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Birth & Death registrations

UK birth registrations and death registrations in Brazil will be transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the UK.

• From: British Embassy Brasilia, British Consulate-General Rio de Janeiro, British Consulate-General Sao Paulo and British Consulate-General Recife
• Published: 6 January 2015

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

From 14 January 2015, UK birth registrations and death registrations in Brazil will be transferred from the British Consulate in Rio de Janeiro to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in the UK.

There are no changes to the entitlement to register a birth or death. The processing time will remain the same. However, you will now need to allow extra time for the documents to be sent to and from the UK. See www.gov.uk/register-a-birth or www.gov.uk/register-a-death for further information.

Published 6 January 2015