Are Laminated Birth Certificates Valid

An abstract birth certificate is not the same as an original or certified birth certificate regardless of whether it is accepted as valid identification for purposes other than getting a real id.

Are laminated birth certificates valid.

Any response to my query is highly appreciated. Do not ever laminate your certificates birth certificates naturalization certificate or whatever. It would be unacceptable by embassies and schools hospitals etc that are up to international standard practices. After going through lots of stress to get my original birth certificate i quickly laminated it to have it protected.

Neither will the us passport agency. And when we went to the post office in buffalo ny we were told that the laminated birth certificate could be refused and the report of birth abroad not certificate only report for child born abroad to on usc couldn t transfer citizenship due to not living in the us for 5 yrs wouldn t support the passport application as it supposed to be a. For instance the dmv won t accept a laminated birth certificate. If you need to have it framed like a photo or for storage keep in plastic.

6 even some embassies and organization are complaining now. I got to one of our embassies only to have it rejected. I laminated my original birth certificate a few years back due to the ageing paper and i recently obtained copies of the birth certificate which have been issued by the authorities laminated are these accepeted by the embassy. People do make copies and have the copy laminated.

However see my first comment and it explains why the answer is no you can not laminate either documents.