New Zealand Document Resources
Birth, Death, Marriage Certificates
New Zealand birth, marriage and death certificates can be ordered online. Most certificates are issued in 1 -2 weeks:
Order a New Zealand marriage certificate
Order a New Zealand birth certificate
Order a New Zealand death certificate
If you need your New Zealand birth or marriage certificate for presentation abroad and need to have it certified by Apostille or attested, Isareycan take care of the whole process for you. We will order a replacement copy for you and obtain an Apostille from the Authentications Unit.
If you are a New Zealand citizen and want to get married overseas, you may require a Certificate of No Impediment or Single Status certificate. The Certificate of No Impediment is evidence no lawful impediment to the intended marriage/civil union has been shown to exist and that according to New Zealand laws you are eligible to be married or enter into a civil union. If the recipient country requires a Certificate of Single Status, New Zealand can provide a Certificate or Search that states that a search of the marriage and civil union registers has been carried out from a certain date.
Criminal Record Certificates
You can request your own New Zealand criminal record check online. The service is free and takes around three working days. You’ll receive your results by email. Email results are treated as a formal document in the same way as if you received them in the post. If you apply using a paper form, and you do not provide an email address, the result will sent by post.
FAQs: FAQs - New Zealand criminal history checks
Notary Services
Certain documents need to be notarized in New Zealand before they can be certified by Apostille, including Power of attorney, certain university records, school records, wills and probates and Medical documents.
Document verification
Overseas organisations can check that the apostille they have received matches the information in the Authentication Unit database.