How Did You Get Birth Certificate?

[atkinsonrr]

My wife came to US on a B2 visa, we met and were married about 10 weeks later on February 17 and we are applying for adjustment of status and green card (I-130 and I-485). We have everything ready to submit but her birth certificate. She was born in 1976 and never had a birth certificate. Her brother has gone to the police and to the government for the city of Dazhou in Szechuan Province, the town of her birth. They told him my wife has to request this in person, which is of course not possible. I am concerned my wife's visa will expire before we can get the birth certificate for submission of a complete package into USCIS. Those folks who have been successful getting a birth certificate from China while you were in the US, please tell me how to do this. Any advice is much welcomed. Thank you much.

[Randy W]

Be careful about asking for a "birth certificate". They CAN be issued for people born BEFORE 1993, when Medical Birth Certificates were first issued, but they are more difficult to obtain, and are NOT needed for immigration, since they were not standard issue. They may be expecting her to submit to DNA testing to prove her parentage for the Medical Birth Certificate.

 

What you want INSTEAD is the standard Chinese notarial birth certificate or 出生公证书,, or chu sheng gong zheng shu, which is what you need to ask for at the Gong Zheng Chu, or公证处 ֤֤֤֤.

This is the official Chinese document issued for use overseas.

 

You (or her brother) will need to take her hukou showing her parents to the Gong Zheng Chu. If she is still on her parents' hukou. you MAY be able to do this anywhere in China. If not, you may need to go to her hometown PSB where they would still have the records showing her parents.

 

See Chinese Essential Documents - White Books

Edited March 30, 2017 by Randy W
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[atkinsonrr]

Thanks Randy. Much appreciated!