You do not need to update the Registry of Marriages (ROM) if you have changed your name, marital status or identity type or number.

However, if you are a Singapore Citizen or Permanent Resident, you may consider updating your details in MyInfo for ease of transacting with Government agencies. To check your current marital status, please go to your Singpass app and view under My Profile-Family. If you wish to update your marital status, please click here.

Marriage records kept in the State Marriage Register are historical records. Once solemnisation has taken place and the marriage is registered, couples' details captured at the point of marriage may not be updated. To facilitate verification of identity, you may present to the transacting organisation, your previous identification document (displaying your former name and the same identification number from your marriage certificate), along with Deed Poll and current identification document reflecting your current name.

Marriage records kept in the State Marriage Register are considered historical records. Hence, once a solemnisation has taken place and the marriage is registered, the couple's details captured at the point of marriage may not be updated.

If a divorce certificate is in Malay, Chinese, Tamil or Bahasa Indonesia, translation to English is not required. However, if the divorce certificate is in other foreign languages, translation to English by a certified interpreter is required.

While there is no requirement for a divorce certificate to be notarised, a notarised marriage certificate will facilitate the verification of documents. If you intend to notarise the document, you may approach the relevant country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or its Embassy in Singapore.

You do not need to update the Registry of Marriages on the change of your marital status.

However, if you are a Singaporean or Permanent Resident, you may consider updating your marital status in MyInfo for ease of transacting with government agencies. To check your current marital status, please go to your Singpass app and view under My Profile-Family. If you wish to update your marital status, please click here.

If your marriage has been made null and void by the court and you were single prior to the nullified marriage, please select 'Single' as your marital status when submitting a marriage application. During your appointment with ROM for Verification of documents and Declaration (V/D), you will need to produce your annulment papers.