Suresh Kumar Babu (Software Prefoessional) 17 May 2015

Legalization of birth certificate

This is regarding legalization of my Chennai birth certificate (ORIGINAL AND NOT OLDER THAN 6 MONTHS) for the use of it in Switzerland. Below are the steps we have been asked to follow:

Re-issuance of new Birth Certificate
Legalization:

1.ATTESTATION by Deputy Secretary Home, State Government

2.APOSTILLE by Ministry of External Affairs

3.ATTESTATION by Swiss Embassy in India

Our Concerns regarding Birth Certificate issued by Chennai Corporation:

1) Chennai Corporation only issues ONLINE birth certificates and this should be considered as ORIGINAL as per norm. And obviously this birth certificate will have Computer Printed Seal & Signature of Public Health Department.

They give a PDF to print out the online certificate that states that "The certificate is computer generated and does not require any seal/signature. This certificate can be verified at www.chennaicorporation.gov.in"

Can the Computer Printed Seal & Signature of Public Health Department create a difficulty when we submit the birth certificate for authorization to Swiss Embassy in India?

2) Any certificate (Educational or Personal) issued by State Government of Tamil Nadu will have the name printed in the pattern: INITIAL (FATHER'S NAME), GIVEN NAME

For example in Birth Certificate:

Name of Child: B SURESH KUMAR

Name of Father: L BABU

So here the initial B (of child’s name) can be easily matched with father’s name Babu and Suresh Kumar is the given name.

However on the passport, which is issued by the Central Government of India, always the initial is expanded and written in full as Surname (Example: SURESH KUMAR BABU).

Can the USE OF INITIALS IN NAME create a difficulty when we submit the birth certificate for authorization to Swiss Embassy in India?

Thanks In Advance For Your Advise

Suresh Babu

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bsrao 17 May 2015

Swiss Embassy in India must have dealt with such cases earlier. You need not have any apprehensions. Please go ahead and in case there is a query, you can always explain. You can do nothing at this juncture.

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T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Advocate) 18 May 2015

The online birth certificate without signature is valid for the reasons mentioned in it itself. Especially the woridngs in it such as ""The certificate is computer generated and does not require any seal/signature. This certificate can be verified at www.chennaicorporation.gov.in" speaks for itself for any clarification, only some stupid and adament officer sitting in the immigration cournter will be creating problem which also can be handled by escalating the matter to the higher officer of the same department available therein and convince them.

The expansion of initials also should not have any problem because the father's ame while obtaining the passport also had a similar expansion, which is sufficient to convince the authorities.

In the given situation, no doubt you want to be cautious about all the situations that may arise, but in this regard, your fears are unnecessary, you can very well proceed with the certificate in your hand.