Delaware Adoptee's Application for a Copy of the Original Birth Certificate
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Application for an adult adoptee to request a copy of the original, pre-adoption birth certificate. It goes to the Office of Vital Statistics, which lists offices in Dover, Newark and Georgetown on the form.
Who can use this form
- The adoptee named on the form
- Photo ID must verify that the applicant is the adoptee
What to send with it
- Completed application, with the number of copies requested
- Photo ID presented to vital statistics when filing
- $25.00 per copy, by check or money order payable to the State of Delaware (kept for the search if no record is found)
- Offices listed on the form: Jesse S. Cooper Building, 417 Federal Street, Dover; Chopin Building, 258 Chapman Rd., Newark; Thurman Adams State Service Center, 546 S. Bedford St., Georgetown
Where to send it
- Mail to
- See the form for where to file it.
- State fee
- $25.00 per copy; kept for the search if the record is not found
- Typical processing
- Can take up to three months (stated on the form)
- Form revision
- Rev. June 2021
- Source
- Official government page