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Birth certificate.. Pls help
- Thread starter at14
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It depends how you explain (and convince) this difference to INS (or attorney). For my case, there were difference too. I am from India. I was born in a town with name "X" municipality (my birth certificate issue by them). Then after 1982 that municipality was splitted into two different municipalities. So my new municipality name became "Y". Without realizing the future impact, when I applied for passport I wrote "Y" as my birth place (for the convenience of police varification). So my passport and DOB certificate have difference place names. If your case is like that I don't think it will be very difficult to convince (or a rural area under gram-panchayet developed and became a municipality). But I have no idea about other kind of differences (probably it does not matter to INS, they just want a certificate. But I am not sure).
Hi,
I can understand a municipality getting split into two different municipalities for administrative reasons. But I fail to understand how the name of a place of birth could change. Unless ofcourse, they have changed it too like Bombay to Mumbai and Calcutta to Kulkata etc. If that is the case, it should not pose a problem. Otherwise you have to work on correcting it.
I may be wrong. These days anything is possible.
Regards,
I can understand a municipality getting split into two different municipalities for administrative reasons. But I fail to understand how the name of a place of birth could change. Unless ofcourse, they have changed it too like Bombay to Mumbai and Calcutta to Kulkata etc. If that is the case, it should not pose a problem. Otherwise you have to work on correcting it.
I may be wrong. These days anything is possible.
Regards,
Originally posted by sachdev
Hi,
But I fail to understand how the name of a place of birth could change. Regards,
Well, the word "place of birth" is very relative term, because normally we tend to put some "officially recongnizable" entity (place). It's like one American who was born in Manhattan can mention his birth place is "NYC". Now after 50 years if the Manhattan becomes an independent city, probably it's appropriate for him to mention "Manhattan" as birth place. But while applying for passport probably it's good idea to stick to "NYC" as birth place (whatever written in his DOB certificate), but in India sometimes we do not think about all these stuffs (atleast I did not).
Originally posted by at14
Thanks for all the replies.
Actually in my birth certificate, the birth place is the village name, followed by the district name.
But in the passport it is the same district name, followed by the state name.
Will this be a problem?
Should not. As both contains district name. That's good enough. I would say it's not a difference at all.
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atlantabhopali
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Originally posted by at14
Thanks for all the replies.
Actually in my birth certificate, the birth place is the village name, followed by the district name.
But in the passport it is the same district name, followed by the state name.
Will this be a problem?
It would be very hard to fix it on passport but fixing it on BC is easy if you know a few folks around your village...
Logically, u should be fine with what u have but u never know with INS.. If I were you, I would rather get the BC fixed than take a chance.. Not worth getting an RFE for..
Just my 2 cents worth on it...
-ab