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Save the Edited Electoral Register
October Films BAP Documentary
New GRO Phone Number
Descendants of Deceased Adopted Persons (DAP) Campaign Update
Updated List of GRO Index Sites
Adopted Adults Get Together November 2011
BAAF Twitterchat on Adoption Search and Reunion
Ten Top Tips on contact via social networks
BBC Documentary on Adoption and Facebook
Adoption and Interpersonal Relationships Study
Results of Tracing Birth Relatives Survey
New Tracing Guide Launched
Research on adoptions from China and Hong Kong
Contribute to play about people adopted from Hong Kong
New ITV series to reunite families
Tracing birth relatives survey
Call for submissions for anthology
Research on the sibling relationships of adopted adults
Edited Electoral Register consultation
Accessing information if you live abroad
Descendants of Deceased Adopted Persons new petition
New pages added to ASR website
Descendents of Deceased Adopted Persons petition
Descendants of Deceased Adopted Persons campaign
Practice Guidance pubilshed
Family History Show 2008
GRO moves to IPS
Veto forms available
Access to information FAQs
ASR website proving popular
ASR website officially launched
Pointers for Practice now available
New books on recommended reading lists
ASR website news
BAAF welcomes full implementation of Act
Locating Adoption Records Database Accessible to All
Norcap Register Transfers to Family Action
FamilyConnect Website Launched
Temporary Locating Adoption Records Database Arrangements
New Holder for NORCAP Contact Register
Extended Access to Intermediary Services
NORCAP Contact Register Update
BAAF Services Move to Coram
BAAF Services Move to Coram
Welsh Adoption Information Guidance Amended
Disclosure of the Birth Name of an Adopted Person Under New Regulations
Intermediary Services for Descendants of Adopted People
Adoption Remembrance Day
ESRC Huddersfield Adoption Event
Merger Forms PAC-UK
Location of the Probate Registry
Georgie Stafford's Contribution
Tracing Guide Updated
Updating our Databases
Consultation on Intermediary Services For Relatives Of Adopted People
ASR website survey
DAP Campaign Success
Descendants of Deceased Adopted People Campaign Udate
Descendents of Deceased Adopted People Amendment Tabled
Demise of NORCAP Register
Long Lost Family Prompts Family Searches
Hong Kong adoptees reunion
AAA-NORCAP Closes
Post adoption services survey findings published
Contact Register Changes
Article in Independent
Home >> News >> GRO moves to IPS
Transfer of GRO to Identity and Passport Service - 19/10/07
It has been announced that the General Register Office (GRO) will become part of the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) from 1 April 2008.
Full details of the changes can be found on the GRO website.

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