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-=== New Zealand Adoptions  ===
+== New Zealand Adoptions ==
-==== Receiving Your Original Birth Certificate  ====
+=== Receiving Your Original Birth Certificate ===
+You must be 20 years of age to receive your original birth certificate if you were adopted in New Zealand.
-If you were adopted in New Zealand, and live in New Zealand, and are 20 years of age, and want to get your&nbsp; original Birth Certificate, please contact your local Child Youth and Family office, and ask for the Adoption Support Dept.&nbsp; They will give you the relevant form, cost, Counsellor List, and information required by the Birth Death and Marriage Dept. for you to receive your original birth certificate.
+==== Adopted before 1 March 1986 ====
+For adoptions in this time period, the birth parents have the right to veto transmission of information about them to the birth child. These vetoes last 10 years and must be renewed. Additionally, adopted people from this time period who are living in New Zealand must receive their original birth certificate through an Adoption Counsellor.
-&nbsp;Further information on this process is available from the Registrar-General's website&nbsp;
+==== Adopted on or after 1 March 1986 ====
+Birth parents have no right to veto for adoptions in this time period. Adopted people can directly receive their original birth certificate without seeing an Adoption Counsellor.
-If you were adopted in New Zealand, and live overseas and want your original birth certificate.&nbsp; please send $15 (price as at Nov. 2008) along with the relevant information requested below.&nbsp; As prices may change, you can check the price on this website.
-https://www.bdmonline.dia.govt.nz/<br>
+In either case, you can apply for an original birth certificate using the form at the top [https://www.govt.nz/browse/family-and-whanau/adoption-and-fostering/finding-your-birth-parents/ of this page] of the New Zealand government website.
-Send your request to:
+More information about anything to do with Adoption is available on&nbsp;[http://www.cyf.govt.nz/1570.btm ]
-Registrar General<br>Birth Death and Marriages<br>P. O. Box 10526,<br>Wellington.
+=== Receiving Other Documentation relating to an Adoption ===
+Other documents and records (in addition to the original birth certificate) relating to your adoption kept by Oranga Tamariki/Ministry for Children can be retrieved by an adoption social worker. You must give them a copy of your original birth certificate.
-Marked:&nbsp;'''&nbsp;Attention Adult Adoption Information Officer.'''
-Put todays date, your name, current address and phone number and email address.&nbsp; Then underneath that put your
-Full Adopted Name<br>Date of Birth<br>Place of Birth<br>Full Name of Adoptive Father<br>Full Name of Adoptive Mother
-Your signature
-Send this away with the relevant sum of money, to the above address.&nbsp; As one is living overseas, your Certificate will be sent directly to you.
-More information about anything to do with Adoption is available on&nbsp;[http://www.cyf.govt.nz/1570.btm ]
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 [[Category:New_Zealand]] [[Category:Adoption]]