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| Re: No Birth Certificate - Any advice, please?
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Posted on: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:40:42 +1000
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Gill Palmer wrote:
> Hi all
>
> My mother has applied for a Contributory Parent visa and we heard from
> her CO for the first time a couple of days ago.
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> Mum was born in Sri Lanka in 1920. Her father was a British
> tea-planter out there at the time. Neither she or her siblings ever
> had birth certificates. None of them know why. My aunt says she
> supposes that people just didn't bother with birth-registrations and
> other documents out there in those days.
>
> DIMA want Mum to explain (in a Stat Dec) why she can't produce a birth
> certificate - the truth is, she doesn't know why beyond saying that she
> assumes it is because her birth wasn't registered, and it may not even
> have been possible to register births in Sri Lanka at the time. We
> just don't know, one way or the other. (I understand that this was not
> a necessity in India until about 30 years ago either.) Will something
> along these lines suffice, do you think?
>
> Does anybody know whether it is possible to find out whether there was
> a requirement to register births in Sri Lanka in 1920? I've no idea how
> to find out.
>
> Any help gratefully welcomed.
>
> Thank you
>
> Gill
>
Personally I would fill out a statdec saying I can't remember being born
and my mum is a bit hard to contact these days!
You could try emailing the registration of persons dept in Sri Lanka and
ask when they started registering births. http://www.rpd.gov.lk/ If they
don't know nobody does.
You could also point out that the UK government gave her a ppt and so
they must be satisfied that she was born.
Not sure if this helps but I'm sure the dept knows that lots of people
don't have birth certificates-nobody in Cambodia has a reliable birth
record.
tony
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