Civil Marriage · From Dubai
Most court marriages we arrange for couples in Dubai take place at the Abu Dhabi Civil Family Court. If you both live in the UAE with valid Emirates IDs, you can attend by video; otherwise it is a short ceremony, an hour and a half away.
For Residents
Valid Emirates IDs for both of you open the video route.
How You Attend
Can you have a court marriage from Dubai? Yes: most of the court marriages we arrange for couples in Dubai take place at the Abu Dhabi Civil Family Court, which marries residents and visitors alike. Dubai’s own civil route is a separate process that we do not arrange. If you both live in the UAE and hold valid Emirates IDs, you may join the ceremony by video; otherwise you attend in Abu Dhabi.
A drive to the Civil Family Court beside Zayed Sports City, a brief ceremony, and your guests in the room with you.
The same court and the same certificate, with the ceremony joined by videoconference from wherever you are — in the Emirates or abroad.
The court offers video only where everyone taking part lives in the UAE, so it is not open to visitors.
Want the Abu Dhabi court’s procedure in full? Every step at the Abu Dhabi Civil Family Court
Ras Al Khaimah is the other emirate where we arrange court marriages. There, both partners must be non-Muslim, and the court sets its own conditions on where you live; we confirm them for your case.
Is Abu Dhabi Right for You
For most couples in Dubai, the Abu Dhabi court: it marries couples of any faith, Muslim UAE citizens excepted, and asks for no residency and no witnesses. Our express route there completes in 1–2 working days once your papers are ready. In Ras Al Khaimah both partners must be non-Muslim, and the court sets its own conditions on where you live.
The Abu Dhabi court concludes civil marriages irrespective of religion or nationality. The one exception its own page names is Muslim citizens of the UAE.
Each of you declares on the court’s form that you are not married to anyone else, so the court asks for no separate certificate of single status and no witnesses. On the day you bring your passports, and your Emirates IDs if you live here.
Documents in English or Arabic need no translation; whether one issued abroad needs attesting first, we check document by document. If either of you was married before, the divorce judgment or death certificate goes in with the application.
Our express route completes in 1–2 working days once your papers are in order, and you choose the date and time yourselves. On the regular route, dates are booking about three months ahead in our experience.
Abu Dhabi’s civil marriage law sets the minimum age at 18 for both partners, and neither may be married to anyone else.
Ras Al Khaimah is the other emirate where we arrange court marriages. Both partners must be non-Muslim, and the court sets its own conditions on where you live, which we confirm for your case; its standard route takes about three weeks in our experience.
From Dubai, Step by Step
Your Emirates IDs or visas, any previous marriage, and whether your date is fixed or still open.
Passports and Emirates IDs, and the divorce or death certificate where one of you was married before.
Prepared with you and filed online. The court approves it, takes its fee and emails the date.
Regular: the court offers a date, subject to availability. Express: you pick the day and the time yourselves.
At the court beside Zayed Sports City, with our chauffeur if you wish, or by video from wherever you are if you are both residents.
Issued in Arabic and English once the ceremony is digitally authenticated, then attested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
What's Included
One advisor keeps your file from the first document check to the attested certificate. The court decides; we keep everything it needs complete and on time.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Send us whether you both hold valid Emirates IDs, your nationalities and the month you have in mind. We tell you whether video is open to you and how soon the court could marry you.
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The Next Step
Tell us whether you both live in the UAE and the date you have in mind. We reply within 48 hours with the route that fits and what to prepare first.
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