Certified Birth Certificate
The following are
NOT accepted birth certificates:
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Photocopies of any kind, including
notarized copies
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Hospital birth certificates or
birth records
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Army discharge papers
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Voter registration cards
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Social Security Cards or numbers
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Birth abstracts "short forms" from
California or Texas (only long-form birth certificates are
accepted)
Acceptable birth
certificates must:
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Be issued by the city, county or
state
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Include your given name and
surname
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Have a registrar's raised,
embossed, impressed or multicolored seal
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Have a registrar's signature and
the date the certificate was filed with the registrar's office,
which must be within 1 year of your birth
Where can I obtain
a certified birth certificate?
NOTES:
Applicants born in California or Texas MUST submit a Long-Form Birth Certificate;
short forms or abstract birth certificates are UNACCEPTABLE
A Delayed Birth
Certificate filed more than one year after your birth may be
acceptable if it:
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Listed the documentation used to
create it and
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Signed by the attending physician
or midwife, or, lists an affidavit signed by the parents, or
shows early public records.
We have new information on foreign-born children adopted by U.S.
citizens.
What to do if there
is no Birth Record or Certificate on file
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Submit a
"Letter of No Record"
Issued by the State with your name, date of birth, which
years were searched for a birth record and that there is no
birth certificate on file for you.
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AND as many of
the following as possible:
- baptismal certificate
- hospital birth certificate
- census record
- certificate of circumcision
- early school record
- family bible record
- doctor's record of post-natal care
NOTES:
- These documents must be early public records
showing the date and place of birth, preferably created within
the first five years of your life
- You may also submit an Affidavit of Birth, form DSP-10A, from
an older blood relative, i.e., a parent, aunt, uncle, sibling,
who has personal knowledge of your birth. It must be notarized
or have the seal and signature of the acceptance agent.
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