Minnesota Birth Record Verification Request
Official state formRecord search and verificationFree downloadLast verified November 12, 2026
Request for a printed verification that a Minnesota birth record exists, showing name, sex, date and place of birth. It is not a birth certificate. Mail it to the Minnesota Department of Health, Office of Vital Records.
Who can use this form
- Public records (parents married): the requester signs the form.
- Confidential records, or if you are unsure: the subject age 16 or older, a parent named on the record, the guardian, or a person with a certified U.S. court order.
- These requesters sign in front of a notary public.
What to send with it
- The completed form, signed in front of a notary if the record is confidential or you do not know.
- Legal documentation of guardianship or the certified court order, if that is your basis.
- Payment, not cash.
Where to send it
- Mail to
- Minnesota Department of Health Office of Vital Records Mail: PO Box 64499, St. Paul, MN 55164-0499 Courier/express delivery: 625 Robert St. N, St. Paul, MN 55155 (no vital-records counter service at this location) Fax: 866-416-1357 (credit card payments only)
- State fee
- $9 for the verification. Faster processing is $20 and express delivery is $21. As printed on the form.
- Typical processing
- Not provided
- Form revision
- 01/2024
- Source
- Official government page