Birth, Marriage and Death certificates now computer-generated

“The Computer-generated certificate will see enhance security features which include a QR Code to the top left-hand corner of the certificate and invisible making readable only under a black light", the GRO said in a statement.

Birth, Marriage and Death certificates now computer-generated

The General Register Office (GRO) has started the distribution of computer-generated certified copies of birth, deaths and marriages which are registered in Guyana.

“The Computer-generated certificate will see enhance security features which include a QR Code to the top left-hand corner of the certificate and invisible making readable only under a black light”, the GRO said in a statement.

The new certificates are similar in colour and size to the ones presently being issued but the new documents will see all information printed by a computer.

However, with the new certificates’ organizations would first have to contact the GRO to verify the information on the certificate.

“Agencies who use birth, death and or marriage certificates to verify the informing of individuals doing business with them are asked to contact the General Register Office for details on security features and the step-by-step instructions to download the application needed to read the QR Code,” The agency said.

Registrar General, Raymon Cummings explained that “this QR Code could be read by a special App which can be downloaded by any smartphone and you use that App to scan the code, which allows you to see certain special characteristics, which persons who need certificates to be used in the identification and authentication of individuals doing business with them will have access to.”

A project to digitize all records of the General Register Office started about three years ago.

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