How to Get Wisconsin Immunization Records Online in 2026

What Is the Wisconsin Immunization Registry?

The Wisconsin Immunization Registry, or WIR, is an online database that tracks vaccine records for Wisconsin children and adults. Wisconsin DHS says WIR helps people get old vaccine records, gives direct access to vaccine records, and allows people to print records when needed for child care, school, university, or work.

WIR is especially useful because many Wisconsin residents receive vaccines from more than one provider. A child may have doses from a pediatrician, a school clinic, and a local health department. An adult may have vaccines from a doctor, employer clinic, pharmacy, travel clinic, hospital system, or another state.

How To Get Wisconsin Immunization Records Online

Follow this order. It starts with the official WIR public access tool, then gives backup routes for records that are missing, locked, incomplete, or stored outside Wisconsin.

1. Open the Wisconsin DHS WIR page first. Read the state’s WIR instructions and choose the public access link in the language you prefer.
2. Go to the WIR Public Immunization Record Access screen. The English search screen is the fastest route for most residents who have the required identifying information.
3. Enter first name, last name, and date of birth. Use the legal spelling that the doctor, clinic, pharmacy, school, or local health department likely used.
4. Enter one required ID number. Wisconsin DHS says WIR public search needs either Social Security number, Medicaid identification number, or health care member identification number.
5. Select Search and review the result. If one matching record is found, WIR shows the vaccine record and recommended vaccines. If no record appears, check for spelling, ID number, date of birth, or missing data problems.
6. Print a copy for school, child care, university, camp, or work. Wisconsin DHS says the record can be printed as proof for these uses.
7. Use backup routes if WIR cannot find it. Call the doctor’s office, pharmacy, local health department, school, previous state registry, or WIR help desk.

What Information Do You Need for WIR Public Access?

The WIR public access search screen requires first name, last name, and date of birth. It also asks for either Social Security number, Medicaid ID, or health care member ID. Without one of those numbers, the public search may not be able to match the record.

How To Print or Download Wisconsin Vaccine Records

After WIR finds a matching record, Wisconsin DHS says the search results show the vaccine record and list recommended vaccines. WIR also allows users to select Print if they want a hard copy. A printed WIR record may be used as proof of vaccines for child care, school, university, camp, or work purposes.

For a clean digital copy, use your browser’s print option and choose “Save as PDF” if your phone or computer supports it. Name the file clearly, such as “Wisconsin-Immunization-Record-2026.pdf,” and store it somewhere you can find again.

Wisconsin School and Child Care Immunization Records

Wisconsin DHS has a school immunization requirements page with materials for schools, parents, child care centers, and administrators. The page includes the Student Immunization Record, F-04020L, school requirement guidance, child care immunization information, waiver information, and report tools.

Parents can often access a child’s immunization record from the child’s doctor or through WIR. For child care, Wisconsin DHS says child care centers should require parents to keep immunization records up to date and references the Child Care Immunization Record, F-44192.

Wisconsin Student Immunization Record Form F-04020L

The Wisconsin Student Immunization Record, Long, is form F-04020L. Wisconsin DHS lists this form as a PDF and provides it in multiple languages including English, Spanish, Hmong, Arabic, Chinese, French, Hindi, Punjabi, Somali, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and more.

Do not confuse a school form with the WIR public access printout. WIR may show and print a vaccine history, while a school may ask for a specific DHS student form or school-submitted record. When in doubt, ask the school nurse, school office, or district health services department which document they want.

Wisconsin Adult Immunization Records for Work, College, Travel and Personal Files

Adults often need vaccine records for healthcare jobs, nursing programs, college, travel clinics, immigration exams, military paperwork, caregiver work, or personal medical history. WIR is a good first stop if your vaccines were recorded in Wisconsin, but it may not contain every dose from every provider, pharmacy, federal clinic, or out-of-state location.

Wisconsin Pharmacy Vaccine Records: Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, Costco, Pick ’n Save and Local Pharmacies

Many Wisconsin adults received COVID-19, flu, RSV, shingles, pneumonia, hepatitis, Tdap, or travel vaccines at a pharmacy. If the pharmacy reported and matched the vaccine correctly, it may appear in WIR. But the fastest backup is usually the pharmacy account or the pharmacy location where the shot was given.

Use the same name, date of birth, phone number, email, and insurance card information you used at the vaccine appointment. A changed phone number, old email, different last name, or wrong birth date can make a pharmacy record hard to find.

Why WIR May Not Find Your Wisconsin Immunization Record

WIR’s public access help explains several reasons a record search may fail. The immunization may not have been recorded in WIR. The record may exist but not have the Social Security number or Medicaid ID stored. The name, date of birth, SSN, or Medicaid ID may be stored incorrectly. Duplicate records may also exist.

Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Waukesha, Kenosha and Local Wisconsin Help

WIR is statewide, but many people still search by city or county because they remember where the vaccine was given. If WIR cannot find your record, think locally: doctor’s office, pharmacy, school district, university health center, county health department, or city health department.

Sending Wisconsin Immunization Records to a Third Party

If you need your WIR record sent to a third party, Wisconsin DHS says to complete the Wisconsin Immunization Registry Record Release Authorization, F-02487. DHS also notes this form can be used if a person, parent, or guardian locked a record in the past and needs it unlocked for access.

This matters for people who need records sent to a school, employer, university, attorney, program administrator, licensing office, or another healthcare provider. Do not email sensitive vaccine records to random addresses unless the receiving organization confirms a secure submission method.

Titer Tests When Wisconsin Vaccine Records Are Lost

A titer is a blood test that may show immunity to some diseases. Titers can help adults when childhood records are missing, especially for healthcare jobs, nursing school, medical training, or college programs. But the organization asking for proof decides whether titers are accepted.

Out-of-State, Military, VA and International Vaccine Records

If you moved to Wisconsin from another state, WIR may not automatically contain your older vaccine history. Use the CDC IIS contact directory to find the registry in the state where the vaccine was actually administered, then give that record to your Wisconsin school, provider, employer, or college as needed.

If you were vaccinated through the military, VA, a federal clinic, tribal health service, or outside the United States, your record may be in a separate system. Check your military or VA portal, previous provider, travel clinic, immigration paperwork, or foreign vaccine booklet before repeating vaccines.

Official Wisconsin Immunization Record Links

Use official sources first. This page is an independent guide for Wisconsin residents and is not Wisconsin DHS, WIR, CDC, a school district, a pharmacy, a healthcare provider, or a local health department.

Wisconsin Immunization Records FAQs