Tokelau Civil Registration

Offices to Contact
Tokelau Government, links for ordering birth, marriage, and death certificates

For ordering a Birth Certificate, can also contact Ruby via email [mailto:ruby.fuimaono@tokelau.org.nz ruby.fuimaono@tokelau.org.nz] or telephone +685 7600364

Historical Background
In 1863, Peruvian slave traders kidnapped nearly all (253) of the able-bodied men to work as laborers. Very few of these men returned. Soon after that time, Polynesian, American, Scottish, French, Portuguese and German men came and married local women.

Between 1856 and 1979, the United States claimed that it held sovereignty over the island and the other Tokelauan atolls.[citation needed] In 1979, the U.S. conceded that Tokelau was under New Zealand sovereignty, and a maritime boundary between Tokelau and American Samoa was established by the Treaty of Tokehega.