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Record Your Discharge Paper With the State, Free — Before You Need It

Any veteran holding an original or certified copy of a DD Form 214, DD Form 215 or NGB-22 may have it recorded with the state Recorder's Office at no fee. It creates a copy inside Alaska that you or your family can retrieve later — which matters because nearly all the benefits in this corpus ask for that document, and the federal archive route takes weeks.

Verified August 27, 2026

What this benefit is

Any veteran holding an original or certified copy of a DD Form 214, DD Form 215 or NGB-22 may have it recorded with the state Recorder's Office at no fee. It creates a copy inside Alaska that you or your family can retrieve later — which matters because nearly all the benefits in this corpus ask for that document, and the federal archive route takes weeks.

What it's worth: No-fee recording of your separation document with the state Recorder

  • DD Form 214, DD Form 215 and NGB-22 are all accepted, in original or certified copy.
  • There is no fee.
  • The point is retrievability: once recorded, a copy exists inside Alaska and can be obtained again without going to the federal archive, which takes weeks.
  • Nearly all the benefits in this corpus ask for that document at some stage, so this is worth doing before you need it rather than after.

Who is entitled to it

  • You served in the U.S. armed forces.
  • Your home is in Alaska.

Not sure whether that describes you?

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How to claim it

  1. 1Take the original or a certified copy of your DD-214, DD-215 or NGB-22 to a Department of Natural Resources Recorder's Office.
  2. 2Ask for it to be recorded as a veteran's separation document. There is no fee for this.
  3. 3Do it before you need it. The value is entirely in having the copy the day something asks for it.
  4. 4Tell your family it has been recorded and where. A recorded document nobody knows about helps nobody.
Form
Recording request
File with
Alaska DNR Recorder's Office
Documents you will need
dd214
No renewal
Once granted it does not need renewing.

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