Certified Birth Certificate

The following are NOT accepted birth certificates:

Photocopies of any kind, including notarized copies
Hospital birth certificates or birth records
Army discharge papers
Voter registration cards
Social Security Cards or numbers
Birth abstracts "short forms" from California or Texas (only long-form birth certificates are accepted)

Acceptable birth certificates must:

Be issued by the city, county or state
Include your given name and surname
Have a registrar's raised, embossed, impressed or multicolored seal
Have a registrar's signature and the date the certificate was filed with the registrar's office, which must be within 1 year of your birth
Birth certificate must list parents full names and dates of birth

Where can I obtain a certified birth certificate?

VitalChek Express Certificate Service provide government authorized online ordering. You can use your credit card to order government certified birth certificates from America's only nationwide authorized service.

To order your birth certificate click on your state of birth:

Alabama	Louisiana	North Dakota
Alaska	Maine	Ohio
Arizona	Maryland	Oklahoma
Arkansas	Massachusetts	Oregon
California	Michigan	Pennsylvania
Colorado	Minnesota	Rhode Island
Connecticut	Mississippi	South Carolina
Delaware	Missouri	South Dakota
Florida	Montana	Tennessee
Georgia	Nebraska	Texas
Hawaii	Nevada	Utah
Idaho	New Hampshire	Vermont
Illinois	New Jersey	Virginia
Indiana	New Mexico	Washington
Iowa	New York	West Virginia
Kansas	New York City	Wisconsin
Kentucky	North Carolina	Wyoming

Washington, D.C.

NOTES:

Applicants born in California or Texas MUST submit a Long-Form Birth Certificate; short forms or abstract birth certificates are UNACCEPTABLE

A Delayed Birth Certificate filed more than one year after your birth may be acceptable if it:

Listed the documentation used to create it and
Signed by the attending physician or midwife, or, lists an affidavit signed by the parents, or shows early public records.

We have new information on foreign-born children adopted by U.S. citizens.

What to do if there is no Birth Record or Certificate on file

1. Submit a "Letter of No Record"
Issued by the State with your name, date of birth, which years were searched for a birth record and that there is no birth certificate on file for you.

2. AND as many of the following as possible:

baptismal certificate
hospital birth certificate
census record
certificate of circumcision
early school record
family bible record
doctor's record of post-natal care

NOTES:

These documents must be early public records showing the date and place of birth, preferably created within the first five years of your life
You may also submit an Affidavit of Birth, form DSP-10A, from an older blood relative, i.e., a parent, aunt, uncle, sibling, who has personal knowledge of your birth. It must be notarized or have the seal and signature of the acceptance agent.