How to restore lost birth certificate

In case of loss, the birth certificate should immediately restore it.

The easiest way to restore the birth certificate to those who live in the city in which was born. You should contact the city registry office, write an application for the restoration of the lost birth certificate. The re-registration procedure takes from several days to week.

Download application form on the restoration of the lost birth certificate You can on our website.

If you live in another region, to restore a lost document, you need to contact the registry office in the city at the place of residence. In this institution, you should write a statement about the restoration of the certificate, and that its duplicate is sent to you. At the same time, the registry care worker will write a request to the city where you were born. Duplicate birth certificate will come by mail by registered mail to the passage address a few days after writing a statement. And your address will be notified of the delivery of the document and the invitation to receive it in the registry office, where the application was filed. Refurbished birth certificate is issued after presenting a passport personally in hand.

Download an example of a completed application for the restoration of birth certificate we have.

If you want to restore the child's birth certificate, you should contact the district registry office, where the child was registered (it was issued a lost certificate), write a statement of the established sample. If at the moment you live in another city, you need to contact the local registry office, whose employees will make a request at the place of registration of the child. Duplicate will come by mail, it will need to get in the registry office after presenting a parent's passport. To the application for a recovery of birth certificate must be attached to such documents:

passport Father and Mother;
certificate of marriage between parents;
receipt of payment of state duty (its value is 200 rubles, details can be found on the registry office of the registry office).

If the registry office refuses to issue a duplicate birth certificate, should be applied to the court with a statement filed. But for this you need to have a written response from the registry office of the impossibility of providing a duplicate of the lost document. Such a situation may occur, for example, if the child needs to get a duplicate document independently, without the help of parents (parents are deprived of parental rights, divorced). In this case, the registry office simply will not be able to establish the identity of the applicant, so will respond with refusal. And in court, this refusal can be appealed by identifying a person. As soon as the court decision comes into force, it will be possible to receive a duplicate birth certificate in the registry office.

There are also such cases when it is required to restore the birth certificate of the deceased person (for example, for the design of the inheritance). The most optimal option is to appeal to the registry office, in which the deceased person was registered. However, relatives often do not know where the deceased received a birth certificate. Then you should send a request to the archive of the city registry office (district), in which a person was born. Of course, the search for information in this case can delay, but still the result you will receive: you will be given a certificate with the necessary information. In addition, you can contact the registry office at the place of residence and explain the situation. Employees of the institution themselves can easily send the necessary requests to the right places and provide you with the answer. Together with the application you need to provide such documents: