Birth Certificate requirement
Hi
Sorry to hear about your RFE. Indian consulate Birth certificates are not enough for INS, as the consulates issue birth certificate based on what is in your passport. All birth\'s in India after 1969 or later should technically be registered in the hospitals. In that case they need the birth certificate from the your birth place\'s ( town/municipality/metro ) registrar of birth & death. Actually, Government of India has set aside a nice birth certificate form for the same purpose( it lists all details in both the local language and English ). Look such a nice thing exists, but we come to know of it only when we need it. Also if you need to get that, it takes quite an effort ( both monetarily & running around courts and municipal offices. Unfortunately I took this route. Had I taken the other routes, I might probably have got my GC by now, GOD willing. ). If you have right connections at high places ( sorry to say that, but that is the plain truth ), you could probably get it faster.
The second option for you is to get the affidavit of birth sworn by your parents ( if parents are not alive then sworn by nearest relatives ) and endorsed by judicial magistrate ( technically this is the correct level of official INS expects endorsement from. But many people even get it endorsed by a lawyer and make a nice Judicial magistrate rubber stamp with his name and use it ). Also for this you need to get a \'Non-availability of Birth records\' from your local muunicipality/metro ( This is relatively easier ).
Hope this helps.
Tamizhan