Registration now multilingual

DEATHS, births and marriages in Londonderry can now be registered in Polish, Hindi, Latvia, Cantonese and Farsi - testimony to the city’s growing multi-culturalism.
By The Newsroom
Published 26th May 2011, 10:53 BST

Derry City Council’s District Registrar’s Office is demonstrating its commitment to improving Community Relations with the launch of forms in a range of languages for use in producing official documentation.

Forms for registering Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnership and notes on how to register a death are now available in Polish, Hindi, Latvian, Cantonese and Farsi.

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Michelle Duddy from the Registrar’s Office said: “Derry City Council is seeking to mainstream Good Relations in all areas of its service provision – specifically on this occasion within its registry service.

“The city is a place of ever increasing diversity with an increasingly global outlook, and with the launch of the new multi-lingual we are recognising that trend. Filling in official documentation in a foreign language can be a daunting process and by producing forms in multilingual format we will improve the sense of inclusion for foreign nationals who are resident in our city.”