MARGINAL ENTRIES

Any change in civil status or family situation must be reported to include it in the civil status documents.

Marriage note

The notices of marriage to be entered on the civil status certificates of Algerian nationals born in Algeria and married in France are sent directly by the French town halls which celebrated the marriage to the Algerian municipalities which cover the places of birth of the persons concerned. The Algerian civil registrar acknowledges receipt of the notice, after having carried out the transfer of the mention in the margin of the act on the register.

Nevertheless, some French town halls send these notices of mention through the civil status department of the consulate, which in turn sends them to the town halls concerned.

Persons whose birth certificate has not been updated are invited to contact the town halls of the place of celebration of the marriage in order to request that the notice of mention of the marriage be sent to the town hall of the place of birth. .

People who celebrated their marriage with our consular district and whose civil status in Algeria has not been updated are invited to check whether the notice of marriage has been sent to the town hall of the place of born in Algeria.

Persons born and married abroad whose birth certificates were transcribed before marriage must request the transcription of the marriage certificate from the Algerian consulate with territorial jurisdiction, in order to update their civil status. at the consulate that transcribed the birth.

Persons born abroad and married in Algeria whose birth certificate has already been transcribed must update their civil status by presenting a marriage certificate or a copy of the family record book issued by the Algerian town hall. where the marriage was solemnized.

Mention of divorce/Exequatur

To be enforceable by the consular services, any divorce judgment rendered by a foreign court must be endorsed by the competent court in Algeria.

To obtain the exequatur of a judgment rendered in civil matters, persons born in Algeria or abroad and divorced before a foreign court must send a request to the personal status judge of the court corresponding to the place of their birth, if they were born in Algeria or at the court of Sidi M'Hamed in Algiers, if they were born abroad.

After completion of this procedure, the court will send the notice of mention of divorce, as the case may be, to the town hall of the place of birth or to the diplomatic or consular representation which will update the civil status of the persons concerned. .

The following documents accompanied by their translation into Arabic must be attached to a handwritten application:

• The original and a photocopy of the final judgment of divorce.
• The original of the act of notification of the judgment of divorce to the opposing party (document generally provided by the bailiff responsible for serving the judgment).
• An attestation or certificate of non-opposition, no appeal and no appeal in cassation to be requested from the clerk of the foreign court that pronounced the judgment.
• If the marriage was celebrated abroad, the marriage certificate transcribed at the territorially competent diplomatic or consular representation is mandatory.
• A copy of an Algerian identity document.