Central Record for Birth and Death Department - In Person

1. A death certificate may be obtained from the Central Record for Birth and Death Department or any of the pertaining centers according to the location of death.
2. Submit your request together with other required documents (see list below).

If you are outside Kuwait

You may use the link provided under "Office Locations & Contacts" to get in touch with the nearest Kuwait Embassy in the country you are currently staying. They may be able to help you submit your request to obtain a death certificate.

• Original civil ID of the deceased and a copy, if the deceased was a Kuwaiti citizen and death was of natural causes
• Applicant's birth certificate to prove that the deceased was his/her mother, if the deceased mother was a Kuwaiti citizen, the applicant was her son or daughter, and death was of natural causes
• Applicant's marriage contract to prove that the deceased was his wife, if the deceased wife was a Kuwaiti citizen, and death was of natural causes
• Original civil ID of the deceased and a copy and a copy of the passport, if the deceased was a resident and death was of natural causes
• Letter from the embassy authorizing one person to issue the death certificate, if the deceased was a resident, had no relatives in the State of Kuwait, and death was of natural causes
• Letter from the Central Record for Birth and Death Department to the Executive Committee for the Foreign Affairs of Illegal Residents stating the nationality of the deceased, if the deceased was a resident whose nationality was undefined and death was of natural causes
• Death announcement from the coroner, if death was not of natural causes

Ministry of Health
Telephone: 24810932
Fax: 24865414

Kuwait Embassies in Foreign Countries

• One of the heirs must attend the procedures
• Death must have occurred in the State of Kuwait

Replace a lost certificate: (0.750) KD

Explain the time until which the certificate/document is valid.
e.g. Birth Certificate Valid Forever

Please attach documents that can be used by people. e.g. links

Please attach sample completed documents that would help other people.

Please explain processing time taken in obtaining the document/certificate.

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications. 
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type="website">video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites.
Please remove the "&" inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver, 
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M" Video ID is "Y0US7oR_t3M". 
	

Please provide instructions on obtaining the certificate/documents.
e.g. The state office holds birth records since january 1908.

A list which displays the kind of information which is required to complete the procedure.
e.g.
1. Date of Birth.
2. City or County of Birth.

This procedure provides you information on how you can obtain a death certificate.

Enter other informations which might help

Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

Kuwait Government Online

More information which might help people.