The application process

As a part of your application you need to provide identification.

This is done by including:

1. copies of two different kinds of identification showing:
   • your legal name (which must match your application)
   • your birth date on at least one.
2. a photo of yourself holding one of these pieces of identification.

The following are acceptable kinds of identification:

• driver licence, learner permit, firearm licence or marine licence
• proof of age card
• keypass
• Commonwealth Government concession card (including health care card)
• Department of Veterans Affairs health card
• birth certificate
• a Working with Children Check Card
• current pensioner concession card
• current medicare card
• passport
• bank card (copies of both sides) issued by an Australian institution
• bank statement issued by an Australian institution
• utility statement (gas, water, electricity, mobile or home phone)
• Australian Taxation Office assessment
• student or tertiary institution identification card
• executed lease agreement.

If your name has changed since you were removed, please provide a copy of the document(s) showing your name change:

• marriage certificate
• registration of name change (Deed Poll)
• adoption certificate or similar (contact us if you require help accessing this)
• another official document verifying name change (such as a statutory declaration).

You can include these documents when you submit your application or give them to us later if you wish. But you need to provide these documents before your application can progress.

If you do not have access to this information, an organisation may confirm your identity.

Please contact us for more information at stolen.generations@justice.vic.gov.au(opens in a new window).

You can seek support from:

• a Bringing Them Home worker
• Connecting Home(opens in a new window)
• Link-Up Victoria(opens in a new window)
• your local Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service(opens in a new window).

You do NOT need to provide proof of your removal.

When you submit your application, you can give us permission to search government and other records on your behalf.

If you already have records about your removal, you can choose to provide them to us. This may speed up the processing of your application.

We are looking for records that show:

• you were removed from your family
• that you were removed before 31 December 1976 (for example, a record with date of removal)
• that you were first removed in Victoria (for example, a record stating where you were initially removed from)
• the time period of your removal (for example, a record showing you were adopted or a record that showed you were removed for more than three months).