Vital Statistics Services, part of the Wyoming Department of Health, issues the state certified copies from the first floor of the Hathaway Building at 2300 Capitol Avenue in Cheyenne. Its vital records pages describe the two stage system behind the certificate: vital events are filed with the registrar in the county of occurrence and then recorded with the state, so the state office holds the central copy of a record first created locally. Birth records run from 1909 onwards, and they become open to the public once they are a hundred years old.
A certified copy costs twenty five dollars, and there are three ways to order: online through the state portal, in person at the Cheyenne office, and by post on the department downloadable forms. The online route adds a convenience fee of two point four per cent with a one dollar minimum on every order, and requires an image of a valid government issued identification to be uploaded before the order can be processed. Local offices that issue vital records appear on the Wyoming county pages.
- Twenty five dollars a copy: the certified birth certificate fee, with a card convenience fee added online.
- Fifteen days to answer: a query sent to your portal inbox cancels the request if it is not answered, with no refund.
- Records from 1909: and open to the public once a birth record is a hundred years old.
- Free worksheets: the mother and marriage worksheets on the portal carry no fee at all.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Wyoming's own systems: the Wyoming Department of Health vital records services pages, the department page on how to order certificates, the Wyoming vital statistics services portal, the federal guidance on where to write for Wyoming vital records, each read on October 15, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
Setting up on the portal
The online route begins with an account rather than an order. A first time user opens the menu, chooses to log in, and then signs up, either through an external authentication service or by entering an email address and password and clicking the verification link that arrives by email. The office also asks users to allow cookies and pop ups for the site, which is the usual cause of an order that will not submit. Once logged in, the requester selects the type of certificate wanted and completes every required field, then uploads an image of a valid government issued identification.
Anyone who does not hold a valid government identification is asked to telephone the office rather than abandon the request, since there are other ways to establish identity.
The fifteen day inbox rule
Wyoming communicates about problem orders inside the portal rather than by email or letter, and attaches a deadline to it. Where a certificate request is missing required details or needs additional information, the office contacts the requester through their portal inbox, which appears in the left menu once a profile exists. The requester must respond within fifteen days. Those who do not respond in a timely manner have their requests cancelled, and the office states that any fees paid for a cancelled order cannot be refunded.
The practical lesson is to check the portal inbox after ordering rather than waiting for the certificate to arrive, because a message sitting unread there is a clock running down on twenty five dollars.
What the online order costs on top
Online orders must be paid by credit card, and every order placed carries a convenience fee of two point four per cent with a one dollar minimum. On a single twenty five dollar certificate that is a dollar; on a larger order it rises with the total. Delivery is by first class post unless the requester arranges otherwise, and the office offers a route for that: buy a prepaid label from a courier or the postal service, receive it, then upload the electronic label to the order in the identification image upload section so that the office can attach it to the mailing.
The office is specific about how the label must be made out, with the requester address listed as both the sender and the addressee.
Ordering by post
A requester who cannot use the portal downloads the certificate ordering forms from the department website and posts the request to Cheyenne. Payment is by personal cheque or money order made payable to Vital Statistics Services, and the office accepts a personal cheque only where it is personalised with the signer current name and address, which rules out counter cheques and starter cheques. The identification requirement is a legible photocopy of a current state issued identification or passport showing the applicant signature.
Identification carrying no expiration date is generally not accepted unless it was recently issued, and the office may ask for additional proof of identity where it is not satisfied.
The hundred year line
Wyoming birth records become open to the public once they are a hundred years old, which places the boundary for a researcher at the first decade of the state register. Since the office holds birth records from 1909 onwards, the open range grows by a year each year, and a researcher working on a Wyoming family will find the earliest state records already outside the restricted period. For anything before 1909 the state office has nothing to issue, and the county registrar where the event occurred, together with church, census and newspaper material, is where the search moves.
The free worksheets
Two of the portal services cost nothing. A new mother may complete the mother worksheet, which provides the information the birth facility uses to create the child birth certificate, so that the details on the certificate come from the parent rather than from a hurried form filled in at the hospital. A marriage applicant may complete the marriage worksheet, which provides the information the county clerk uses to create the marriage licence application.
Both require an account and a log in, and the office states plainly that there is no fee for worksheets. For a parent, completing the worksheet carefully is the cheapest way to avoid an amendment later.
Corrections, paternity and adoption
Beyond issuing copies, Vital Statistics Services files corrections for a person whose birth, death or marriage occurred in Wyoming. It records acknowledgments of paternity, which legally establish the father of a child, under the Wyoming Parentage Act at section 14-2-401 and following of the state statutes. And it files adoptions for people born in Wyoming, and for people born in a foreign country and re adopted through Wyoming district courts, which produces a new Wyoming certificate for a child adopted from abroad.
Where the vital event happened in another state, the department points the requester to the federal where to write guidance rather than attempting to help, since it holds only Wyoming records.
Questions about Wyoming birth certificates
Related Wyoming records
Wyoming's other records guides on this site are the Wyoming public records law guide for the Public Records Act, the Wyoming death records guide for the same office, the Wyoming court records guide for the judicial branch records, and the Wyoming county pages for every county office.