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Registration Process
What is the registration process?
If you are already attending an eye hospital, you should discuss the possibility of registration with your eye specialist. Otherwise, you can discuss it with your GP and ask to be referred to a Consultant Opthalmologist (eye specialist). The Consultant will check your sight, and if appropriate will then certify you as Severely Sight Impaired (Blind) or Sight Impaired (Partially Sighted) by completing the form Certificate of Vision Impairment 2003 (CVI) which has now been replaced the form BD8 (1990). The CVI still performs the same function as the BD8.