Copy of a Adoption Certificate
Order a Replacement Adoption Certificate, suitable for legal uses. If you have lost your adoption certificate, or need one for family history purposes, this replacement copy will help you.
Duplicate Adoption Certificates are often essential to prove identity when applying for:
Passports
Bank accounts
Pensions
Social Security
Employer ID
Driving licence
Visas and Immigration
Divorce
Adoption
Replacement Adoption Certificates
All replacement adoption certificates we supply are fully certified copies which are
suitable for all official purposes. Some reasons for obtaining a certificate
include an application for marriage, applying for an academic course, applying
for a passport or a driver's licence. One of the most common reasons is that the
original certificate was lost or mislaid.
Replacement adoption certificates do not require a signed release or similar for
the order to be processed. Nor does further documentation (e.g. driver's licence
or passport) have to produced.
Generally, there will be no special needs for the
order to be completed, beyond the initial supplying of information and
payment.
Types of replacement adoption certificates
There are two types of adoption certificates, the full adoption certificate. This is a copy of the entry in the adoption register, giving all the recorded details, the short certificate.
This only gives the child's full name, Date of Birth, Sex and (where known) country or district of birth. It contains no reference to the fact of adoption. It does not give the name and particulars of the adopted mother or adopted father. A short certificate is issued free of charge when an adoption is first registered.
There is no choice between non certified and certified - all certificates
issued are certified. All certificates issued are issued with an official seal,
some certificates have a raised seal or a stamped seal.
We can supply birth certificates from the United Kingdom (UK) of Great
Britain (GB)
England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, and many overseas
births where the location was once a British territory, or if the event was
registered with a British consulate.
UK Records Office provides an apostille service to assist you in acquiring official UK Apostille Certificates for UK documents. The Apostille Certificate is
normally requested by foreign authorities and organisations so that the document can be used for official purposes outside of the UK. It is also referred to as legalisation. This means that the documents have to be legalised correctly before you travel and often within a specific time period.
Require an Apostille (Legalised) UK Certificate? An Apostille is a certificate confirming that a signature or a seal on a certificate is genuine. The process of obtaining an Apostille is called Legalisation.
Legalisation is usually required by foreign authorities before they will allow a UK document to be used for official purposes in their country. Apostille Certificates issued in the UK will be accepted in the following countries without further legalisation. Order a UAE Legalisation Service, Qatar Legalisation Service or Kuwait Legalisation Service or Egypt Legalisation Service.
Order your Adoption Certificate today
Replacement of a lost adoption certificate
Searches of the records in UKOS's Office for details of adoptions usually for copy certificates. Copy certificates can only be obtained via the online order form, the certificate would contain the adoption details first registered. The minimum information needed to find an entry is the name of the person, place of birth and year the adoption took place.
Replacement of a lost adoption certificate
The minimum information we will require for an adoption record in is:
- Did the event take place at Wales?
- Was the person adopted
- Full name at the time of adoption
- Year of adoption
- Full name of Adopted Mother or Father
We can carry out searches of adoption records in the area for details of adoptions usually for copy adoption certificates. Copy adoption certificates can only be obtained via the online order form, the certificate would contain the adopted details first registered.
Apply via the Post
To apply via the post write to the following address:
Record Office UK
(Adoption Certificate)
4200 Waterside Centre
B 3 7 7 Y N