Death Certificate Registration Online: Full Guide

Are you looking to register the death of someone you know? Learn the complete process of death registration in this discussion.

If you need to go to register a death, or if you want to register a death online from home, what procedures you need to follow, what to do after online death registration, and which documents you will need, we will try to cover all these topics here.

Death Registration

Just as we register the birth of a child because birth registration is useful in many cases for the child, similarly, death registration is also very important.

If you want to claim ownership of any property of a deceased person or receive government assistance officially, you need to register the death and show the death certificate as proof.

For these reasons, death registration becomes quite necessary. To receive benefits in such cases or to claim property ownership as an heir, the death registration should be done.

Let’s see the step-by-step guide on how to do death registration.

How to Register for Someone’s Death

First, let’s learn how death registration can be done.

Just like we go to the nearest birth registration office or do it online to register our child’s birth, similarly, you can go to your nearest birth registration office to register the death of any of your acquaintances.

But if you want to do it from home, you can do that too. Because sometimes, the death registration offices are always crowded and there is traffic jam.

Due to the constant crowd, going there causes wastage of time and money.

To avoid wasting money and time, we can very easily do death registration online.

To know how to do death registration online, you need to follow some steps. We have presented all these steps below very clearly.

Documents Required for Death Registration

Before registering a death, you need to collect some necessary documents for death registration. These documents are described below.

The documents required to register the death of a person are:

• The deceased person’s birth registration certificate
• Documents or proof related to the date and place of death
• Address of the place of death, the residence address at the time of death, and the current address
• Birth registration number or National ID card of the death registration applicant

Procedure to Apply for Death Registration Online

Once the above documents are collected, we can apply for death registration online. Let’s learn the full step-by-step process of applying for death registration online.

Step 1:

• To apply for death registration online, you first need to enter the Birth & Death Registration website.
• After entering the above link, you will need to provide some information. A form will appear here.

• At the beginning of this form, to register a death, you must enter the birth registration number of the deceased person.
• You need to click the Search button by entering the birth registration number and date of birth of the person whose death you want to register.
• After searching, the birth registration-related information of that person will be displayed here.

• Then you can click the select button to apply for death registration.

Step 2:

• After clicking the select button, the application form for registering the new death of that person will appear.
• Here you need to provide information including the address of the registration office, meaning the details of where you are applying for the death registration.
• For example, you first need to select the country, then the division, then the district, then the city corporation or upazila, then the municipality or union.
• After that, select the address of the municipality or union office here.
• Select all these carefully and then click the next button.

Step 3:

After selecting the address of the death registration office, you need to come here.

Here, you must accurately fill in all the information related to the deceased person.

• For example, details of the deceased person, such as the date of death, must be filled in here, along with the cause of death.
• Below, you will see the birth registration number of the husband or wife.
• After that, the National ID number of the husband or wife, and the wife’s name must be correctly written in both Bengali and English.
• Then you need to click the Next button.

Step 4:

After completing the above step, you must fill out the form containing the place of death and the residence address.

• In this form, you must first provide the details of the place of death.
• You must write all the requested details correctly.
• Below, you will see boxes to provide more information regarding the address of the place of death and the residence address at the time of death.
• You must fill these out.
• However, if the address of the place of death and the residence address at the time of death are the same, you can just click the checkbox option in the middle to complete this.
• Then you need to click the next button.

Step 5:

• After clicking the next button, you will need to fill out another form.
• The person applying for death registration- that is, if you are applying yourself, you must complete this page with your information.

• Here, first, there is a section for applicant information.
• Then a section containing the applicant’s address.
• Then another section named information provider details.
• You must fill in each of these sections correctly with accurate information.
• After providing all this information, click the next button.

Step 6:

• After submitting the above information, when you click the next button, all the information you provided will be shown in review format.

• You must carefully check all this information once to ensure everything is correct.
• If you find any mistake anywhere, you must instantly correct it.
• If all the information is correct, you need to click the submit button.

What to Do After Applying

Now the question is, after you have applied for death registration online, what should you do next? Once you have applied for death registration, you must print a copy of this online application.

If you do this from your phone or from a computer or laptop at home and you do not have a printer, then you can download it as a PDF and later go somewhere else to get it printed.

So, if you do not have a printer, save it as a PDF on your device.

However, when submitting the required documents, you must definitely take this printed copy of the online application with you.

Then, along with the necessary documents mentioned above, take the printed copy of the online application and the required fee to your nearest birth registration office and submit all these documents.

They may call you on a specified date to collect the death registration certificate. So, you can collect the death registration at the appointed time.

Fee for Death Certificate Registration

Many people ask how much fee must be paid for a death certificate registration. There is basically no fee if you apply for a death certificate.

If you apply for the death certificate within 45 days of death, you do not have to pay any fee.

However, if you apply between 45 days and up to 5 years after the death, you will have to pay a fee of 25 taka for the death certificate.

If the death registration is done after 5 years, you will have to pay a fee of 50 taka.

For any problems related to death registration or birth registration, you can visit our website.

If you need any help or want to know further information about the death certificate application, please feel free to ask in the comment box. Thank you.