{"id":2047,"date":"2022-08-25T15:35:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T13:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conslondra.esteri.it\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino\/stato-civile\/unioni-civili-tra-persone-dello-stesso-sesso\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:01:26","slug":"unioni-civili-tra-persone-dello-stesso-sesso","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conslondra.esteri.it\/en\/servizi-consolari-e-visti\/servizi-per-il-cittadino\/stato-civile\/unioni-civili-tra-persone-dello-stesso-sesso\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Partnership between persons of the same gender"},"content":{"rendered":"

PLEASE NOTE: Opposite-sex partnerships cannot be registered in Italy<\/span>,\u00a0<\/strong>as such unions are not recognised under Italian law. If sent to this Consulate for registration in Italy, they will be returned.<\/p>\n

Trancription of Entries in the Civil Partnership Registry and Marriage certificates solemnized abroad between persons of the same gender.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By a recent Italian legislation (Law No 76 on 20.05.2016, entered into force on 05.06.2016 and DPCM (Decree of the President of the Council of Ministers) No 144 on 23.07.2016, entered into force on 29.07.2016, you can now request through the Consular authorities, registration for Entries in the Civil Partnership Registry or Marriage certificates, solemnized abroad between persons of the same gender (article 8, paragraph 3); said registration will be carried out by the appropriate Italian Municipality.<\/p>\n

The afore-mentioned documents will be transcribed into the Italian National Registry such as ”civil partnerships”; transcription will take place in a Provisional Register for Civil Partnerships that has been established in each Italian Municipality (article 9, paragraph 1, DPCM 144\/2016). In all related documents and deeds, marital status of persons will be specified as \u2018\u2019civil partners\u2019\u2019 if requested (article 7, paragraph 2, DPCM 144\/2016).<\/p>\n

In order to obtain in Italy a registration for an Entry of Civil Partnership in the Registry or a Marriage certificate between persons of the same gender, solemnized in the United Kingdom, please send to this Consulate General the following documentation :<\/p>\n

1. application form (please click here<\/a> – Form n. 17) signed by both civil partners; please submit all the necessary information, specifically, your father and mother\u2019s details, place and date of the civil partnership (or marriage), both partners\u2019 previous marital status:<\/p>\n

2. your Entry of Civil Partnership in the Registry (or your Marriage Certificate), in the original, completed with the ”Apostille” (International legalization-see below) issued by the British Foreign Office, with full translation into Italian (click here<\/a>\u00a0for a list of Translators known Consulate-General)<\/p>\n

3. photocopy of valid Italian passports or identity cards for the two civil partners;<\/p>\n

To obtain an Apostille please contact: The Legalisation Office \u2013 Foreign And Commonwealth Office \u2013 P.O. Box 6255 \u2013 Milton Keynes MK10 1XX \u2013 web address: https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/get-document-legalised<\/a>; email:\u00a0Legalisation@fcdo.gov.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. mail the above documentation by Special Delivery, to: CONSULATE GENERAL OF ITALY \u2013 LONDON Registry Office \u2013 3rd floor \u2013 ” Harp House ” \u2013 83\/86 Farringdon Street \u2013 EC4A 4BL London.<\/p>\n

Please be informed that in case of incorrect or incomplete documentation, your application will\u00a0not\u00a0be processed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

N.B. Please note that if all the documentation is complete and correct and we positively process the application, this Consulate will NOT<\/strong>\u00a0return any paperwork submitted.<\/p>\n

\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLEASE NOTE: Opposite-sex partnerships cannot be registered in Italy,\u00a0as such unions are not recognised under Italian law. If sent to this Consulate for registration in Italy, they will be returned. Trancription of Entries in the Civil Partnership Registry and Marriage certificates solemnized abroad between persons of the same gender. By a recent Italian legislation (Law […]","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":448,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2047","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conslondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conslondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conslondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conslondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conslondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/conslondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15143,"href":"https:\/\/conslondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2047\/revisions\/15143"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conslondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conslondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}