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Application to re-register a child’s birth and add the natural father's details

Form GRO 185 to apply to re-register a child's birth and add the natural father's details.

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Application to re-register a child’s birth and add the natural father's details

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Use form GRO 185 to re-register a child’s birth if the natural parents were not married to, or in a civil partnership with, each other when the child was born, and have not married or formed a civil partnership with each other since.

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Updates to this page

Published 1 April 2013
Last updated 2 December 2019 + show all updates
  1. Form updated to account for opposite sex civil partnerships.

  2. First published.

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