Access adoption records

There are many reasons to apply for access to Yukon adoption records.

• Many adopted people want to know about their biological origins and cultural heritage.
• Birth parents may also want information about the health and well-being of their children who were adopted.
• Sometimes, adopted people and birth parents want to meet.

Applying for your adoption records

You can apply to receive Yukon adoption records if you're:

• an adoptee over the age of 19; or
• a birth parent whose child is over the age of 19.

Available records

For adoptees

If you were born and adopted in the Yukon, you'll receive a copy of your:

• original birth registration in your birth name, including the names of any birth parents on record; and
• adoption order.

If you were not born in the Yukon, but were adopted in the Yukon, you'll receive:

• a copy of the adoption order.

If a disclosure veto or a no-contact declaration was filed, we cannot provide these records.

For birth parents

If you're a birth parent of a person born and adopted in the Yukon, you'll receive a copy of the:

• adopted person’s original birth registration;
• adopted person’s birth registration following adoption, including any change of name following the adoption; and
• adoption order.

Before any adoption record is released to a birth parent, we delete all identifying information about the adoptive parents to protect their right to privacy.

Cost

There is no cost to apply for these records.

How to apply

1. Print and fill in this application form in full. We will not process incomplete applications.
2. Attach a photocopy of your birth certificate or driver's licence to the form.
3. Submit the completed form and identification.

• Fax: 867-393-6204
• In person:
  Suite 401, 4114 4th Avenue (the Royal Bank building) in Whitehorse. Our office is open 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday.
• Mail:
  Government of Yukon
  Family and Children’s Services, Adoption Disclosures (H–10)
  Box 2703
  Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2C6