K1 Interview...Original Birth Certificate?

[aviator99 51]

Hello,

 

Question: For the interview, it states that the beneficiary must bring the -original- birth certificate. My fiance is from the Philippines but has status in Canada (work visa; she is not a PR or Citizen of Canada). Her family in the Philippines does not have her original birth certificate.

 

But, her mother went to the Civil Registrar General Philippine Statistics Authority and requested it from the government office. They gave her a copy of the birth certificate from their files; it is NOT notarized, but was printed on special color-fibre paper, has a signature of the representative who pulled the file and her name. Also has a barcode on there for tracking purposes and says "BEST POSSIBLE IMAGE: PAGE 1 OF 1 COPY"

 

Will this be okay for the interview? Because it says "PAGE 1 OF 1 COPY", doesn't say Original -- but it is an actual copy of the original document (which was lost). I mean, they just dont have the original one from the 1980's... am I just overthinking this?

 

Thanks all!

 

[bellashay 14]

I don't think the PSA/ NSO birth certificate has to be notarized. The one she has right now should work

Edited January 15, 2018 by bellashay

[Redheadguy03 505]

It's supposed to be a psa/nso birth certificate. It's not notarized, but it's got a seal and writing. You generally get it from the local office in the province you were born. 

[aviator99 51]

Thanks for all the responses!

3 hours ago, Dee elle said:

By original, they mean one that is issued by the authority who registers and hold the records... so it sounds like you should be fine 

That's kind of what I thought as well but just wanted to confirm...it'd be kind of strange if they MUST have the one from the actual date of the birth.

 

3 hours ago, bellashay said:

I don't think the PSA/ NSO birth certificate has to be notarized. The one she has right now should work

thank you!

3 hours ago, Redheadguy03 said:

It's supposed to be a psa/nso birth certificate. It's not notarized, but it's got a seal and writing. You generally get it from the local office in the province you were born. 

Yup I think that's the one. It's on a faded yellow/red paper (half left page yellow, half right page red) with pieces of fiber in the paper, has the PSA security seal in the top left and says PSA in the center. Her mom also sent me the receipt for it (had to pay to get it from the PSA) and it was purchased from "Republic of the Philippines Philippine Statistics Authority"...for what she bought: "Copy Issuance - Birth Certificate". It was $140.00 Philippine Pesos. 

 

As far as writing, the birth certificate itself was all hand written back from the 80's. Nobody wrote anything new on this form itself it appears. Do you think this is all okay/sounds right?

[KristineGB 56]

On 1/15/2018 at 7:48 PM, aviator99 said:

Thanks for all the responses!

That's kind of what I thought as well but just wanted to confirm...it'd be kind of strange if they MUST have the one from the actual date of the birth.

 

thank you!

Yup I think that's the one. It's on a faded yellow/red paper (half left page yellow, half right page red) with pieces of fiber in the paper, has the PSA security seal in the top left and says PSA in the center. Her mom also sent me the receipt for it (had to pay to get it from the PSA) and it was purchased from "Republic of the Philippines Philippine Statistics Authority"...for what she bought: "Copy Issuance - Birth Certificate". It was $140.00 Philippine Pesos. 

 

As far as writing, the birth certificate itself was all hand written back from the 80's. Nobody wrote anything new on this form itself it appears. Do you think this is all okay/sounds right?

Red? Mine is more orangey. But I did get it from the PSA. 

[wingman23 140]

NSO birth certificate should work. 

 

i have my original bc from the 70s, not hand written though.  it's in a short paper unlike the long sheet nowadays.