General Register Office: Marriage Certificates

(asked on 20th April 2020) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the average time taken is for the General Register Office to correct a marriage certificate that contains an error.


Answered by
Kevin Foster Portrait
Kevin Foster
This question was answered on 29th April 2020

GRO has a target of 25 working days to process an application for a correction.

The length of time before the correction is made is dependent on other factors such as the production of the correct evidence and the availability of the person who has custody of the register(s); as only they can correct the entry.

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