The service provides for the statutory registration of births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships in the registration district of Dudley Metropolitan Borough
The Register Office is located at: Priory Hall, Priory Park, Dudley DY1 4EU
A registrar is also available, by appointment only, to register births and deaths at Stourbridge Registration Office.
Stourbridge Registration Office is located at: Thomas Robinson Building, Cemetery Road, Stourbridge DY9 8AN
A birth must be registered in the registration district where the baby was born. If your baby was born in Russells Hall Hospital or elsewhere within the Dudley Borough, this can be at Dudley Register Office or Stourbridge Registration Office. Please book an appointment online.
To re-register your child's birth following the marriage of the natural parents or to add the natural father's details to the birth please visit Adding a Father's name to a Birth Certificate where you can download an application form.
Completed application forms should be posted to Dudley Register Office, Priory Hall, Priory Park, Dudley DY1 4EU along with required certificates. Please include a contact number and email address so that we can contact you to arrange an appointment once we have processed your application.
A death must be registered in the registration district in which it took place and should be done within 5 days of the death.
If the death occurred within the Dudley Borough, this can be at Dudley Register Office or Stourbridge Registration Office. Please book an appointment online or call 0300 555 2345.
You can choose to use our tell us once service when registering the death.
Couples wishing to marry or register a civil partnership in the Dudley Borough can choose to hold a ceremony at Priory Hall or the Thomas Robinson Building. Priory Hall is located within Priory Park and the venue offers fantastic photograph opportunities. The Wollescote Suite offers a traditional setting and is located within the Thomas Robinson Building (formerly Lye and Wollescote Chapels).
In order to give a notice, both of you must have lived in a registration district in England or Wales for at least seven clear days immediately before giving notice. Each of you will give your own notice, but you can attend together if you live in the same registration district although you will still give your notices individually. If you live in different registration districts, you will need to give notice separately in your own area.
To avoid any inconvenience for couples, most register offices work by appointment. Therefore, you are strongly advised to contact the register office for the district where you live before going there. Staff are then able to check your details carefully and advise you properly about which documents you will need to produce when giving your notice of intention.
To arrange an appointment to give notice in the Dudley borough (Dudley borough residents only) please book an appointment online.
Important - The appointment fee will be taken when the appointment is booked by credit or debit card. For your convenience, we offer some out of hours appointments on Saturdays. There is an additional charge of £20 for an out of hours appointment.
If you require birth, marriage, civil partnership or death certificates you will need to apply and pay online.
The current statutory fee for a certificate is £12.50 each.
If you are attending an appointment to register a birth or death, certificates can be issued at your appointment. You should pay for these when booking your appointment. All payments are by card, we cannot accept cash.
Search for Birth, Marriage or Death records held in the Dudley Metropolitan Borough from 1837 up to 2006 inclusive.
A deed poll service is available at Dudley Register Office for anyone wishing to change their name.
A person can apply to the Home Office to become a British Citizen. The naturalisation process requires successful applicants to attend a citizenship ceremony.
When registering a birth, marriage, civil partnership or death you will be asked to check that the information has all been recorded correctly by the registrar before you sign the register confirming it to be accurate. Once signed a legal record is created that cannot be changed other than by the legal correction process. If afterwards you notice that there is an error in the information recorded, it may be possible to get it corrected, however you will need to pay the statutory correction fee and supply suitable evidence to request a correction.
If you are a European Union (EU) citizen, you and your family will be able to apply to get either settled or pre-settled status.
We are not currently offering an EUSS service in Dudley.
More information about Dudley MBC EU Settlement Scheme can be found on the dedicated EUSS web page.
Please visit our webpage for information and forms required to apply for a building to be registered for worship and marriages
You can get certain official UK documents 'legalised' by submitting them to the Legalisation Office.
You might need to do this if an official in another country has asked you to provide a UK document and they have said it must be legalised.
The Legalisation Office will check the document and see if any signatures, stamps or seals match their own records. If they do match, they will legalise the document by attaching an 'apostille' (stamped official certificate).
You cannot get documents issued outside the UK legalised using this service - get them legalised in the country they were issued.
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