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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 downloading and emailing the completed form to GROonlinepayments@welfare.ie
Application for certificate of Birth/Death/Marriage/Adoption/Civil Partnership (by email)
Updated: May 2022
DownloadPlease download this form, follow instructions and email 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.
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, (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.
A 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.
