Death Registration

  • Medical Cause of Death Certificate or Confirmation letter from Ministry of Health and Medical Service (MOHMS)
  • Informants valid photo ID
  • Deceased certified birth certificate or passport biodata page (For Foreigners only)
  • Deceased marriage certificate (For Foreign Marriage)
  • Deceased issue’s birth certificate (For Foreign births)

Death Information Details:

  • Deceased Vola ni Kawa Bula details (for ITaukei only)
  • Date and Place of Burial
  • Witness name- Church Minister/Pundit/ Moulana/ Someone who attended attended the burial ceremony.
  • Spouse name and date of birth
  • Issues Name with date of births

Fijian national declared dead Overseas (War Service)

  • Informant valid photo ID
  • Court order proving the death in any place out of Fiji or
  • Death certificate under the hand of a member of the naval or military forces or
  • Medical certificate cause of death from next of kin

Fijian national declared dead Overseas

*To update birth certificate status of death overseas.

  • Informant valid photo ID
  • Translated death certificate or medical certificate cause of death

Special Death Registration – Inquest Death

* Death will be registered if unable to find the missing person after 7 years.

  • Informant valid photo ID
  • Court Order

Special Death Registration – Death in Circumstances

*To register death in natural disasters where the body cannot be found

  • Informant valid photo ID
  • Statutory declaration from informant is mandatory if person is deceased outside hospitals or medical center.
  • Confirmatory letter from MOH
  • Confirmation letter or Statutory Declaration from the village headman/ advisory council/ witness
  • Statutory declaration from the village head/witness
  • Police Report (if any)

Death Update – Old Death Transfer

*This process will enable BDM office to update old deaths records into the system records

  • Informant valid photo ID
  • Death Certificate
  • Marriage certificate and birth certificate if foreigner
  • VKB certificate (if iTaukei)

Addition of issues to Pre-Registered Death

*This process will enable BDM office to add issues to pre-existing death registration.

  • Informant’s valid photo ID
  • Birth certificate of Issues from De Facto
  • 2 credible persons’;
    • 1 person – Legal spouse or issues from legal spouse
    • 1 person – De Facto or issues from De Facto

De Facto Registering Death (Legal spouse and issues from legal spouse not present)

Relative or De-Facto Registering Death in the absence of legal spouse and issues –This process will enable BDM office to proceed with death registration in the absence of Legal spouse and issues from legal spouse.

  • Informant valid photo ID
  • Statutory Declaration
  • Medical certificate cause of death