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What is the difference between a Certificate of Live Birth and a Birth Certificate?
All my life I used a Certificate of Live Birth for all Identification, Yet, when I applied for a Passport I was denied because I was told I needed a Birth Certificate which I never knew was different than a Certificate of Live Birth. A Certificate of live birth means only that You were alive and breathing at the time You were examined by a Doctor or some other entity, it does not prove where You were born. To prove where I was born, I had to go back to the City and County Where I was born and get a Birth Certificate issued from the County which showed my Mother and Fathers' names, where they worked, and the Address they lived at. Even though I am of advanced age there are still people alive that remember where and to whom I was born. My question is if a High Dignitary can get by with waving a Certificate of Live Birth in Your Face as to where He or She was born, why, as an honest upstanding member of the Community can't I.? Check it out, for Your own benefit.
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- JudithLv 77 years ago
The title. That's all. In Michigan it's called a Registration of Birth. It's called whatever a state wants to call it. Everyone receives a short version of the birth certificate on file at a state's vital records office. Very seldom is the long-form version required. When you apply for a visa/passport you must present a certified copy of the long-form birth certificate.
The short form usually only shows name at birth, date and city and state of birth and the names of the parents.
The long form shows much more information e.g, length and weight of baby, name of hospital of birth, doctor's name, state where parents were born, etc. When you make your request for the long form you normally have to show the reason why you need it - plus it usually costs more.
ALL certified copies, whether short-form or long-form, have raised, embossed seals on them.
- SarahLv 77 years ago
They are the same thing. The only difference is that, in some cases, certificates of live birth are more like souvenirs than official documents. If your certificate of live birth has a raised embossed seal and a signature and your offical name is noted, it's the same thing as a birth certificate.
