for your wedding.
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