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Apply for birth, death, marriage, adoption, civil partnership and stillbirth certificates
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The HSE have resumed issuing certificates on the website www.certificates.ie.
The General Register Office can only complete new orders for certificates, and do not have any access to orders already processed by the HSE.
We will process your order as soon as possible, but there may be a waiting period due to the significant increase in demand.
You can order a certificate of birth, death, marriage, adoption and civil partnership from the General Register Office by emailing GROonlinepayments@welfare.ie
You can apply directly by email to GROonlinepayments@welfare.ie where you have the information below.
- Your full name
- Your address to send certificate to
- Full name of person on the birth certificate
- Their date of birth
- Their mother’s maiden name
- The place of birth (if known)
- Your full name
- Your address to send certificate to
- Full name of party 1
- Full name of party 2
- Date of marriage
- The place of marriage (if known)
- Your full name
- Your address to send certificate to
- Full name of deceased
- Date of death
- Place of death (if known)
or
When you do not have all of the information and require GRO to search the register for the record use the application form below.
Application for certificate of Birth/Death/Marriage/Adoption/Civil Partnership (by email)
This is the application form for ordering a birth, death or marriage certificate by email. Updated- 02/2021
DownloadPlease download this form, follow instructions and e-mail to GROonlinepayments@welfare.ie
If you require a multilingual standard form you must order this with the certificate.
GRO will contact you with a pay link when the record has been found.
When you have completed the online payment, we will post your certificate to the address nominated in your email.
The older form which requested credit card details is no longer valid and cannot be processed by GRO due to issues surrounding customer data and financial protection issues.
Any applications on the older form will be returned to the customer, and will not be processed.
GRO regret any inconvenience this may cause, but in the interest of best practice dealing with sensitive customer financial information, it will only be possible to pay by the online link which will be securely emailed to you when you order.
If you need proof that you were not married in Ireland, or proof that someone else was not born, married or died in Ireland, GRO can provide you with a certified letter indicating that there is no evidence of an entry for a person in our registers. This letter is called a “No Trace Letter” and costs €20.00, (this fee includes the search and issue of the “No Trace” letter). A pay by link request will be issued upon receipt and examination of your enquiry.
Please email GRO at GRO@welfare.ie with details of the entry you require.
Multilingual Standard Form (MSF) can be obtained when ordering certificates from the General Register Office only, and can be used when presenting certificates to authorities in an EU member state. MSFs should accompany certificates to avoid translation requirements.
