Registration in Argentina of a marriage or divorce performed in Japan

According to current regulations, the Consular Offices of Argentine Representations abroad do NOT carry out registrations of marriages or divorces.

For a marriage performed abroad to have legal effect in Argentina, it must be registered with the Civil Status and Capacity Registry, a registry that only proceeds by judicial order.

The judicial process is at the request of the parties involved and can be carried out by a lawyer in Argentina. This Consular Section may only assist in the management of the Power of Attorney that the Argentine citizen provides to authorize the lawyer to carry out the process in Argentina.

The summary process, before a civil judge, verifies the intrinsic requirements of the act and the extrinsic formalities of the presented document. According to Article 77 of Law No. 26,413 of the Civil Status and Capacity Registry, "Certificates of marriages and their dissolution sentences performed in other countries may be registered as long as they comply with the legal provisions in force, both regarding their extrinsic formalities and intrinsic validity."