Deleting pre-adoption data What is changing?

From 1 January 2022, adoptive parents can no longer submit a request to have data from before the adoption removed from the personal list of the adopted child. Only the adopted child (aged 16 or older) can make such a request. This change ensures that the 'pedigree data' of the child (BRP data from before the adoption) can no longer be removed from the BRP by someone else.

It is therefore no longer possible for adoptive parents to have data from before the adoption removed from the personal list of the child. This concerns, among other things:

the (previous) name;

one or both parents;

the nationality and/or historical address details lost during adoption.

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