Birth Certificate- Unavailable

[rahras76]

Canadian passport: Indian passport, 10 class mark sheet .

They never looked for birth certificate

 

[not2cleverRed]

Delhi Govt Portal.

Additional copies of the Birth & Death certificate are also issued @ Rs.5/- per copy and on payment of Rs.2/- for search of the single entry in current year and Rs.2/- for every additional year for which the search is made. The certificates are issued from the registration centres/Zonal Offices of the local bodies.

This sounds similar to the process I am familiar with in the US: I have not needed to go to the office in person to obtain a duplicate copy of a birth certificate, but have sent the clerk an application for a copy with payment included, plus a stamped and self-addressed envelope.

If your birth was never registered, then that is a different process, and you would do well to have a lawyer in India deal with that.

Traditionally, there have been alternatives, and allowances for the fact that you can't get copies of nonexistent documents. However, you were born in India, not Syria, so the USCIS official felt it is reasonable to expect that you can obtain a certified copy.

You may want to contact your spouse's congressperson. I found mine very helpful in dealing with a USCIS filing error.
You could also contact an immigration lawyer.

P.S. Search Quora.

 

[Zigner]

And the only way to get a Canadian passport is by being a Canadian citizen and the only way to become a Canadian citizen is by getting a Citizenship certificate and the only way to get one of those is by showing them your birth certificate.
This is now going in circles.

Not sure that I agree. Once doesn't have to have a birth certificate in order to become a Canadian citizen. The passport from another country can suffice.

 

[xylene]

You need to get a lawyer involved, as your case is far beyond DIY.

 

[xylene]

What you will need is an NABC (non-availabilty of birth certificate) petition.

This is not a DIY project even normally, and with an immigration system posture set to "actively hostile to foreigners/immigrants" is is doubly so.

 

[t74]

You can get your birth certificate. It may be inconvenient or expensive, but that is not a concern of the US. If you wart to apply,, follow the rules and supply what is required of others. You are neither being mistreated not special.

 

[NeilTheCop]

Not sure that I agree. Once doesn't have to have a birth certificate in order to become a Canadian citizen. The passport from another country can suffice.

Which would likely require a birth certificate before getting that passport.
I had to show my birth certificate when I got a British passport, the same when they joined the EU and we all had to get EU passports and the same when I got my US passport.
It's just odd that the poster, who is a foreign born person managed to get Canadian citizenship, which is the only way to get a Canadian passport. And he did it without ever showing a birth certificate or an official document of some sort from the Indian government.

 

[not2cleverRed]

Which would likely require a birth certificate before getting that passport.
I had to show my birth certificate when I got a British passport, the same when they joined the EU and we all had to get EU passports and the same when I got my US passport.
It's just odd that the poster, who is a foreign born person managed to get Canadian citizenship, which is the only way to get a Canadian passport. And he did it without ever showing a birth certificate or an official document of some sort from the Indian government.

Apparently if your parents never registered your birth, there are substitutes... But those substitutes are also the basis for getting a birth certificate of record, so it would seem worth clearing up before leaving the country... So OP should have just done it before becoming a globetrotter.