Certified Birth Certificate of Children

[NBA10 0]

Hello,

I will be having my Citizenship interview soon and one of the requirements is to bring the certified copy of children's birth certificate born in US.

I have been to my bank to get it notarized but they said they cannot notarize birth certificates.

Please let me know where can i get these certified ( or do i just need to take original and copy during my interview)

Thanks

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Hello,

I will be having my Citizenship interview soon and one of the requirements is to bring the certified copy of children's birth certificate born in US.

I have been to my bank to get it notarized but they said they cannot notarize birth certificates.

Please let me know where can i get these certified ( or do i just need to take original and copy during my interview)

Thanks

A certified copy would be obtained from the civil registry, or the vital statistics agency where the children were born. If the children were born in the US, that would be from the county recorder's office in the county where the children were born. The birth certificate you have now is probably a certified copy. They want to see that, or one just like it, not a photocopy.

( or do i just need to take original and copy during my interview)

Yes.

Edited February 7, 2012 by ☼

[Heliosphan 1]

Do you need to do this for step-children as well or just biological children?

[NickD 203]

Do you need to do this for step-children as well or just biological children?

With eight kids between my wife and me, the only birth certificate her IO wanted to see was mine as proof I am a US citizen. She already had a copy of it, just wanted to compare that with the original to make sure I didn't change anything. Just saying, only have to send in a copy of that birth certificate, verbatim, but bring the original in.

Could have tossed in my US passport instead, but that is expensive in case it was "misplaced", only five bucks for a certified copy of my birth certificate.

If applying for the three year marriage and have a child from that marriage, a birth certificate of that child only serves as additional evidence that you are indeed married and even living together. If applying for the five year, none of this stuff is needed.

[NBA10 0]

Thanks everyone. I got the certified copies from the Town.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Hello,

I will be having my Citizenship interview soon and one of the requirements is to bring the certified copy of children's birth certificate born in US.

I have been to my bank to get it notarized but they said they cannot notarize birth certificates.

Please let me know where can i get these certified ( or do i just need to take original and copy during my interview)

Thanks

Notarized and certified are not the same. The BC needs to be certified by the issuing authority. A notary is a witness to a signature, nothing else. You do not sign a BC so there is nothing TO notarize. The BC should have a stamp or seal from the issuing authority, if it does not then get a certified copy from the issuing authority, usually the county clerk where the child was born.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Do you need to do this for step-children as well or just biological children?

NO

This refers only to children born in the USA to the immigrant. It does not include the children of the immigrant born abroad OR step children of the immigrant born here.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Do you need to do this for step-children as well or just biological children?

For example I have two children (not Alla's) born in the USA

Alla has two children born in Ukraine

We brought NO child birth certificates to the interview. No questions asked. They did ask IF we had any children born to us in the USA. No, we do not.