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Create a Declaration of Marital Status
What this document does
A sworn statement of whether you are unmarried, married, divorced or widowed. Used for visas, marriage registration, pension and insurance claims, and by foreign employers. Made by one person about their own status; for a declaration by both spouses together that they are married, use the Joint Declaration of Marriage.
Declaration
The date you sign and verify it — printed in the verification paragraph. Today's date is filled in; change it if you are signing on another day.
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Declaration of Marital Status
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What else is in it — 3 clauses, 7 optional
- 01
Deponent
The opening recital naming who is making the statement — name, age, parentage and address. The only clause carrying the deponent's personal particulars, and the one that sets whether the document reads as declared, affirmed or sworn.
- 02
No fraudulent intent
Disclaims any intent to evade a debt, tax, obligation or proceeding. Takes no input. Banks and passport authorities routinely refuse a document that omits it, which is why it is mandatory rather than optional.
- 03
Verification
Affirms the numbered assertions above are true and nothing material is concealed, and carries the deponent's signature block. This is the paragraph that makes a false statement actionable — sworn or not.
After it is drafted
Getting it sworn before a notary
If the office asks for a sworn affidavit rather than a signed declaration, this is what that involves: non-judicial stamp paper of the value your state sets for affidavits, the signed copy printed on it, and a visit to a notary or oath commissioner with your identity document. They administer the oath and complete the attestation block — that is what turns a declaration into an affidavit, and the only part of any of this that needs stamp paper. Worth asking the office before you go, since many now accept the declaration as it stands.
Sending the certificate or decree along with it
Where there is a marriage certificate, a divorce decree or a death certificate behind what you have declared, it generally travels with this. The declaration is your own statement of the position; the record is the independent proof of it, and most offices want both.
Attestation or apostille, for use outside India
A foreign embassy or consulate will usually not take an Indian declaration on its own: it wants Ministry of External Affairs attestation, or an apostille where the destination is a Hague Convention country. That is arranged through an MEA-authorised agency rather than at the notary's desk, so it is a separate errand from getting it sworn.