Panama Information

Marriage in Panama

July 2007

1. Fill out the application for a license to enter into marriage before the competent court for the jurisdiction where at least one of the parties live.
   
2. Health Certificate, including: a. General Medical Exam, b. Lab Tests: Hemoglobin Electrophoresis, Hematic Biometry, VDRL, Urinalysis. These documents must be issued within the last 15 days prior to the ceremony by a registered physician.
   
3. Birth Certificate
   
4. If the parties have not been married previously, a certificate (Certificado de Solteria) to that effect must be presented.
   
   For Panamanian citizens: The aforementioned certificates can be obtained free of charge at the Civil Registry Office. For foreign citizens: The Birth Certificate must be issued in your country of origin. The certificate stating your civil status (Certificado de Solteria) must be issued in the country where you have been residing the last 2 years. Both certificates must be authenticated.
   
5. Two witnesses of legal age, not related to any of the parties (i.e. within the fourth grade of consanguinity or second degree of kinship or by adoption). Which means the following cannot be a witness: brother/sister, cousin, uncle/aunt, nephew/niece, son/daughter-in-law, father/mother- in-law or brother sister-in-law-of the couple to be married.
   
6. "Cedula" or passport with corresponding visa.