question to belgians about the original birth cartificate

[mathcore 56]

Hi fellow Belgians 

I m coming up with a question about the birth certificate for the interview appointment . I have my immigrant Interview at the Brussels US embassy the 2 january 2020 . As you know , the check list on travel states say that i must bring the original birth certificate with me .

but our dear Belgium does not deliver no originals documents , they even switched last 1st of april 2019 to a full paper-free numerical format for all civil documents which are less than 100 years old 

My question is , for those who already got their interview : are these document from the DABS / BAEC are naccepted in lieu of the original or they are likely to trigger some troubles? 


a big thanks 

[dwheels76 5,459]

**Topic moved to regional forum since this is a country specific question**

[Kamali16 30]

I don't know if I'm too late for this or not. I also needed my birth certificate and I went to city hall for that. They printed it out for me no problem. Tip: you can get an international birth certificate, which will have an english translation on it, it might be useful in the future. They mailed that one to me though, they couldn't give it to me right then and there. 

I applied for a K1-visa, so a different one than yours, and I brought the birth certificate that they gave me in city hall to the embassy interview, and that was no problem at all. 

[mathcore 56]

1 hour ago, Kamali16 said:

I don't know if I'm too late for this or not. I also needed my birth certificate and I went to city hall for that. They printed it out for me no problem. Tip: you can get an international birth certificate, which will have an english translation on it, it might be useful in the future. They mailed that one to me though, they couldn't give it to me right then and there. 

I applied for a K1-visa, so a different one than yours, and I brought the birth certificate that they gave me in city hall to the embassy interview, and that was no problem at all. 

not by that much , i emailed the embassy , they replied this morning . as the electronic version is the only one issued by the government since earlier this year . so the embassy use this electronic version in place of the original. as simply as that 
but thanks ! 

btw , are they cool at the embassy ? 

[sunshinelove 52]

My wife had her interview in April 2016 and she said they were all very nice. They were all very professional, but friendly. 

[Kamali16 30]

20 hours ago, mathcore said:

not by that much , i emailed the embassy , they replied this morning . as the electronic version is the only one issued by the government since earlier this year . so the embassy use this electronic version in place of the original. as simply as that 
but thanks ! 

btw , are they cool at the embassy ? 

Everyone at the embassy was very kind. The only "negative" thing I personally experienced was the wait time. There were a lot of people before me so I had to wait a long time, but the people I had to speak to were are very friendly.

[Trish and Oli 28]

Hello everyone, 

 

My husband is a Belgian national and will need his birth certificate and copy of his Belgian police records for NVC processing. How did you translate your documents into English? I was thinking of using an online translation service such as rush translate.com. Does NVC accept this?

 

Thank you in advance!