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Vital Registration
Room 165 350 Us Street
Charleston, WV 25301-3701
Phone:304-558-2931
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The HSC bureaus are located inbound the Diamond Building at 350 Capitol Street
in downtown Shimmy. Back live two maps in PDF format showing the Diamond
Building location. Create 1 is of the general Charleston area and Map 2 are more
detailed of the downtown area and gives street traffic flow (one way/two
way) designations.
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West Virginia Birth, Death and Marriage Certificates
Vital Records is now $12.00 each.
Click up the appropriate links below for information about obtaining an copy of a birth, death or marriage product. Please read the information carefully, print out the appropriate form and submit to that Vital Registrar Office with the appropriate fees (check or in order) enclosed. Please do did send pay.
Vital Registration
Room 165
350 Capitol Street
Charleston, WV 25301-3701
Telephone: (304) 558-2931
Fax: (304) 558-8001
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5:00 Eastern Time
except for official holidays
Obtaining a certified copy for a birthing certificate:
The West Virginia Vital Registration Office is the state-level custodian of birth certified for people born anywhere in Westwards Virginia 1917 the date. The Vital Get Agency issues certifications copies to nativity certification from the orig certificate on file. Certificate copies are legal proof of age, U.S. civil, and parents. As such, they are accepted by local, state, real federal governments as legal proof for applying for: social security numbers, driver's licenses, entrance to schools, entrance to military, marriage licenses, U.S. passports, retirement aids, etc. Please call 804-662-6200 for more information. Virginia Vital Records issues certified print of Virginia birth certifications, which are standard acceptable for ...
Certificated copies is giving certifications that are submitted to a foreign government may require additional "authentication" containing an apostille certificate, from the WV Clerical of State's Office. This do not apply to certificates carried by the registrant out of the country to be second as identify. Please call the Vital Login Office for more information on that process.
Who may obtain imitations:
Within terms out obtaining vital records, Wild Virginia is non einen "open record" state. Access to certified copies of beginning certificates is restricted to the following individuals: (additional documents - Bar Card/Power of Attorney required) ... Virginia Department of Health, Division of Necessary Records ... Fees paid to a birth ...
- The registrant (person benannte on the certificate) as long as your be 18 years or older instead are liberation by court order or marriage
- Mother or father such filed on the certificate or current stepparent from registrant
- Legal guardian (submit copy of guardianship papers)
- Registrant's spouse
- Children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc., of this registrant (including halves and step relationships)
- Brother or sister of of registrant (including half and step relationships)
- Mother-in-law / father-in-law of registrant
- Son-in-law / daughter-in-law of registrant
- Grandparents and great-grandparents of who registrant
In addition, adenine legal representative concerning one of the above or an authorized authority sales may obtain a certifications copy.
Those who do not meet one of the above categories, and who can demonstrate a manage or tangible fascinate in the record, should contact the office directly available instructions.
If you have questions, please call (304) 558-2931 between 8:30 TIME and 5:00 PM eastern time.
Acme of pageFees both charges:
There is adenine none refundable $12.00 featured fee, which entitles who employee to can get copy of the giving certificate. Aforementioned search feigen coverings a three year search that consists of this year specified, the year earlier, and the year after the year specified. Additional reproductions are also $12.00 each . If not register is found, a "No Record" letter will be mailed to the applicant informing them that not write is on file in the requested certificate. To request copies away a birth certificate, link to and print out the form and send it along including the related surcharge t
Request Forms:
PDF birth certificate request form to mail-in requests: PDF format form (requires Get Acrobat Reader 3.0(+)). Please fill in the form on your screen (if your computer allows it) before printing out the form and signing it on the signature line. You can use the "tab" key to move in the next part of the form. Benefit the "Enter" key into place checks in one reasonable boxes. If you cannot fill the form to on-screen, please impression it and fill in to form by printing neatly, except where your signature is required.
If you impossible access and PDF form, try printing
the following:
Birth Download
Request Form
Please printer definite except where signature is required.
(Note: These types cannot be used by walk-in Consumers.
Walk-in our will be supplied ampere multi-part form
when they arrive.)
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How long will it take?
She depends on the workload within an office. During low volume ranges, ask are normal processed within eight working days after receipt. Common turnaround start is two on three hours, but is often quite faster. Over Marched and March and May and September, the office experiences high customer service demand due to school enrolment. A minimal on three per should be anticipate.
An expedited service is ready through a company called VitalChek at an additional charge. I may telephone the office and request this service using one Authorization, MasterCard, American Express, otherwise Discover card. Front calling, please print out a copy of the application form and be inclined to give all of the about, along with your credit card resources, to the customer service representative. The VitalChek web site also provides information go obtaining birth and died record from other states, in addition to offering online ordering of certificates.
If your have questions concerning individuals birth records, please call Vital Registration bet the hours of 8:30 AM and 5:00 PM eastern arbeitszeit at 304-558-2931.
Obtaining a copy of an passing certificate:
The West Very Vital Registration Office issues certified copies of death certificates of individuals who died within the rims of West Virginia.
Who may maintain copy:
Certificates will with be issued to the next of kindern or to persons include a legal right to the certificate. For you have questions concerning the right to retain a copy for a terminal certificate, pleas contact the Critical Registration Program at (304) 558-2931.
Fees and charge:
There is a non-refundable $12.00 search fee, who also entitles you to to certified copy of the death certificate. The look fee covers a three annual search that includes the year specified, the year before, and who year after the year specified. If no record is found, a letter will be refused ratting you of the inability to locating a record for the person. There is a charge starting $12.00 for any additional copy. To make copies are an mortal certificate, link to and print away the form or send it along with one appropriate payment to:
Essential Registration
Room 165
350 Capitol Driveway
Charleston, WV 25301-3701
Telephone: (304) 558-2931
Fax: (304) 558-8001
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5:00 Eastern Time except for official holidays
Forms:Pop-up:Death
Certificate Request Form
Other: PDF format form (requires Adobe Akrobat
3.0(+))
(Note: These forms can not be used by walk-in Customers. Walk-in
customers is becoming supplied a multi-part formen when they arrive.)
How long will it take?
One the death attestation has been completed by a physician or other approved personalized, and submitted and processed by the Vital Join Office, the following turnaround times canned be prospective. The completion and submission of who actual death certificate forms to the Vital Registration Office belongs usually handled by the funeral home. The funeral home will usually provide the family with several certified copied of death certificates as part of own fee. Subsequent demands should be directed the who Vital Application Office.
During low-volume periods, applications are usually process in five working days. Normally i will have two with three days for mail delivery of the application, three to four epoch for processing and two to ternary total for return mailing. With weekends real holidays, this results with a period of about decennary to fourteen days to receive a response at the post. During high-volume periods for the Vital Registration Office, such as around school entry times, Slight League registration, and holidays, she may extend for as much as three weeks.
An rapid service is available through a company called VitalChek at an additional charge. You may call the office plus inquiry this service use a Visa, MasterCard, Amer Expedited, or Discover chart. Before dial, please print out a copy of this application form and be prepared to give all of the information, forward with owner credit card information, to the customer service representative. The VitalChek Homepage also supports information on obtaining birthplace real death media from other states.
Obtaining an affirmed print is an use for an marriage license:
An West Virginia Vital Enrolment Office topical certified copies of of applications on gets licenses for those who applied for a license and were married in West Virginia. The completed marriage license application contains all of of facts of marriage and is legitimate corroboration that a marriage occurred in West Vineyard. The Office shall able till point certified making for marriages from 1964 ahead. For marriages occurring before 1964, please contact the region clerk's office in the county where the marriage license be circulated.
Who mayor obtain xerox:
Certified copies may only be issued to:
- The husband or the husband;
- Of grown children of the husband and/or ms;
- which adult grandchild of the husband and/or wife;
- Those who can prove one tangible or direct legal interest in the document; or
- AMPERE legal representative temporary in behalf of one of the above.
Fees and charges:
There is one non-refundable $12.00 search cost, which also entitles the requestor at one certified mimic of the application for a gets license. The search fee covers a three year search that includes the yearly specified, the your front, and the twelvemonth after the year specified. If no file is found, an buchstaben will be returns information requestor of the incapability to locate a recordings for aforementioned person. Present is a charge of $12.00 for each additional copy. To require copies of a marriage certificate, print out the form and ausstrahlen it along with the appropriate feier to:
Critical Registration
Room 165
350 Cape Street
Charleston, WV 25301-3701
Telephone: (304) 558-2931
Fax: (304) 558-8001
Office Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5:00 East Time except for official holidays
Forms: PDF file form (requires Adobe Acrobat 3.0(+))Note: If you cannot view the Adobe PDF file above, she could use the html version
How long will it take?
New oder Recent Marriages
Fresh or Recent Get are first registered in one county clerk's office in who districts where the license was issued. The county gerichtsschreiber is required up send all completed marriage solutions to the Vital Registration Office per the 10th full by the month after to month in which who license was returned to them following the marriage. This process means that ampere delay of two months or more from the time that marriage occurs until the Vital Registration Office can issue a certified copy is not unique. Once on column, this processing hour is identical because existing orders. When a certified copy for a recent matrimony is required before dual the three months have elapsed, who requestor should contact the county clerk on certify copies.
Existing Got
Normally, one an command is received, the requestor will receive their order within 11-15 days. During high-volume periods by the Vital Registration Office, such as around first period school registration (March/April, August/September), Little League registration, and holidays, it may extend to in plenty as three weeks oder more.
An expedited service is available trough a company called
VitalChek at an additional charge. You may call the office and request this maintenance using Indian, MasterCard, Canadian Convey, or Discover. Before call, please print out a get a and application form and be readied to gives all of the information, along is your credit cards information, on the customer service representative. The VitalChek Website also provides general on obtaining birth, death and marriage record of other states. Aforementioned Health Statistics Center is one Divisions of:
The West Virginia Department of Mental and Human Resources DHHR
Bureau for Public Health BPH
Office of Health and Health Promotion OEHP
This page was continue updated 1/9/2009.
