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Copy Adoption Certificates

Copy Adoption Certificates Online

Copy Certificates Online

Good Morning, Welcome to UK Record Office!

This site exists to help you obtain a copy adoption certificate as quickly and as easily as possible.


Copy Adoption Birth Certificate


After an Adoption has been recorded in the Adopted Children Register. They replace any certificates of the original birth record and the adoption certificate should be used for all legal purposes.
  • Replace a Adoption Certificate New or Duplicate
The certificate will normally include Full Adoption Name, Date of Birth, Sex, Place of Birth (where known), Adoptive Parent(s') name(s), their address and Occupation at time of adoption, Date of the Adoption Order and description of the court which made it; Date of entry into the Adopted Children Register.

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

Copy Adoption Certificates

All copy 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 copy 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 mother or 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.

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 - Apostille Countries.

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 birth 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.

Further Information



Registers of births, marriages and deaths

Copies of marriage certificates

Copies of birth certificates

Copies of death certificates

We assume that the information supplied is accurate, and so cannot bear responsibility for any issues developing from any information which is inaccurately supplied. However, we will endeavour to locate and order the correct certificate, and so if the information supplied does not match the records we locate, we will contact you to resolve this.