How Do You Register A Domestic Partnership

Domestic Partnership

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02/04/2022: The DC Health Vital Records Partition (DCVRD) volition be available for the following types of services as of Monday, February7, 2022:

WALK-UP SERVICES: Available Monday and Tuesday 9am - 1pm | Wed 9am - 330pm | Th and Friday 9am - 1pm

Masks are required . Customers must wear a mask that covers your nose and mouth earlier entering the building.

Walk-up services are available for customers to request nascence, decease and domestic partnership certificates. Service expect times can be found here: https://www.dcvsims.com/public/waittimes.

We highly recommend making an appointment, as appointment holders volition be served inside fifteen (15) minutes of their scheduled date time. See below for more information.

APPOINTMENT SERVICES:

Nativity, Death and Domestic Partnership Certificates – make an date at https://dchealth.dc.gov/page/vital-records-appointments or call (202) 442-9303 option 1 and then option 9.
Domestic Partnership Registration and Termination – make an appointment at https://dchealth.dc.gov/folio/vital-records-appointments or call (202) 442-9303 pick i and so option 9.
Out of Institution Birth Registration – send an email to[email protected] to schedule an engagement. Every bit was required prior to the pandemic, appointments are required for out of institution birth registration services.
Delayed Birth Registration - send an email to[email protected] to schedule an appointment. Equally was required prior to the pandemic, appointments are required for delayed registration of birth services.
Voluntary Acknowledgement of Parentage (AOP) Services – make an appointment at https://dchealth.dc.gov/page/vital-records-appointments or call (202) 442-9303 choice 1 and and then option 9. Appointments are required for AOP services.

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REMOTE SERVICES:

Online Certificate Orders - https://dchealth.dc.gov/vital-records (click the "Remote ordering service provider" section for all online ordering options)
Phone Certificate Orders - i-877-572-6332 Option 2
Mail-in Nativity Certificate Application - https://world wide web.vitalchek.com/Fax-Telephone/DC_Birth_Application.pdf
Post-in Expiry Document Application - https://world wide web.vitalchek.com/Fax-Phone/DC_Death_Application.pdf
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Amendment SERVICES:

Walk-upward amendment services are available for submitting amendment applications and payment processing. Amendment applications volition exist examined and decisions determined inside 3-5 business concern days. Subpoena customers will receive notification to make payment for approved applications. If an subpoena application is denied, customers volition receive a denial alphabetic character detailing requirements for approval, which may include petitioning the appropriate courtroom. Masks are required . Customers must wear a mask that covers your nose and oral cavity before entering the edifice.
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FUNERAL Dwelling SERVICES:

Funeral Home Portal Orders - https://funeralhome.vitalchek.com
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Domestic Partnership

domestic partnership

Since June 11, 1992, unmarried persons of the same or different genders, regardless of one's place of residence, have been legally able to register every bit domestic partners in the Commune of Columbia.

This police force guarantees the partners mutual visitation rights in hospitals and nursing homes. If one of the partners works for or was employed by the DC government afterwards 1987, it also enables eligibility for health care insurance coverage, plus the power to use annual or unpaid leave for funerals, births/adoptions, and caring for partners and dependents as family members.

ONLY the domestic partners themselves are entitled to copies of the domestic partnership certificate.

To order the certificate

You can social club copies if you are legally entitled and have the required personal documentation (meet below) and $eighteen per copy (a fee which tin can be paid by cash, personal or business cheque or major credit card.). If the name on your identification does NOT match the proper noun on the certificate, you must prove evidence of a legal name change, like an original sealed legal proper name change order. See below:

For a printable version of the below requirements, please review our Identity Guidelines Information Sheet.

During your visit, yous volition exist required to consummate an identity verification questionnaire at our self- service kiosks. (Read more under "How exercise the on-site kiosks work?")

If the proper noun on your identification does Non match the name on the document, you must prove evidence of a legal name change. This may include a certified matrimony document, certified divorce decree or a certified legal proper name change court order that reflects the history of the changes to the name(southward) on the certificate(s) requested.

If the kiosk is able to authenticate your identity, you lot volition be required to present at least ONE of the following forms of primary photo ID (which must be original, valid, unexpired, and undamaged.):

State-issued driver's license or non-driver'southward ID carte du jour
Passport or passport bill of fare
Permanent resident bill of fare
Employment authorization bill of fare
Department of State menu
Military ID Card
Law enforcement ID (must also present DC Superior Court subpoena)
Government employee ID (applies only to licensed social workers or authorities representatives with pre-existing approval from the State Registrar)

If the kiosk is able to authenticate your identity only yous practice non have a primary photograph ID, y'all volition exist required to nowadays TWO FORMS of alternate identification from the list beneath (which must prove your total name, current address and/or signature where appropriate):

Valid unexpired employment ID card (with photo) WITH a pay stub (dated within last threescore days)
Expired (within final 3 years) state-issued driver's license, non-driver'southward ID menu or passport
Photograph ID from a school in a U.S. country or territory (inside last 3 years) WITH a report carte du jour, transcript or other proof of schoolhouse enrollment (within last iii years)
Department of Corrections or Federal Bureau of Prisons photo ID or probation/discharge papers with photo
Signed Social Security carte or Social Security Disbursement Statement
Unexpired Vehicle registration/title
U.S. Selective Service carte
Voter's registration card issued inside last 3 years
Federal Census records issued within last 3 years
Filed Court documents
Pay stub (within final 30 days)
Utility bill (dated within last 60 days)
Valid DC ONE carte du jour
W2 from the previous yr
DD214 military discharge/separation certificate
Infirmary Newborn Discharge document related to a nascency occurring within the last twelvemonth
Official correspondence from U.s. Citizenship and Immigration Services

If the kiosk is unable to cosign your identity, you will exist required to present ONE form of primary photo ID and Ii of the documents from the list below. (These options volition announced when you lot present your primary photo ID.)

Signed Social Security card or Social Security Disbursement Statement
Vehicle registration/title
Utility bill (dated within the last 60 days)
Sealed court documents
W2 from the previous twelvemonth
Hospital Newborn Discharge certificate related to a nascence occurring inside the terminal year
Official correspondence from U.s. Citizenship and Immigration Services

To register for a domestic partnership

Both applicants must be at least 18 years of age, unmarried, competent to enter a contract, and not engaged in some other domestic partnership.

They must show they share a mutual, permanent residence by submitting ONE of the following:

A electric current residential charter or rental agreement naming both applicants as occupants
A current residential mortgage that names both applicants equally mortgagors
A human activity for residential property stating that both applicants share championship to the premises
An affidavit executed within the last six months IF valid photo identification has the same home address

Both applicants must exist present in person to register the partnership,by appointment only, in the DC Vital Records part located at 899 North Capitol Street, NE, 1st Flooring Washington, DC 20002. Thousand ake an appointment at https://dchealth.dc.gov/folio/vital-records-appointments or call (202) 442-9303 option 1 and then option 9.

Completed forms may exist brought to DC Vital Records for review by both partners without an date.

Download forms (PDFs)

Domestic Partnership Registration Grade ($45 fee)
Instructions

Affidavit of Mutual Residence
Request for Declaration

To terminate a domestic partnership

Filing for termination

One or both parties can file to terminate the domestic partnership by appointment only in the DC Vital Records office located at 899 Due north Capitol Street, NE, 1st Floor Washington, DC 20002. G ake an engagement at https://dchealth.dc.gov/folio/vital-records-appointments or call (202) 442-9303 option ane and then pick 9.

Completed forms may be brought to DC Vital Records for review without an appointment or mailed to the address below:

Attn. CSCO Unit
Vital Records Division
District of Columbia Department of Wellness
899 Northward Capitol Street, NE
1st Floor
Washington, DC 20002

When the partnership is related to benefits, partners must inform applicative third parties about partnership termination. Failure to notify does non conduct a penalisation; all the same whatsoever person who makes a imitation statement in a domestic partnership agreement or fails to notify an employer about a alter in status can be sued in a civil activity. Additionally, falsification of vital records forms and applications may event in punitive activeness (D.C. Code § 7–231.28).

There is a 6-calendar month waiting catamenia to terminate a domestic partnership. During this time, all benefits continue to both partners, and the partner(south) who filed can submit a request to withdraw the termination at whatever time, if the partnership notwithstanding meets the requirements for a domestic partnership. Subsequently the six-calendar month waiting menstruum, partners would demand to establish a new partnership through the application process.

Forms (PDFs) and fees