British Columbia, Canadian Birth Certificate! help!

[Freckles21 1]

Hi everyone! I just have a quick question about Canadian Birth Certificates. I'm ordering my birth certificate through the Vital Statistics Agency website and there are two options.

 

1) Birth certificate with Parental information

2) Certified photocopy of birth certificate (also has parental information on certificate)

 

 of course no measurements are noted on their website, I called vital and spoke to an agent about these "large sized certificate" the NVC wants us to submit but the agent had no clue what I was talking about haha. Any Canadian filers have this problem? which one did you guys choose? and was it the correct one we need?

 

Thanks!

[JacobP 185]

Both of those are fine as far as I know, but my fiance ordered both of those just in case. She hasn't interviewed yet, but from other Canadian filers I've heard from, the 1st one is usually what the US likes to see, but they'll usually take the 2nd one too, assuming you're talking about the "copy of certified birth record". The 2nd one is a literal photocopy of the form your parents probably filled out when you were born, which can be pretty amusing to see. The first one will look like this

 

 

Edited April 15, 2020 by JacobP

[millefleur 5,043]

**Moved from NVC Discussion to Canada subforum; question is country specific**

[Freckles21 1]

That’s actually a good idea just to get both. I was looking through the travel.state.gov website and it showed this picture. That’s why I was a little confused. The picture you posted looks exactly like the one they put an X on? I’m not sure if they’re just referring to the length of the paper because I didn’t see much of a difference. 

[JacobP 185]

20 minutes ago, Freckles21 said:

That’s actually a good idea just to get both. I was looking through the travel.state.gov website and it showed this picture. That’s why I was a little confused. The picture you posted looks exactly like the one they put an X on? I’m not sure if they’re just referring to the length of the paper because I didn’t see much of a difference.

That's really odd, I've never seen that image before. Can you link to that page? Because from what we could tell, BC only ever offers 3 types of birth certificates, and one of them is *definitely* not acceptable, and they're pretty standardized across Canada these days.

[JacobP 185]

It seems like you might've got it off this page:https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-8-scan-collected-documents.html . It's really misleading because they decided to use 2 completely different sets of images, but they make no mention on specific birth certificates to use. I think they were using it as an example of one image being blurry. I don't know what the implication with labeling the right one "original language" is or why they used the short-form or the long-form. Going off this site:https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/Canada.html Long forms and copy of the birth records are sufficient, particularly since they have your parents name, though the site links are dead. This post from a few years ago seemed to confirm it for me:

If anyone who's interviewed at Montreal recently could clear this up, though, that'd be great. We're kind of stuck waiting for COVID to die down before we can interview so I'm just going off what I researched before.

Edited April 15, 2020 by JacobP

[Freckles21 1]

2 minutes ago, JacobP said:

It seems like you might've got it off this page:https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/the-immigrant-visa-process/step-8-scan-collected-documents.html . It's really misleading because they decided to use 2 completely different sets of images, but they make no mention on specific birth certificates to use. I think they were using it as an example of one image being blurry. I don't know what the implication with labeling the right one "original language" is or why they used the short-form or the long-form. Going off this site:https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/Canada.html Long forms and copy of the birth records are sufficient, particularly since they have your parents name, though the site links are dead. This post from a few years ago seemed to confirm it for me:

If anyone who's interviewed at Montreal recently could clear this up, though, that'd be great. We're kind of stuck waiting for COVID to die down before we can interview so I'm just going off what I researched before.

Yeah that’s exactly where I got it from! It’s very misleading that’s why I was really confused I’ll probably just get both. Which one did your fiance send to the NVC? The regular or certified version? 
 

Hopefully they’ll open the consulate soon so they can start rescheduling peoples interviews. Everything is going to be delayed. Good luck to you and your fiancée!

[JacobP 185]

9 minutes ago, Freckles21 said:

Yeah that’s exactly where I got it from! It’s very misleading that’s why I was really confused I’ll probably just get both. Which one did your fiance send to the NVC? The regular or certified version? 
 

Hopefully they’ll open the consulate soon so they can start rescheduling peoples interviews. Everything is going to be delayed. Good luck to you and your fiancée!

Thanks! The NVC doesn't ask for documents for K-1s, and going by your timeline I believe you're filing for a K-1 too? I think CR-1/IR-1 filers do have to send documents to the NVC in advance. We weren't asked for any documents until it reached the embassy, and the embassy asked for a color scan of her passport, a confirmation for finishing the DS-160 (which you probably shouldn't fill out until the embassy process your paperwork), and a signed/checked-marked scan of packet 3 (which they usually email you, but the link is here if you'd like to look at it: https://ca.usembassy.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Packet3Instructions-K1.pdf). No other documents, not even birth certificates. They check those once you're at the embassy.

Edited April 15, 2020 by JacobP

[Freckles21 1]

12 minutes ago, JacobP said:

Thanks! The NVC doesn't ask for documents for K-1s, and going by your timeline I believe you're filing for a K-1 too? I think CR-1/IR-1 filers do have to send documents to the NVC in advance. We weren't asked for any documents until it reached the embassy, and the embassy asked for a color scan of her passport, a confirmation for finishing the DS-160 (which you probably shouldn't fill out until the embassy process your paperwork), and a signed/checked-marked scan of packet 3 (which they usually email you, but the link is here if you'd like to look at it: https://ca.usembassy.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/07/Packet3Instructions-K1.pdf). No other documents, not even birth certificates. They check those once you're at the embassy.

Oh really!? I’m still doing my research,and this whole time I thought we had to send our documents to the NVC. My fiancé and I did file the K1. Our case was just sent to the NVC and waiting on our welcome letter/ case number. 

[Halley 6]

Certified copy should be enough, but I would submit both just in case.

[NikLR 13,227]

Get the birth certificate with parental information.  The $27 one.  You dont  need the $50 certified copy.  The normal certificates works just fine. 

Edited April 17, 2020 by NikLR

[NikLR 13,227]

On 4/15/2020 at 12:54 AM, Freckles21 said:

Oh really!? I’m still doing my research,and this whole time I thought we had to send our documents to the NVC. My fiancé and I did file the K1. Our case was just sent to the NVC and waiting on our welcome letter/ case number. 

Once you get the case number the file is sent to Montreal.  At that point you wait for them to recieve it snd do the ds-160 and send packet 3 via email. The only thing that should be sent to them is the signed checkist and ds-160 confirmation.  Everything else is brought to interview which you will book yourself after getting packet 4. 

[Freckles21 1]

1 hour ago, NikLR said:

Once you get the case number the file is sent to Montreal.  At that point you wait for them to recieve it snd do the ds-160 and send packet 3 via email. The only thing that should be sent to them is the signed checkist and ds-160 confirmation.  Everything else is brought to interview which you will book yourself after getting packet 4. 

Okay perfect, thank you!