Birth Certificate requirements
Srihar said:
If the BC has been issued by any local authority like corporation,panchayat or village officer then it will be still valid. But I think if that has been issued by some maternity hospital, it may not valid. Still it may be valid if that certificate is from some Government Hospital(You can check this with some one in India). If it says "Department of Birth & Death Registration", I hope it should be some government office certificate. So you will be ok.
I had the following information in my mailbox w.r.t. birth certificate. Thought I will share with the group.
DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS
Birth Certificate
(TL:VISA-174; 01-12-1998)
Available. Prior to 1970, reporting of births was voluntary. Birth
certificates of Europeans, Anglo-Indians, Armenian Christians, Jews and
Parsis born prior to 1970 may be obtained from the State Registrar General
of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. No standard or uniform certificate is
issued by the several authorities. In addition, acceptable certificates can
often be obtained from the municipal and rural registration records which
are maintained under the state laws. Europeans, Anglo-Indians, and Indian
Christians are usually able to obtain church baptismal certificates.
Under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act of 1969, births are
required to be registered in almost all of the States and Union Territories
of India. Birth certificates are available to any applicant born on or
after April 1, 1970, upon payment of a nominal fee to the appropriate
authority.
In cases where birth certificates from the authorities are unavailable or
contain insufficient information regarding the birth or the parents, a
sworn affidavit executed by either the parents, if living, or other close
relatives older than the applicant, may be submitted. It should set forth
the relationship between the deponent and the applicant, how well the
deponent knows the applicant, date and place of the applicant's birth, the
names of both parents, and any other related facts. Such affidavit, when a
birth certificate is unavailable, should be accompanied by a document from
a competent governmental authority confirming that the certificate does not
exist, or no longer exists.
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