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I know this just a forum for us immigration, but I hope you can help us, too. My chinese wife want to apply for german citizenship, for that we need a birth certificate from china. We tried for months to get one, but it seems to be almost impossible. My wife was born in a small town in north china. Her parents divorced and she moved to the new husband of her mother, living in south china. Her "new father" has a son from his first marriage which is holding the Hukou also for my wife. There was no real adoption like western standard, but it seems, that the new husband of her mother will automatically be her legal father.

I always read, that a birth certificate will be made by notary, all we need is to provide her hukou. So her new father, a police man, contacted a friend who is a notary, but he refused to write a birth certificate for her. We contacted the public notary office of her new hukou town directly, but they said she have to apply for a birth certificate in her birth town first.

She contacted her biological father which is still living in her birth town and asked him to get this paper from the police. The local police couldn't find a record for her, so they send him to the hospital where she was born. There they said she must go there in person, this will be the only way that they write a new confirmation for the police. Then she must go to the police office of her home town and get a chinese birth certificate. Then she must go with this in person to the notary in south china and they will write a international birth certificate for her, which will be certified from the local goverment and then legalized by german embassy. This would mean she have to travel around the world to beijing, take a flight to harbin and 8 hours by bus to her birth town. After that 8 hours back by bus, take a flight to south china and fly back around the world, all this just for a piece of paper.

Anyone know how to argue to the public notary office to write a birth certificate for her just with her hukou, without all the stress in north china? I often read this is the common way for a international birth certificate, but as written before, they always refuse to do this for us.