For correction, specification and change of documents one must apply to Civil registry office at the place of permanent residence. Application should be attached with documents confirming the necessity of making changes or correction in documents. Below you can see the links passing through you will see the full list of required documents in your particular situation.

• The procedure for registering the birth of a child and the list of documents for making additions, changes, corrections to the birth certificate and act records;
• The procedure for registration of death and the list of documents for making changes and additions to the death certificate and act records; 
• The procedure for registering marriage and making changes, additions and corrections to the marriage certificate and act records; 
• The procedure for registering the dissolution of marriage (matrimony) and making changes, additions and corrections to the certificate of dissolution of marriage and act records;
• The procedure for registering the establishment of paternity and making changes, additions and corrections to the certificate of establishment of paternity and act records;
• The procedure for registering adoption and making changes, additions and corrections to the adoption certificate and act records;
• The procedure for registering the change of name, patronymic, surname and making changes, additions and corrections to the certificate of the change of surname, patronymic and act records;

If the record is correct but was lost you can see required documents and order of re-issuance of records of civil status acts. And if the certificate became invalid you can see how to change it on the page – getting of repeated certificates and references on registration of civil status acts.  

In the article 537 of Tax Code you can find the amount of state fees while registration of acts of civil status, i.e. the amount that is necessary to be paid for getting of repeated certificates or documents because of change, addition, correction and recovery of acts record  on birth, marriage, divorcement, death.  

• amount of payment for marriage registration - 1 MCI;
• amount of payment for registration of divorcement:
  • by mutual consent of spouses no having under aged children - 2 MCI; 
  • by court decision - 1,5 MCI (from one or both spouses); 
  • by court decision with missing or disabled people or convicted for more than 3 years - 0,1 MCI; 
• amount and payment for registration of name, surname , patronymic, nationality and gender change - 2 MCI, and for each issued on this basis document of spouse, children - 0,5 MCI;
• amount of payment for getting of certificate with change, addition, correction and recovery of record of acts on birth, marriage, divorcement, death - 0,5 MCI;
• amount of payment for getting of repeated certificates on registration of acts of civil status - 1 MCI;
• amount of payment for registration of adoption by foreign citizens - 2  MCI;
• amount of payment for getting of references to RK citizens on registration of civil status acts - 0,3 MCI;
• amount of payment for reclamation of certificates on registration of civil status acts from CIS countries - 0,5 MCI;
• amount of payment for reclamation of certificates on registration of civil status acts from foreign states except CIS countries - 1 MCI.

While making changes, additions and corrections in documents it’s necessary to pay state fee in size of 0,5 MCI. Instead of this you will get a new certificate with correct data.

Because of peculiarities of Kazakh language and getting of documents in first years of country’s independence many documents of citizens contained some mistakes. How must the names and surnames containing specific sounds be written? Is there supposed to be a translation or transliteration in documents? Actually each case has individual approach and this is discussed while applying. Therewith one should remember that the change of writing the surname from Russian language into Kazakh is not considered to be change, addition, correction and the corrections are not put in act record.  

Persons of Kazakh nationality, at their request, have the right to change the spelling of their surnames and patronymics with the exception of affixes unusual for the Kazakh language, but with the preservation of the root bases of surnames and patronymics. In this case, the endings "uly" or "kyzy" are added to the father's name when writing the patronymic, depending on the gender of the person.

If you want to change surname deducting the ending “-ova, -yeva, -ina” (for example: Akhmetzhanova for Akhmetzhan) or to change surname or name taking into consideration the specific letters of Kazakh language (example: Galymzhanova for Galymzhanova or Galymzhan) and add the endings "uly" or "kyzy" to the father's name when writing the middle name, depending on the gender of the person, it’s necessary to apply to «State-owned corporation «Government for citizens» NJSC with application for getting of identity card.

If you want to make such changes in child’s documents in accordance with national and historic traditions you must apply to «State-owned corporation «Government for citizens» NJSC or Civil registry office for repeated certificate in Kazakh language transliteration.  

Usually surname of child is determined by surname of one of the parents or by parents desire it can be derivative from grandfather’s name of any part. Unfortunately, there are some conditions when the surname of under aged child must be changed. According to articles 64 and 65 of the Code “On marriage (matrimony) and family” to change nationality, name or surname of child is possible in following order.  

If the parents are in marriage, by their application before reaching the age of 16 years Civil Registry office may allow to change the name of child and if necessary – surname, but only for surname of other parent.

Upon divorcement by default a child keeps surname received by him at birth. If parents are officially divorced then the permission for child’s surname change of the parent with who he does not live is not required. If the spouses are divorced, but haven’t fixed it legally in Civil registry office – it’s necessary to provide the permission of both parents to change the child’s name regardless of the fact with who the child lives. In this case the opinion of parent cannot be taken into consideration if he/she is missing, disabled and if he/she abandoned from supporting and upbringing of child without reasonable excuses.  

If a child was born out of marriage and paternity is nor set officially, the surname of child can be changed on surname of mother which she has at the moment.

Nationality of child by default is determined by nationality of his parents. If the parents are of different nationalities then it is determined by the wish of child when he gets passport or identity card. Next time nationality can be changed on the nationality of other parent.