UK ESA Register
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A private register · Not a legal document

An emotional support animal certificate for your pet, and a card that fits in your wallet.

Their name, their photo and a register reference you can check, on a certificate made to be framed and a register card at true bank-card size. Both arrive by email within a minute. £30, current for 18 months, and nothing that renews by itself.

Register your pet for £30

A private register. Not a government scheme, and not a legal document.

Charged in euros, approx. £30. The euro amount is shown on the payment page; the amount on your statement may vary with your bank's exchange rate and fees.

Renting, and the landlord is the problem? Start here instead

What you receive

  1. A numbered A4 certificate bearing your animal’s name and photograph.
  2. A register card at bank-card size.
  3. A public verification page that anyone may check in seconds.
  4. Delivered by email within one minute. Current for 18 months. One payment; nothing renews.

Before you buy

A certificate, a register card and a number anyone can check, for £30 once. Before you buy it, here is the part most registries put in the small print.

What an emotional support animal is, in plain words

There is no official UK register, ours included

No government body in the United Kingdom registers emotional support animals. There is no statutory scheme, no application and no list to be accepted onto. Every registry here is a private business keeping its own records, and that is what ours is.

Emotional support animals also have no special status in UK law. The Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people accompanied by trained assistance dogs; an emotional support animal is a different thing and carries no rights of access to housing, shops, transport or anywhere else.

So a registration cannot make a landlord, an airline or a hotel accept your pet. Anyone selling you one on that basis is selling you something that does not exist.

Renting in England

A register entry is not, in itself, grounds for a landlord’s consent. The route recognised in law is a written request under section 11 of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025. Your landlord is required to respond in writing within 28 days and may not refuse unreasonably. Our free template sets out that request for you to complete.

Read the free letter template

The register card and the A4 certificate, as they arrive. A real register number takes the place of the dots.

Already microchipped? This is something else.

The microchip is required by law and does one job: if your dog or cat is lost, a scanner at a vet or a rescue links the chip to your details. It says nothing about what the animal is to you, and nobody can read it without the scanner.

A register entry is the paperwork for the rest. It records that this is your emotional support animal, with their name and photo, on a numbered certificate and a wallet card you can show anyone, and on a public page that anyone can check in ten seconds with no equipment. It sits alongside the chip. It does not replace it.

  • Something you can show: on paper, in your wallet, or on a phone screen
  • Says what the animal is to you, not only who owns them
  • Checkable by anyone in ten seconds, no scanner

A private register. Not a government scheme, and not a legal document.

Charged in euros, approx. £30. The euro amount is shown on the payment page; the amount on your statement may vary with your bank's exchange rate and fees.

Register your pet for £30

What you actually get

A certificate sized for A4 with your pet’s photo, details and a unique registration number, and a register card at true bank-card size carrying the same number and a QR code.

Both arrive by email as separate PDFs within about a minute of paying, so you can print one without touching the other. The number stays checkable at a public page for 18 months, and the date it runs to is printed on both documents.

Why it is one payment

Most UK registries charge £30 to £50 every twelve months. Over a dog’s ten-year life that is up to £500, and it arrives whether you thought about it or not.

An entry here is current for eighteen months, six longer, and then it stops. Nothing is charged when it does, because no card details are kept. If you want another, you buy another, and that is a decision rather than a direct debit.

What there is to buy

The Certificate£30

Registration, certificate and register card. One payment, current for 18 months.

Charged in euros, approx. £30. The euro amount is shown on the payment page; the amount on your statement may vary with your bank's exchange rate and fees.

Not a legal document. UK ESA Register is a private service, not a government body, and no official UK register of emotional support animals exists. It does not give you a legal right to keep a pet, to housing, or to access with your animal.

Register your pet

Questions, answered plainly

Will registration give my pet legal rights?
No. Nothing sold by us or by anyone else creates a legal right in the UK, because emotional support animals have no legal status here.
Do I need a letter from a doctor first?
No, and we do not sell one. We ask nothing about your health at any point. In the UK no letter from any professional gives an emotional support animal legal standing.
How long does it take?
About two minutes to fill in, and the documents arrive by email within a minute of paying.
Can I add a photo later?
Yes, once. For 14 days after you pay, the page your confirmation email links to lets you add a photo, or change the one you gave, and the certificate and card are made again with it. After that the documents are final. It is optional: without one, both documents say no photograph was supplied.

UK ESA Register is a private service and is not a government body. No official register of emotional support animals exists in the United Kingdom, and emotional support animals have no special status in UK law. This certificate is a keepsake and a convenience credential for everyday conversations. It creates no right of access to housing, transport, shops or anywhere else, and nobody is obliged to accept it. In England, the right that actually helps renters is the right to request consent to keep a pet under section 11 of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025. UK ESA Register is not a law firm and this page is not legal advice.