- Births
- Births
- Introduction
- Who should go to register?
- Where do I go?
- What documents do I need?
- What information will I be asked for?
- If I don't speak English very well, what do I do?
- When do I get the birth certificate?
- Can I register a birth when a child is older?
- How do I register a child conceived after fertility treatment?
- What happens if the father dies before a child is conceived?
- Parental responsibility
- Can I change something in the birth record at a later date?
- How do I correct an error?
- Can I change my child’s forenames?
- Can I change my child’s surname?
- Can I use a name different from my birth record?
- Can the natural father's details be added to the record?
- The natural parents have married each other since the birth
- Court issued Declaration of Parentage
- Re-registering a child born via a surrogacy arrangement
- Re-registering a child where the father died before the child was conceived
- Further queries on corrections or re-registrations?
- Gender Recognition Act 2004
- Can I obtain a birth certificate in my new gender
- How to apply for Gender Recognition
- Registering babies born abroad
- Babies born as British citizens
- Babies born to serving members of the British Armed Forces
- How do I find my local register office?
- How to obtain birth certificates
- Registering a birth
- Parental responsibility
- Can I change the birth record at a later date?
- Gender Recognition
- Registering babies born abroad
- How do I find my local register office?
- Obtaining birth certificates
- Deaths
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Who should register?
- Where do I go?
- What documents do I need?
- What information will I be asked for?
- I don't speak English very well what do I do?
- When do I get the death certificate?
- Why is a coroner sometimes involved?
- Can I change the death record?
- Registering an overseas death?
- Removing the body out of England or Wales
- Local register office
- How to obtain death certificates
- Registering a death
- Can I change the death record at a later date?
- Registering an overseas death
- Removing the body out of England or Wales
- How do I find my local register office?
- Obtaining death certificates
- Stillbirths
- Stillbirths
- Introduction
- What is the definition of a stillbirth?
- Why is registration necessary?
- Who should register?
- Where do I go?
- What documents do I need?
- What information will I be asked for?
- If I don’t speak English very well, what do I do?
- Introduction
- Who can I contact about making a correction?
- How do I find my local register office?
- How to obtain stillbirth certificates
- Registering a stillbirth
- Can I change the still-birth record at a later date?
- Who can I contact about making a correction?
- How do I find my local register office?
- Obtaining Stillbirth Certificates
- Marriages
- Introduction
- Religious marriages
- Civil marriages
- Finding your local register office
- Finding an approved venue
- Getting married abroad
- Can I register my overseas marriage in England and Wales?
- Overview: Giving notice
- Residency requirements
- Documentation required
- How to obtain a copy of a divorce or dissolution
- Where to give notice
- Marriage Fees
- Adding personal touches
- Ceremony in Welsh
- FAQs
- How to obtain marriage certificates
- How to order overseas certificates
- Correcting a marriage entry
- Correcting a marriage entry
- Where can I marry?
- What I need to do
- How much will it cost?
- Your wedding ceremony
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Obtaining marriage certificates
- Correcting a marriage entry
- Civil Partnerships
- Introduction
- Overview
- Where to give notice
- Residency requirements
- Giving notice in Wales
- Documentation required
- Divorces/civil partnership dissolutions
- Where can you register a civil partnership?
- Can we include a ceremony in our civil partnership registration?
- Cost of registering a civil partnership
- Registering a civil partnership in Wales
- Registering a civil partnership abroad
- Finding your local registration authority
- Search for an approved venue
- How to obtain a certificate
- Correcting a record
- Partnerships registered overseas
- Introduction
- What details will I see and need to supply?
- How to apply and pay
- Certificate fees
- Delivery
- Refunds and cancellations
- Legalising Certificates for overseas purposes
- Scotland and Northern Ireland
- Obtaining new certificates if a record has changed
- Giving notice
- Registering a civil partnership
- After registration
- Obtaining civil partnership certificates
- Adoptions
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Overseas adoption
- Step parent and couples adoptions
- What is an adoption certificate?
- What information do I need to supply?
- How to apply and pay
- Certificate fees
- Legalising certificates for overseas purposes
- Delivery
- Refunds and cancellations
- Frequently asked questions
- Introduction
- Adopted before 1975
- Adopted after 1975
- How to apply
- What will happen at the interview?
- Will there be an adoption file and what will be in it?
- Adopted in Scotland or Ireland
- Introduction
- Introduction
- Adopted person making contact with a birth relative
- Birth relative making contact with an adopted person
- Adopted person making contact with an adopted birth relative
- No contact
- How to apply and pay
- Contact Register fees
- What happens when a link is made?
- Frequently asked questions
- Adopted Children Register
- Adoption certificates
- Access to Birth Records for adopted persons
- Access to Adoption Records for birth relatives
- Adoption Contact Register
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- Introduction
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