Birth Certificate

[Flames9_RN 358]

What province were you born in???

[Sweetcheeksss 91]

SWEET -- That's not fair. =(

Must be then, because either online or on phone they wanted the persons information.

Ontario stuff is all kinds of messed up.

Congrats on the expedite - must be nice not to have to wait like the rest of us.

Truthfully FireKari, if it meant my hubby would never have to deploy to a country where he could potentially lose his life, I'd gladly wait in line like the majority of others do.

[LiLMermaid 2]

As far as I'm concerned anybody willing to sign up to possibly die for their country deserves whatever special treatment we can give them. I think letting them marry and spend some time with the ones they love before being shipped off is the least their country can do for them.

I do believe that the poster you replied to was being sincere and just meant you congrats. This whole process is a PAIN in the A$$. It was two weeks short of a year between our file date and my POE. Montreal's slowness has tried all our patience I'm sure.

[Married2009 32]

As far as I'm concerned anybody willing to sign up to possibly die for their country deserves whatever special treatment we can give them. I think letting them marry and spend some time with the ones they love before being shipped off is the least their country can do for them.

I do believe that the poster you replied to was being sincere and just meant you congrats. This whole process is a PAIN in the A$$. It was two weeks short of a year between our file date and my POE. Montreal's slowness has tried all our patience I'm sure.

I agree with both sentiments.

[FireKari 4]

Just meant it as a congrats since this process sucks.

My husband has been deployed before a few times and THANKFULLY his 'reserve' time is done.

But it also means we cannot be expedited becuase he isn't active anymore.

[Tater&Bugger 3]

You can get a long form and short form of a birth certificate in Canada. The "short form" is the wallet sized one, with just your name, place & date of birth. You were probably able to use that for your passport and most things up to this point in life.

The "long form" has all the same info, but also lists your birth parents. From my understanding, this is the form we need for the embassy interview and AOS. But, if you are sending your AOS forms in, you have probably gotten past the point of an interview (assuming you are going either K-1 or CR-1 marriage route), and have not been asked for the "long form", so maybe the short form will be sufficient.

You can order both forms online, at least in Nova Scotia. Try googling "birth certificate nova scotia/ontario/whatever your province is" and it should easily come up with the website for ordering it. The long form costs $35 CAD in NS and takes about 10 business days to arrive in the mail.

I hope this helps!

good luck!

I have the short form and applied for the long form back in May and am still waiting for it... they must be behind schedule because last time I ordered my wallet sized one when my wallet was lost it only took 3 weeks.

... oops forgot to add, I'm speaking about Ontario.

Edited July 20, 2010 by Tater&Bugger

[LiLMermaid 2]

I have the short form and applied for the long form back in May and am still waiting for it... they must be behind schedule because last time I ordered my wallet sized one when my wallet was lost it only took 3 weeks.

... oops forgot to add, I'm speaking about Ontario.

Hmmm...thats a long time. I ordered mine online and they have a 15 business day guarantee. I had it in less time then that.

[Tater&Bugger 3]

Hmmm...thats a long time. I ordered mine online and they have a 15 business day guarantee. I had it in less time then that.

Like always with the government of Canada, I got a letter asking me to reconfirm my mothers maiden name because her parents had a divorce before she was born and her 'father' adopted her when he married her mom, so for some reason when I put her name at birth it always asks me to re-write it and send it back in. I don't know why they always make me say it twice... can't they just check? That was early June. I'll call them this week because I should have it by now.

... and I don't know why they need to make sure it's me because I have the wallet sized one already!

Edited July 21, 2010 by Tater&Bugger

[Inky 1,110]

Like always with the government of Canada, I got a letter asking me to reconfirm my mothers maiden name because her parents had a divorce before she was born and her 'father' adopted her when he married her mom, so for some reason when I put her name at birth it always asks me to re-write it and send it back in. I don't know why they always make me say it twice... can't they just check? That was early June. I'll call them this week because I should have it by now.

... and I don't know why they need to make sure it's me because I have the wallet sized one already!

same type of thing happend to me too. Took forEVER to get the freakin birth cert. Got to a point where I called daily asking if they finished processing it yet because I knew they had the information they needed and had called me to confirm it. They FINALLY released it after 4 months and my calling everyday for a week.

[LiLMermaid 2]

Like always with the government of Canada, I got a letter asking me to reconfirm my mothers maiden name because her parents had a divorce before she was born and her 'father' adopted her when he married her mom, so for some reason when I put her name at birth it always asks me to re-write it and send it back in. I don't know why they always make me say it twice... can't they just check? That was early June. I'll call them this week because I should have it by now.

... and I don't know why they need to make sure it's me because I have the wallet sized one already!

Ahh...they do mention in the fine print that if they require more info then of course the guarantee is void. lol Typical

[Tater&Bugger 3]

FML...

[Tater&Bugger 3]

Ironic enough I was looking up the info to call them and they called me! I should have it next week... alright fist pump.