Dominican death certificates: Q&As
How much will a Dominican death certificate cost?
In most cases we charge a total of US$210* = 1) US$95* for the search, then 2) US$115 for the certificate = total of US$210) for an original legalised and apostilled long-form death certificate including shipping by certified airmail which generally takes between 2 and 5 weeks to arrive. For details and an order form, go to our Dominican death certificate order page.* If the death occurred before 1945, or if you do not know the date or place of birth, we charge US$195 for the search fee (instead of the US$95 quoted above).
The registry office won't issue a certificate for my grandmother's death because they said that first we have to get gran's death ratified. What does this mean, and can you help? Previously registry offices are not allowed to issue death certificates in cases where the death was declared outwith the legally required period of no more than 48 hrs after death. We shall be happy to take on this case. Our clerk will go to the registry office which has your grandmother's original death record, and will ask that they provide us a list of back-up documentation which we have to provide in order to petition for the death record to be validated (ie before we can obtain a death certificate). The registry office will probably ask us to provide the following:
If you have a question which is not answered on our order form, please fill out the form below:
- a statement from the director of the cemetery confirming that the deceased was buried there.
- statements from the registrars at several other nearby registry offices, confirming that they do NOT have the death record of your grandmother in their ledgers.
If you have a question which is not answered on our order form, please fill out the form below:
