Birth Registration: Necessary Documents, Procedure, Cost and Time

A birth registration certificate is an essential document for important activities in the country including a national identity card, passport, driving license, trade license. This birth registration certificate contains the identity of a person’s citizenship at birth.

Therefore, after the birth of the child, along with other important tasks, parents should have the child’s name recorded in the official register. Earlier, the birth registration process was offline from the beginning to the end, but now the information is being taken online in the interest of storing the information of the citizens in the government database. Let’s take a look at the latest process of birth registration.

Documents Required for Birth Registration

Some documents need to be prepared for birth registration first. There are also differences in the paperwork for people of different ages.

The documents required to register the birth of a child within the first 45 days after birth are:

1. Print copy of online application form.
2. One copy passport-size photo of the child.
3. Child EPI (Expanded Program on Immunization) Vaccine Card or Certificate from EPI Staff
4. Attested copy of the child’s birth certificate or birth attendant’s certificate or any other birth certificate from the hospital or clinic as proof of place and date of birth of the child.
5. Birth certificate of parents registered online in both Bengali and English languages.
6. National identity card of parents.
7. Proof of tax payment by anyone parent of the child.

In case of a child aged 46 days to 5 years, all the other documents except the ‘4’ mentioned above will be required.

In case of children above 5 years or any person-

1. Print copy of online application form.
2. One copy passport-size photo of the child.
3. Certificate from a doctor with MBBS or above degree recognized by Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council.
4. PSC (Primary School Certificate), JSC (Junior School Certificate) or SSC (Secondary School Certificate).
5. Birth certificate of parents registered online in both Bengali and English languages.
6. National identity card of parents.
7. Proof of renewal of tax against place mentioned as permanent address in the name of parents/grandparents subject to proof of place of birth or permanent address.
   Or, in case of river erosion/termination of permanent address for any reason, deed of purchase of land/house, receipt of payment of rent and tax.
   Or, a certificate from the chairman or ward councilor of the municipality subject to proof of residence.

Application Procedure for Birth Registration Certificate

At present, the application for birth registration is no longer accepted by filling up the handwritten form. Apply online and then submit the completed form along with the required documents to the nearest local government office.

To apply for online birth registration, first, go to the Birth and Death Registration Website of the Government of Bangladesh.

To collect the birth registration certificate on the first screen you have to select the local government office. The candidate can take the certificate from his/her place of birth, permanent address, or current address.

The next step will be to give the name and address of the candidate and the parents. If the candidate was born before 2001, only the parents have to give their names. Otherwise, the parents have to give the national identity card number.

Finally, the phone number of the candidate should be given where the message regarding the application for a birth certificate will come.

Once the online application is completed, the received application form has to be downloaded and printed. The required documents must be attached to the nearest local government office and submitted within a maximum of 15 working days along with the birth registration fee.

At the time of submission, the officer in charge will leave an office copy and give a customer a copy. When the birth certificate confirmation message finally arrives on the mobile, the customer has to take the copy with him on the day of taking the certificate.

An application ID is given after completing the online application. By providing this IDT and the date of birth of the candidate, the current status of the birth registration application can be known online.

Fees and Time Required for Birth Registration

1. Birth registration for a 45-day-old baby can be done for free.
2. The fee for birth registration of children from 46 days to 5 years is 25 Taka. The fee for the registration of birth from outside the country is 1 USD.
3. Birth certificate correction fee of 100 Taka. 2 USD for candidates from outside the country.
4. To get the original certificate in both Bengali and English or to get a copy of the certificate after correcting the information can be done for free.
5. But to get a copy of the birth registration certificate in both Bengali and English language, you have to pay 50 Taka and candidates from outside the country have to pay 1 US dollar fee.

The birth registration fee has to be paid at the time of submitting the required documents along with the application to the concerned City Corporation / Municipality / Union Parishad office. Birth registration certificate is usually issued within 5 working days from the date of application. But it often takes about a month to get the birth certificate.

Terms of Correction of Birth Registration Information

In case of correcting the name of the father or mother, they have to correct their name by requesting to correct the information with the birth certificate number registered online. Candidates can then apply for correction of parents’ names in the birth registration.

If the parents do not have a birth certificate and the candidate’s date of birth is before 2001, the name of the parents can be fixed at the time of application for amendment of his birth registration. In that case, even if one of them is dead, they do not have to show any proof of death. At the same time, there is no question of amending their birth registration certificate separately.

However, if the candidate is born after 2001, he/she will have to submit the death certificate to correct the name of the father or mother at the time of application for correction of birth registration information.

The Birth Registration Correction Procedure

The first thing to note here is that the birth certificate must be registered online to correct the birth registration online. Otherwise, you have to register your birth online.

To correct the information of birth registration certificate one has to enter the application section for correction of birth information of the same website. First, you will see two empty boxes with correction instructions.

In the first one, you have to give the birth registration number of 17 numbers mentioned in the birth certificate and in the second you have to give the date of birth. Then after displaying the captcha and filling it, all the information related to the birth certificate of the person registered on the server can be seen. Here the application can be made through necessary corrections of information.

Once the application is completed, the completed form along with the required documents should be submitted to the concerned City Corporation / Municipality / Union Parishad office. Although 10 to 15 working days are mentioned here, it usually takes more time to get the revised birth certificate.

Here are some of the documents you need to keep ready:

1. Candidate’s online registered birth registration certificate
2. Birth certificate of parents registered online
3. Certificate of Educational Qualification or Vaccine Certificate. Relevant documents may be required as proof of information where applicable.

Conclusion

The online process of applying for a birth registration certificate has made this important process more dynamic and hassle-free. Now the process after applying needs to be further uninterrupted. Many of the customers are expressing negative opinions about birth registration fees and the receipt of certificates. In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to take appropriate measures in the back office for technically skilled manpower and the processing of new and old birth registrations. The issue of re-registering citizens who have already registered their birth online shows inefficiency in management. Receipt of a birth registration issued by the government online after a certain working day of verification and selection by applying online can ultimately digitalize the country.