Lil more info on why BC are getting complicated for us...
Everyone who applies for H1B/visitor visa i guess is required to submit them...parents/grandparents etc and a lot of other countries also insist on this..
so in the last few years more and more ppl apply for the birth certificates/marriage certificate from the Govt.
It the volume as people in the 60,70,80,90, 2000 generation didnt need one then but now everyone is applying for it and a huge backlog.
And what complicates things is that if the applicant was delivered through a mid-wife, the hospital where u were born is not there anymore etc..in this scenario it will go to court where
your parents would need to prove that you were born on this day to them blah blah blah..my wife's parents had 4 hearings and she applied in Aug and got the certificate in Jan 2011 !
I guess CHC ND knows abt this as this is a very very complicated case when your birth is not registered but you still have a PP which has your DOB.
And in India we always refer to the DOB in your high school certificate and not the PP..maybe these days they use the PP DOB but until 2005 it was always ur school certificate.
In fact when i applied for my passport in 2003 i only submitted my +2 certificate which has the DOB.
The whole process is a Mess as they can not deny you a BC when you have a Indian Passport... one more thing which needs a fix is the BC/marriage certificate process.
If you do not have one DO APPLY for one now as i think you will need it in future...OCI etc and u never know when they will make it mandatory as its a new generation now
where everyone has a BC.
