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Registration Service Certificate Ordering Service

Information about ordering or correcting birth, death, marriage and civil partnership certificates

Please note: All standard certificate production will be suspended from Wednesday 18 December 2024 until Thursday 2 January 2025. We will be unable to process any express orders from Monday 23 December 2024 until Thursday January 2 2025. The last day to dispatch any express orders will be Friday 20 December.

Certificate Services

Please note: once the certificate(s) leave us we cannot be held liable for any losses.

Services
Service	Price	Production	Delivery	Sent via
Express Service	Statutory price per certificate £38.50	Ordered before 12:00pm: production same working day Ordered after 12:00pm: production next working day	Ordered before 12:00pm: delivered next working day Ordered after 12:00pm: delivered within 2 Working days	Sent via Royal Mail Special Delivery (signature required on delivery)
Standard Service UK	Statutory price per certificate: £12.50	Statutory production time for this service is within 15 days of ordering. We will endeavour to despatch within 5 working days.	Delivered within 2-3 working days from despatch.	Sent via Royal Mail 1st Class Signed For (recorded mail, signature required on delivery)
Standard Service Overseas	Statutory price per certificate: £12.50 Postage cost: £6.00	Statutory production time for this service is within 15 days of ordering. We will endeavour to despatch within 5 working days.	Delivered within 5-7 working days from dispatch.	Sent via Royal Mail International Tracked and Signed For (signature required on delivery)

Type of certificate issued

All certificates issued by Worcestershire Registration Service are known as 'certified copies of an entry'. This means that it is a legal copy of the registration contained within the Birth, Marriage, Death or Civil Partnership Register.

Birth certificates issued by Worcestershire Registration Services are the 'full birth certificate'. This is the one that includes parents' details and is used to obtain passports, open bank accounts, for Job applications, Driving licences etc. We no longer issue short birth certificates.