My Birth certificate does not carry my name or my name is not there on the birth certificate or my name is missing on my birth certificate or instead of my name baby boy or girl is written.
If you are applying for a visa at UK, US Embassy or applying for Canada immigration or visa for any country and have any of the above queries then you can be relaxed as you are not at fault and this is not a big issue which only you are facing. Most of the Indian birth certificate, I can say almost 30% of the birth certificate issued before year 2000 does not carry child name in birth certificate, and this can be because of several reasons out of which main is our ritual “Naamkaran” which only allows to have child name after some days but birth certificate is already applied or issued by hospital or parents.
Though now a day’s parents are more and more aware of this issue and they make sure child name is printed on birth certificate because now a day’s use of birth certificate has increased significantly and it is being used for most of the applications like while applying for Passport, School registration, Visa, etc. But if we talk about late 80’s and 90’s, parents were less aware of importance of birth certificate and that is why issues of child name missing, father/mother name missing, wrong spellings, typos can easily be found in the birth certificate issued during this period.
But as I said this is not a reason to be worried about because even embassies are also aware of this issue and they do understand this situation and that is why a secondary evidence is asked as an alternate cum supporting document to birth certificate and this secondary evidence can be any document having your birth date, your name and name of both parents possibly, otherwise of either parents. Most common such documents used as secondary evidence are as follows:
1) Passport
2) Driving License
3) Voters card
4) Pan card
5) Ration Card
6) Hospital Birth record with name of child and both parents mentioned.
7) Medical records
8) School records which name child and both parents. This could be 10th or 12th class mark-sheet, 10th or 12th class certificate, school leaving certificate, degree certificate and matriculation certificate.
In case of submission of any secondary evidence with only your father’s name mentioned, do submit a cover letter mentioning the documents you are submitting and a statement that in your country it is customary to have only father name in these legal documents.
Also, when you are submitting secondary evidence then it becomes important or we can say mandatory to submit two affidavits from or by any two persons who have knowledge of your birth and the events you want to prove. But it becomes necessary to provide some details in the affidavit, regarding the person(s) making affidavit like: his/her full name and address, his/her date and place of birth, his/her relationship to you. Furthermore, he/she should mention the mention all the details related to how they came to know about your birth and if they have attended your birth ceremony etc. Statement should be true and with all the facts related to your birth.
Do I need to translate my regional language Birth certificate to English before submitting it to Embassy in India for Visa Application ?
Yes, if your documents are in any Indian, Foreign language or any other language other than English, you are required to get your documents translated to English.My documents are in bilingual format, all the information are given in both Hindi/Punjabi/Marathi and English, do I still required to get these translated ?
Yes, even though your documents are in bilingual format and all information are already in both the languages but still you require translating these documents to English because embassy accepts documents only in English format with no other language.
