Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 2791. First, know what you are filling: Notice of Release/Acknowledgement of Convicted Sex Offender Registration Requirements. The document is titled DD Form 2791, Notice of Release/Acknowledgement of Convicted Sex Offender Registration Requirements, March 2013.
Then look at the edition date: not stated, publisher status not stated. After that, ask whether the form covers your situation. It almost certainly does regardless of your branch — DD forms run Department-wide rather than through a single service.
Once you know the form fits, find out when you file it. not stated sets the requirement, and not stated maintains the form itself. Your own command or agency adds local timing on top of that, so ask your administrative office if the deadline matters to you.
Before you download, pick your approach — editable file or printed page. What follows covers the formats first, then the entries, then what you do afterward.
Start at the header. Complete your identification before anything else, then work through the main entries, then finish at the certification. Skipping around causes contradictions between the top of the form and the bottom.
Before your first entry, look at the corner of the page and compare the printed date with not stated. If they do not match, stop and download again. Old copies circulate in shared drives for years, and a DD form is revised centrally for every service at once, so a superseded blank may not carry the fields your reviewer expects.
Take the fields in order and answer all of them. Mark inapplicable items N/A instead of leaving white space. When you reach a date, copy the format shown on the form, since a reviewer reading a different convention may misread your entry entirely.
Stop at the Privacy Act Statement and read it through. You will find the authority for the collection, the principal purpose, the routine uses, and whether disclosure is voluntary or mandatory. Read it now, while you still have the choice of what to disclose.
Sign only after every other entry is complete. Use ink on a printed copy, or a credentialed digital signature — CAC-based, in a reader that handles it — on an electronic one. A typed name satisfies neither method. Enter the date next to it before you close the file.
Run a final pass over the form. The errors that send it back are the same ones every time: old edition, gaps in required fields, unreadable handwriting on a scan, non-conforming dates, no signature or no date.
Look up an unclear item on the form face before anywhere else, then in not stated. Should the two texts conflict, the directive is the one you follow.
Download the form
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 3 pages and about 62 entries.
Choose pdf as your default. Next, click inside a box. A fillable pdf responds by outlining the field and letting you type; the text stays in the document when you save it. A printable pdf does not respond, which tells you to print the page and complete it by hand.
Type when you can. Printed entries stay legible after the form is scanned, copied and forwarded, and handwriting often does not survive that trip. If you must write by hand, use block capitals and press firmly.
Before you take the xfdl file, make sure you can open it. Install IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or an equivalent client first, because your pdf reader will refuse the file. Then download and complete it as normal.
You will not be charged for any of these; the whole set is free. Before you start entering data, save the file to your computer and open it there. Fields behave far more reliably in a desktop reader than in a browser preview.
What the form asks for
- 1. To: Press space bar to mark X in first box if state law enforcement, second box if local law enforcement, third box if state sex offender registration official, or fourth box if U.S. Marshals - National Sex Offender Targeting Center.
- 1.a. Address (include zip code).
- b. Date: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 2. Name of offender: last, first, middle initial.
- 3. Date of birth: 4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day.
- 4. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 5. Discharged? X first box if yes, second if no.
- 6. Appellate review: X first box if yes, second if no.
- 7. Current and prior history of sexual offenses. a. Offense title and description (5 words or more), line 1 of 4.
- b. Date of conviction (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- c. Place of conviction (installation or city and state).
- d. Victim's age/date of birth (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- a. Specific offense title and description, line 2.
- b. Date of conviction.
- c. Place of conviction (installation or city and state).
- d. Victim's age/date of birth.
- 7. Current and prior history of sexual offenses. a. Offense title and description, line 3.
- b. Date of conviction.
- c. Place of conviction (installation or city and state).
- d. Victim's age/date of birth.
- 8. Maximum release date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 9. Release conditions or restrictions.
- 10. Facility or command releasing offender. a. Name of facility or command.
- b. Address (include ZIP code).
With the form finished, route it to the office named in not stated or in your organization's own instruction. Keep a copy first. People rarely regret having one and frequently regret not having one.
Should you need a related form, look it up by its number. The DD sequence is Department-wide, which makes your search simple: no service qualifier, no branch-specific variant to track down.
Here is where people go wrong. They see a number in an instruction and download whichever form matches it. But DA and DD are separate systems — Army-specific in one case, Department-wide under not stated in the other — so check which series you were sent to before you take the file.
Do not archive this file and reuse it in a year. Forms are reissued as directives are revised, as data requirements shift, and as statutory notice text is amended. Your protection is simple: download fresh each time and confirm the edition date.
Before you go, note what is not covered here. You have the blank form and instructions for completing it; you do not have legal guidance, and no statement on this page determines what any office will do with your submission. Direct those questions to not stated, to the personnel office that serves you, or to the office designated in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2791?
- DD Form 2791, Notice of Release/Acknowledgement of Convicted Sex Offender Registration Requirements, March 2013
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?