If a person wants to present a document (marriage, divorced, unmarried or single status certificates etc.) in Sweden and Finland or in another country abroad and the document is issued by the concerned authority of Pakistan. Such document should be legalized/attested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan and countersigned and attested by the Embassy of Pakistan Sweden. The same principle and procedure apply if the document is required to be presented in another country abroad. For instance, a marriage certificate issued by the concerned authority of Pakistan and required to be presented in Portugal. That marriage certificate should be translated into English and should be attested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan and then countersigned and attested by the Pakistan Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal. If Portuguese translation is required, that could be attested from the Embassy of Portugal in Islamabad. This procedure may be slightly different country to country.
Similarly, any document issued by the concerned authority of Sweden or Finland which is required to be presented in Pakistan, the said document must be in English language and should be duly legalized/attested by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden or Finland whichever is applicable. Then that document should be countersigned and attested by the Pakistan Embassy in Sweden, which is concurrently accredited to Finland as well.
If any person wants to change his or her marital status in Pakistan NADRA System that can be done online on NADRA website by applying online for the modification of NICOP or CNIC. All services provided by NADRA are online.
Recently, many Pakistanis residing in Finland faced problems regarding their Marriage, Divorces, un-married certificates and other documents while presenting them in The Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV) of Finland. In order to resolve the problem of Pakistanis living in Finland, the Embassy of Pakistan in Sweden issued a letter of clarification to all the concerned authorities of Finland and Sweden. Click here to see the letter of Clarification