Lost or damaged your birth, marriage, civil partnership, or death certificate? We obtain certified replacements directly from the General Register Office on your behalf — no GRO account required. Priority 72hr processing, £70 per document. Apostille and legalisation available in the same order.
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A GRO certificate is an official certified copy of a civil registration record held by the General Register Office — the government body responsible for recording births, marriages, civil partnerships, and deaths in England and Wales. GRO certificates are the only version of these documents that carries the registrar's original signature and is accepted by the FCDO for apostille. If you need a GRO certificate apostille UK — whether for marriage abroad, a citizenship application, or international visa — the process starts here: obtaining the correct GRO-issued document before it can be legalised.
Many people discover they need a GRO certificate only when a foreign authority or solicitor rejects the document they already have. Hospital-issued birth notifications, laminated certificates, photocopies, and solicitor-certified copies all fail the FCDO apostille test — because the FCDO must apostille an original registrar signature on an official GRO-issued document. A replacement GRO certificate resolves this immediately.
The most common reasons clients come to us for GRO certificates include: applying for citizenship by descent (Italian, Irish, German, and other EU nationalities frequently require a chain of apostilled GRO birth and marriage certificates), marriage abroad (Spanish, Italian, and many other authorities require a long-form birth certificate with FCDO apostille), overseas adoption dossiers, spouse and family visas, probate and inheritance matters in foreign courts, and employment documentation for work in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other non-English-speaking countries.
Once we obtain your GRO certificate, it goes directly to the FCDO for apostille as part of the same order — no need to coordinate two separate services. Our City of London location means same-day FCDO submission is available. For non-Hague Convention countries (such as China, UAE, and Egypt), we also handle the full embassy legalisation chain after the apostille. If a certified translation is required — for Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Mandarin, or any of the 40+ languages we cover — that is arranged in parallel, so you receive one complete, country-ready document package.
All our GRO certificate applications are submitted on a priority basis — approximately 72 hours from submission. No GRO account is required from you at any stage. Simply send us your certificate details or a scan of your existing document and we handle everything.
We submit applications to the General Register Office on your behalf as a registered business customer — no queuing, no online GRO account needed, and priority processing available.
All prices include GRO government fees, our service fee, and VAT. No hidden charges.
⏱ Approx. 72 hours
⏱ Quoted on enquiry
⏱ Quoted on enquiry
Delivery charges are additional. Royal Mail Special Delivery (UK) £10. DHL UK £15. International from £20. Order now or ask us for a combined quote.
We handle the GRO application entirely on your behalf — no queuing, no online accounts, no form-filling.
GRO standard processing can take up to 1 month. We strongly recommend priority processing for anything time-sensitive.
| Service | Processing Time | Price (all-inclusive) | Submission Cut-Off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority GRO Certificate | 72 hours from submission | £70 per document | Before 2pm — same day submission |
| GRO Priority + Apostille | ~5–7 working days total | From £145 per document | Combined service — enquire |
| GRO Priority + Apostille + Translation | ~6–8 working days total | POA | Combined service — enquire |
All prices are all-inclusive — no GRO account required from you. Applications received before 2pm on a working day are submitted to the GRO the same day.
No queuing. No GRO account. No confusion about which form to fill in. Just send us the details and we handle everything.
From individuals who've lost their original certificates to law firms and adoption agencies managing multiple applications.
Free no-obligation quote. Priority 72hr processing. All government fees included. Apostille available in the same order.