Each town sets its own routine for extracts and copies
Each municipality runs its own civil registry counter. Some take online orders, others only booked visits.
Liège
Rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville 6, Château de Péralta, 4031 Liège
Visit on a weekday or Saturday morning for an extract or copy of a Belgian civil record.
Bring identification and enough information to locate the act. If requesting for someone else, prepare proof of relationship, authority and legitimate interest where required. Explain whether you need an extract, full copy, multilingual version or legalisation for foreign use.
Liège
Rue de Herve 451, 4030 Liège
Choose between a full copy with the record’s history and a shorter extract with current details only.
Bring identification and enough information to locate the act. If requesting for someone else, prepare proof of relationship, authority and legitimate interest where required. Explain whether you need an extract, full copy, multilingual version or legalisation for foreign use.
Liège
Rue Général-de-Gaulle 69, 4020 Liège
Request an extract or copy, and ask whether a multilingual extract suits the country receiving your document.
Bring identification and enough information to locate the act. If requesting for someone else, prepare proof of relationship, authority and legitimate interest where required. Explain whether you need an extract, full copy, multilingual version or legalisation for foreign use.
Liège
Rue Saint-Séverin 46, 4000 Liège
Ask for your own record, or for a relative’s by explaining in writing why you need it.
Bring identification and enough information to locate the act. If requesting for someone else, prepare proof of relationship, authority and legitimate interest where required. Explain whether you need an extract, full copy, multilingual version or legalisation for foreign use.
Liège
Potiérue 5, Rez-de-chaussée — Cité administrative, 4000 Liège
Start online for a birth, marriage, death or divorce record, or visit the city-centre counter on a weekday.
Bring identification and enough information to locate the act. If requesting for someone else, prepare proof of relationship, authority and legitimate interest where required. Explain whether you need an extract, full copy, multilingual version or legalisation for foreign use.
Liège
Boulevard Hector-Denis 338b, 4000 Liège
Ask for an extract or copy in person, and arrive early because queue tickets stop shortly before closing.
Bring identification and enough information to locate the act. If requesting for someone else, prepare proof of relationship, authority and legitimate interest where required. Explain whether you need an extract, full copy, multilingual version or legalisation for foreign use.
Related services
For people who cannot cover rent, food or other essentials: what the local social welfare centre can arrange and how to ask for an appointment.
A paper or digital certificate showing where you are registered, with versions for address history or household. Find the municipal office that issues it.
Reset an eID PIN, replace activation codes or set up a digital key for online services. Useful for residents, residence card holders and some non-residents.
The eID for teenagers and adults and the Kids-ID for children. See how applying works and find the municipal office that handles your card.
For anyone who has moved house in Belgium. See who reports, what happens after the address check and which office handles it in your new town.
See who can apply, what is different for children and how to prepare, then find the municipal office that handles passports.
Other countries
Moving on, or comparing before you decide? See how this works elsewhere.
Most offices in Deventer, Hoofddorp, and The Hague
Most offices in Hamburg, Karlsruhe, and Duisburg
Most offices in Warsaw, Kraków, and Szczecin
Most offices in A Coruña, Alicante, and Almería
Where to next
Learn whether you need an extract or a full copy, who can request it and how to reach the civil registry office in your municipality.
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