The Registry records details of legal adoptions finalised in NSW.

Adoption applications require complex and extensive searches therefore no exact time limit for processing these applications can be given.

For enquiries regarding adoptions please contact:

• Adoption Information Unit
  Family and Community Services (FACS)
  Locked Bag 4028
  Ashfield NSW 2131
  
  Ph: 1300 799 023 (local call within Australia)
  Fax: 02 9716 3400
  Email: adoption.information@facs.nsw.gov.au
  

Supply Authority

You will need to apply for a supply authority for the following:

• Adoptee - to obtain your pre adoptive or adoptive persons birth record.

• Birth parent - to obtain adoption information of your child, including an adopted person's birth record

After a Supply Authority has been issued to you by FACS, you may then apply to the Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages for information on the adoption. Your application must include three (3) forms of your identification along with the certificate fee.

Certificate Fees

All certificates are distributed through Registered post and include postage and handling.

• $48.00 - Pre adoptive certificate
  includes the information provided at the time of birth by birth parent/s. This cannot be used for identification purposes and will be stamped with ‘Not for Official Use'.
  
  
• $48.00 - Adopted person's birth record
  includes pre and post adoption birth information on one document. This cannot be used for identification purposes.
  
  
• $58.00 - marriage search
  includes a result of search with parties names, date and place of marriage only.
  
  
• $48.00 - death search
  includes name, date and place of death, cause of death and burial or cremation details of deceased only.
  
  
• $48.00 - extract of a birth parent's birth record (if born in NSW) includes subject's name, date and place of birth and subject's parents given names only.

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