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General Register Office certificate application forms

Guidance notes and application forms for birth, adoption, death, marriage or civil partnership certificates.

Updates to this page

From:
HM Passport Office
Published:
15 October 2012
Last updated:
11 April 2025
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  1. Updated the marriage certificate application form.

  2. Updated 2.1 on marriage certificates section and added accessible version of application guidance.

  3. Updated the adoption certificate application form.

  4. Adoption certificate application form updated to show new email address for General Register Office.

  5. New adoption certificate application form uploaded.

  6. Replaced all the documents with new versions.

  7. Updated the guidance notes document.

  8. First published.

Applies to England and Wales

Documents

General Register Office (GRO) application form guidance notes

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Birth certificate application form

PDF, 344 KB, 2 pages

Marriage certificate application form

PDF, 224 KB, 2 pages

Death certificate application form

PDF, 221 KB, 2 pages

Adoption certificate application form

PDF, 438 KB, 2 pages

Civil partnership certificate application form

PDF, 225 KB, 2 pages

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Overseas birth certificate application form

PDF, 205 KB, 2 pages

Overseas marriage certificate application form

PDF, 264 KB, 2 pages

Overseas death certificate application form

PDF, 206 KB, 2 pages

Overseas civil partnership certificate application form

PDF, 230 KB, 2 pages

Details

Guidance notes and forms to order birth, adoption, death, marriage or civil partnership certificates for events registered:

  • in England
  • in Wales
  • overseas

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