Birth Certificate required for spounse

[CXTina]

I am an EE applicant and I need to upload a few documents due to my recent marriage. One document is

"Copy of your spouse’s or CLP’s birth certificate;"

My husband is a Chinese citizen and I was wondering what exactly a birth certificate is here. Is it only a document to establish date of birth, and would a foreign passport suffice here?

I searched online and I found https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/spouse.asp, which requires a notarized copy of the medical certificate of birth issued by the ministry of health of the People’s Republic of China. But it seems to be a checklist for citizenship application and my husband is not even applying for PR here. Another webpage https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/operational-bulletins-manuals/identity-management/date/documents.html indicates that the foreign passport is the primary document to be used to establish a date of birth record for IRCC purposes for a PR applicant.

 

[Taran D]

I am an EE applicant and I need to upload a few documents due to my recent marriage. One document is

"Copy of your spouse’s or CLP’s birth certificate;"

My husband is a Chinese citizen and I was wondering what exactly a birth certificate is here. Is it only a document to establish date of birth, and would a foreign passport suffice here?

I searched online and I found https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/spouse.asp, which requires a notarized copy of the medical certificate of birth issued by the ministry of health of the People’s Republic of China. But it seems to be a checklist for citizenship application and my husband is not even applying for PR here. Another webpage https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/operational-bulletins-manuals/identity-management/date/documents.html indicates that the foreign passport is the primary document to be used to establish a date of birth record for IRCC purposes for a PR applicant.

Don't know about your country but in my country a child's birth is registered in the council. That is considered a birth certificate document basically as you mentioned above. The spouse's docs are important as they are your immediate family, doesn't matter he is applying for PR at this stage or not but one day eventually they will join you.