Can I Use Online Services For Requesting A Birth Certificate

General Information

How much does a certificate cost?
How long does it accept to get a certificate?
What should I do if I lose my birth certificate or it gets stolen?
Is my payment transaction secure?
How tin I protect my personal information?
How is encryption used to proceed my information secure?
How can I clear my browser cache?
What is a 'Cookie' and how are they used?
What is the Service Guarantee for birth certificates?
What is the Service Guarantee for matrimony/death certificates?
What is a search?
What address should I provide on the application?
How do I contact the Office of the Registrar Full general?
My name contains messages with accents. How do I enter these characters?
What do I practice if I experience a technical problem and the information I have entered on the form is erased?
What if I submitted an application grade past postal service/fax/in person and now want to submit it online - will I get a refund?
I practical for 1 certificate but I was billed for two - will I go a refund?
How can I get expedited or emergency service?

Online Application Information

What is a Premium Online Service?
Tin can I review my completed online application earlier I submit it online?
Is my data sent online?
Can I electronically salve the awarding I send online?

Complete and Print Application Information

If I use the printed application, is my information sent online?
Tin I electronically save the printed application?
If I enter my credit card information on the printed application, volition it be charged online?
Tin can I transport my printed application by e-mail?

Nascence Information

What information do I need to provide on the Online Nascency Document Application?
Who is entitled to apply for an Ontario Nascency Document?
How do I annals a birth in Ontario?
What is birth registration?
What type of nativity document is required to obtain a Canadian passport, social insurance number (SIN), Ontario Health Bill of fare (OHIP number), or Ontario driver'due south licence?
My child's birth hasn't been registered and I am required to travel with my newborn. What can I do?
Practice I need a certified copy of birth registration?
What is the deviation between a Nascence Certificate, a Birth Certificate with Parental Information and a Certified copy of a Nativity Registration?
I am an adoptee or adoptive parent. What information practice I need to provide?
Who is entitled to be a guarantor?
Tin a family member or relative be a guarantor?
How long will it accept to get a birth certificate?
Where can I get a birth certificate application course?
How can my child travel before his/her nativity is registered?
Where tin I submit my printed application?
Where should I keep my birth certificate?
Births prior to 1930
How do I obtain a nativity certificate that does not display the sex designation field?
How practise I obtain a nascency certificate with an X, a non-binary sex designation, in the sex designation field?

Marriage Information

How do I register a matrimony?
What information practise I need to provide on the Online Marriage Certificate Application?
Who is entitled to employ for a matrimony certificate?
Who is entitled to apply for a certified copy of marriage registration?
Who is entitled to apply for a matrimony certificate if one or both of the parties to the wedlock is deceased?
Who is entitled to use for a certified copy of union registration if 1 or both of the parties to the marriage is deceased?
Marriages prior to 1965

Expiry Data

How practise I register a death?
What information do I demand to provide on the Online Death Certificate Application?
Who is entitled to use for a death certificate?
Who is entitled to use for a certified re-create of a statement of expiry?
When do yous need a death certificate?
Deaths prior to 1980

General Data

To protect the security and confidentiality of our client's data, the Part of the Registrar Full general uses industry standard Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption to process online credit card payments. When the INTERAC Online service is used, the payment is completed through the financial institution's systems and over the aforementioned secure network used for INTERAC Debit.

The Online Certificate Application requires the use of a secure browser to protect your personal information. Secure browsers allow you to communicate with our application in a protected session.

When you use the application a dialog is established with our server while y'all complete the form. It is terminated and the information is deleted when you leave the application or after thirty minutes of inactivity. The Internet Protocol (IP) address of computers used may be nerveless only the IP is non linked to the identity of an private.

If you lot submit an application electronically, the data you enter will exist sent to the Office of the Registrar General when you select the Submit button.

The minimum PC browser requirements required to use these forms are capable of supporting TLS 1.2 encryption protocols. This includes the post-obit:

Microsoft Internet Explorer version 11.0 or higher
Mozilla Firefox version 27.0 or higher
Google Chrome version 38.0 or college
Safari 7.0 or college

To determine the version you are using on your current browser, from the browser Help carte du jour, select Well-nigh. A window will open providing version number for your browser

To download a more recent version of your browser that is compatible with the Online Document Awarding, use the following websites:

The Online Certificate Application automatically encrypts all your confidential information in transit from your computer to ours using the Transport Layer Security (TLS). To verify your session is secure, on your browser look for:

https: in the URL address line.
A "secure" symbol (airtight padlock or key) on the status bar of your browser, located on the lower correct portion of the browser window. Note: The condition bar must be enabled for y'all to meet the padlock or key.

To speed upwardly web browsing, internet browsers are designed to download web pages and shop them locally on your auto in an surface area called "enshroud". To ensure that no personal information is stored, information technology is advisable to clear the cache on the personal calculator you lot are using. To articulate the cache on your browser, please visit your browser's help department or support page for details.

A cookie is a small bit of information given to your browser past a web site, which can afterward be retrieved. A cookie is a way for a spider web site to recognize if y'all accept visited the site before. The cookie can simply be read past the spider web site that "set" the cookie. Cookies tin can be "session cookies" or "persistent cookies". A session cookie is a cookie that is temporarily stored in your computer'due south memory. Session cookies are usually deleted from a user's figurer when the user logs off the computer, or the user exits the browser. A persistent cookie is a cookie that is stored permanently on your workstation and is reused each fourth dimension you visit the web site.

We employ non-persistent session cookies. This helps u.s. institute a 'session' or 'dialog' between you and our server when you begin using the Online Application. Once the session is established, the Office of the Registrar General is able to tailor its responses to assist you complete your application in the most efficient and constructive fashion possible. The session cookie is deleted when our server does non receive any further requests from your reckoner. For example, session cookies are deleted when you lot exit your browser, or afterward 30 minutes of user inactivity.

What is a search?
If yous do not know the exact date of an event (nativity, marriage or death), y'all may request a search. A search verifies that an event has taken place and has been registered with the province of Ontario. In that location is a $15.00 fee for each period of upwardly to 5 years yous request to have searched.

What accost should I provide on the application?
Provide the accost where you want the Office of the Registrar Full general to transport the documents. If you take a Post Role box, yous must also provide an address with a street name and number. You are only required to utilize the Delivery Manner and Route number fields if you live in a rural area.

My proper name contains letters with accents. How do I enter these characters?

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Hold down the Altfundamental and type the number listed below using the Numeric Keypad on the right side of your keyboard.

When yous release the Alt key, the character will appear.

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What do I practise if I experience a technical trouble and the information I accept entered on the form is erased?
Your information is lost and you will have to re-enter the information.

What if I submitted an awarding form by post/fax/in person and now want to submit it online - will I go a refund?
Every person who submits an application for a certificate and thereby requests that a service be performed by the Office of the Registrar General must pay the required fee.

If you submitted multiple applications for a nascency certificate, all applications will exist processed, nonetheless, multiple certificates will not be issued. Just the most recently issued nascency certificate and certified re-create of the nascence registration will exist valid. Any previous copies will be deactivated. As processing has occurred, you lot are not eligible for a refund.

If you submitted multiple applications for a union or death certificate, all applications will be candy. Every bit there is no restriction on the number of marriage or death certificates a person may utilize for, processing has occurred and you lot are not eligible for a refund.

I applied for one certificate but I was billed for ii - will I get a refund?
If y'all did non submit multiple applications, whether by mail, in person or online, and you have been charged more than than one time, you lot may submit a Request for Refund form for evaluation.

For information call:

1-800-461-2156 (outside Toronto merely within N America)
416-325-8305 (in Toronto or outside North America)
416-325-3408 (TTY/Teletypewriter)

Online Application Data

What is a Premium Online Service?
Where rush service is required for a birth, death, or marriage certificate, customers may be able to apply for the Premium Online Service option. Eligible applications (see Terms and Conditions) are processed and delivered inside v business organisation days. Where applications are eligible for premium processing, a $30.00 surcharge will be practical per document requested.

Note: At this time Service Guarantees are not available for a Birth Document with Parental Data.

Can I review my completed online application earlier I submit it online?
In that location are a number of opportunities to review sections just you cannot run into all of the data at once. The Office of the Registrar General does not provide a method past which you may review your application online. Upon successful submission of your online awarding, you will exist presented with a payment receipt. The payment receipt includes information virtually the products you selected, and your social club and payment confirmation numbers. The Office of the Registrar Full general recommends that you print the payment receipt for your records.

Is my information sent online?
After your credit card has been charged or later on completion of an INTERAC Online payment transaction, your information is sent electronically to the Role of the Registrar Full general.

Can I electronically salve the application I send online?
No. There is no method past which you may relieve your application electronically. Upon successful submission of your online application, y'all volition be presented with a payment receipt. The payment receipt includes information about the products you selected, and your gild and payment confirmation numbers. We recommend that you print the payment receipt for your records.

Consummate and Print Application Data

If I use the printed awarding, is my information sent online?
No, the data y'all enter into this form will not be captured or sent electronically.

Can I electronically save the printed application?
No, the information you enter into this form cannot be saved electronically.

If I enter my credit card data on the printed application, will it exist charged online?
No, your credit card will not exist charged online. The Part of the Registrar Full general will charge your credit card only when the application is received.

Tin I transport my printed application past e-mail?
No. Y'all cannot send an application by email.

Birth Data

What information practise I need to provide on the Online Birth Document Awarding?

You will be asked to provide the following Information when completing the Online Birth Certificate application. Information that appears with an asterisk ( Required Field

) is mandatory and must be completed on the application.

Applicant Information

You are the applicant since you are filling out (typing) this online application

Subject field Information

The subject is the person named on the certificate

Parent's Data

Last Proper name or Single Proper name of Parent (at parent's birth)
Starting time Proper name
Center Name(s)
Whatever Previous Concluding Proper noun(s) or Unmarried Name(s)
Address at Time of Kid'southward Nascency
Age at Time of Child's Birth
Marital Status at Time of Child's Nascence
Appointment of Birth
Place of Nascence

Guarantor data is merely required for subjects that are age 9 or older. A guarantor is someone who tin verify your identity and confirm information in your application about yous or near your child, if you are applying for your child'south birth certificate.

Payment Information

Online Applications

Payment Type - Credit Menu, INTERAC Online
Card Information including Card Number, Death Date if Payment Type is Credit Card

Printed Applications

Payment Blazon - Check, Money Order, Credit Card, Greenbacks or Debit
Menu Data (if Payment Type is Credit Card)

Additional Information
Has the person named on the Nascence Registration ever had a legal name change? If yes, you must provide their previous legal names. A legal name change involves legally changing a person'southward outset name(southward) and/or terminal name or single name. When your name is legally inverse in Ontario, you lot are issued a birth certificate indicating the new legal name(south).

What type of nascency certificate is required to obtain a Canadian passport, social insurance number (SIN), Ontario Health Card (OHIP number), or Ontario driver'due south licence?

Please visit the post-obit websites to determine what type of document you require:

Canadian Passport:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/passport/

Social Insurance Number:
http://www.servicecanada.gc.ca/eng/sin/apply/proof.shtml

Ontario Driver's Licence:
http://world wide web.drivetest.ca/licences/id-documents.html

Ontario Health Carte:
http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/public/publications/ohip/card.aspx

A Birth Certificate is an extract of information from the original nativity registration and contains the post-obit information:

Bailiwick name
Subject date of nativity
Document Number
Birthplace
Sex
Date of Registration
Registration number
Date issued

A Nativity Certificate contains personal information of the field of study only , and is recommended for those over the age of sixteen and tin be used to obtain other government documentation, such as:

Adult general passport
Social Insurance Number
Ontario driver's licence
Ontario Health Card

A Birth Certificate with Parental Information is an extract of information from the original birth registration and contains the following information:

Subject proper name
Subject date of nascency
Certificate Number
Birthplace
Sex
Date of Registration
Registration number
Appointment issued
Parent(s) proper name(s)
Parent(s) place(s) of birth

*Note: For older (pre-1970) registrations, parent(south)' place(due south) of birth may non accept been recorded and therefore will not appear on the certificate.

This certificate includes parental information, in addition to the subject'southward information and is recommended for newborns or children nether 16 years of age where parental data is required and can be used for the same identification purposes as a nativity certificate with merely field of study information.

Kid full general passport
Kid wellness insurance
Sure immigration or citizenship applications

A Certified Re-create of the Birth Registration contains the following information:

Discipline name
Subject date of nascence
Birthplace (city, town, village, municipality)
Sex activity
Location of birth (hospital, birthing centre, etc.,)
Parent(s) proper name(s)
Parent(s) date(s) of nascency
Parent mailing address at the fourth dimension of birth
Duration of the pregnancy
Number of children born to this mother
Parent(south) identify(s) of nascence
Weight of the child at nascence
Type of nascence (single, multiple, etc.,)
Attendant at the nativity
Date of Registration
Registration number
Date issued

A certified re-create of the detailed registration filed after nascency, also known as the Statement of Live Birth, contains all registered information near a birth. The re-create is endorsed as authentic, printed on legal sized paper, and contains a raised seal for security and verification purposes.

As a historical record of the birth, a certified copy contains any changes that have been fabricated to the birth registration including whatsoever proper name changes and corrections to data contained on the birth registration. The certified copy of a nascency registration tin can be used for identification purposes requiring more than detailed information such as for:

Applying for Indian Status
Adopting a child abroad
Certain immigration or citizenship applications
Visa applications

Safeguarding your personal and sensitive information is important. Given the amount of information contained in a Certified Copy of a Nativity Registration information technology is not recommended to share this document unless expressly required.

I am an adoptee or adoptive parent. What information do I demand to provide?
When completing the application, provide the adoptive parents names and the current legal name of the adoptee.

Births Prior to 1930

Historical events, such equally births prior to 1930, may not be in electronic format. When applying for a nascency certificate for a birth prior to 1930, it can take upwards to an actress 6-8 weeks for the registration to be converted into electronic format before processing tin be completed. Records that are not available electronically are not included in the Service Guarantee.

How practise I obtain a birth certificate that does not display the sex designation field?

Anyone with an Ontario birth registration has the option to request a birth certificate or birth certificate with parental information that does not brandish the sex designation field. This choice does not change the nascency registration - it simply means the sex designation field volition not appear on the birth certificate.

Annotation: A nascence certificate with no sex displayed is valid and recognized by the Regime of Ontario. Ontario does not endorse the rejection of Ontario birth certificates; however, the Authorities of Ontario cannot guarantee that an Ontario nativity certificate with no sexual activity displayed will exist accepted by organizations in Ontario or by other jurisdictions.

How do I obtain a birth certificate with an X, a non-binary sex activity designation, in the sex activity designation field?

To apply for a document with an Ten, a change of sex activity designation to an X, a non-binary sex designation, is required. Anyone with an Ontario nascency registration may use to change their sex activity designation on their nativity registration and then information technology matches with their gender identity. You lot can and so asking a nascence document or a nascence certificate with parental information that displays the updated sexual practice designation or a certified copy of a nascency registration by mail or fax. Please select the following link to learn more about changing the sex designation on a birth registration and obtaining a nascency certificate.

Note: A birth document with a sex activity designation of X is valid and recognized by the Government of Ontario. Ontario does not endorse the rejection of Ontario nascency certificates; notwithstanding, the Authorities of Ontario cannot guarantee that an Ontario nativity certificate with a sex activity designation of Ten will exist accepted by organizations in Ontario or by other jurisdictions.

Marriage Information

What information do I need to provide on the Online Marriage Document Awarding?
You must provide:

First and last names or single names of both parties to the marriage (Brides and grooms are referred to as parties to the matrimony).
Appointment of the marriage
Metropolis or town of marriage.

Who is entitled to apply for a marriage document?
At that place are restrictions on who may apply for a marriage certificate. The parties to the marriage, children of the wedlock, parents of the parties to the matrimony and legally authorized representatives acting on behalf of these individuals are entitled to apply. Authorized representatives are required to provide proof of authorization.

Who is entitled to apply for a certified copy of marriage registration?
The parties to the marriage, and a legally authorized representative acting on behalf of either political party to the marriage are entitled to use. Authorized representatives are required to provide proof of authorization.

Who is entitled to employ for a certified copy of marriage registration if one or both of the parties to the wedlock is deceased?

The surviving party and Next of Kin - the parents of either political party, children of the marriage and siblings of either party. If all the Next of Kin are deceased, extended Next of Kin may apply. Extended Side by side of Kin relationships include aunt, uncle, commencement cousin, grandchild, grandparent, nephew or niece.

Side by side of Kin Certification

The Office of the Registrar General requires you to certify online that you are the Side by side of Kin or, that, the Side by side of Kin is deceased and you are the Extended Next of Kin.

Authorized Representatives

The legally authorized representative of an entitled individual, including the deceased, may apply for a certificate or certified copy of the spousal relationship registration.

Historical events, such equally marriages prior to 1965, may not be in electronic format. When applying for a wedlock certificate prior to 1965, it can take up to an extra 6-viii weeks for the registration to be converted into an electronic format before processing can exist completed. Records that are not available electronically are not included in the Service Guarantee.

Expiry Information

What data do I demand to provide on the Online Death Certificate Application?
You must provide:

Offset and final name or single name of the deceased subject
Sex
Engagement of expiry
City or town of death
Parental information nearly the deceased bailiwick
If applicable, information about his or her spouse or partner.

Who is entitled to apply for a expiry certificate?
At that place are no restrictions on who may use for a death certificate.

Who is entitled to apply for a certified copy of a statement of death?
The deceased'southward Next of Kin or their authorized representative may apply for a certified copy of a statement of death. Next of kin of the deceased includes his/her parents, spouse or mutual-police force partner, children and siblings. If all the Next of Kin are deceased, Extended Next of Kin or their authorized representative may use. Extended Next of Kin relationships include aunt, uncle, first cousin, grandchild, grandparent, nephew and niece.

Next of Kin Certification

The Office of the Registrar General requires yous to certify online that yous are the Adjacent of Kin or, that, the Next of Kin is deceased and you are the Extended Next of Kin.

Historical events, such as deaths prior to 1980, may non be in electronic format. When applying for a death certificate prior to 1980, it can take upwards to an actress 6-viii weeks for the registration to exist converted into an electronic format before processing can be completed. Records that are not available electronically are not included in the Service Guarantee.