Spouses and Same Sex Civil Union Partners

Spouses and same sex civil union partners of students, faculty or staff are eligible for a Yale University access card. While these access cards do not allow for building access, they can be used at the libraries, museums, gym (membership fee may apply), Yale transit, and other venues throughout campus. Building access exceptions are the Yale day care centers and Yale graduate on campus housing.
 
Individuals will need to provide one of the following to the departmental sponsor to obtain an access card:

• Marriage certificate (in English)
• Civil union document (only applies to same sex civil unions)
• J2 VISA with passports containing both spouses’ names

Once the departmental sponsor receives the Sponsor Identification (SI) final approval, they must forward that email to the ID Center before an access card can be issued. Please wait 24 hours after the completion and approval of the form before arriving at the ID Center.

Student Spouse Affiliates – In order to obtain an access card, the student and spouse must go to the student’s registrar and present proof of marriage/civil union as indicated above.

• Once the marriage/civil union is confirmed by the registrar, the registrar will have to fill out a SI online form to start the ID card process.
• Registrar (requestor and approver) will receive email notification of approval.
• The spouse will receive an email during this process from the registrar.
• Spouse will stop by ID Center to pick up their SI (and bring photo ID) 

Faculty/Staff Spouse Affiliates – Spouses/same sex civil union partners of faculty or staff must follow the process to obtain an access card:
 
In order to obtain a spousal access ID card, the employee and spouse must go to their department business manager and present proof of marriage/civil union as indicated above.

• Once the marriage/civil union is confirmed by the department business manager, they will have to fill out a SI online form to start the ID card process.
• Department (requestor and approver) will receive email notification of approval.
• The spouse will receive an email during this process from department.
• Spouse will stop by ID Center to pick up their SI (and bring photo ID).
• Please wait 24 hours after the completion/approval of the form before arriving at the ID Center