@Indian fellow applicants on Birth Certificate:
Just logged in and read few posts before going to sleep, thought to post a reply.
What I think is, it's up to the VO OR the person that is checking the application completeness to pass / fail the applicant. The issue is, most of you say that you do not have Birth Certificates before certain years [I know as Pakistan had the same shitty system at that time, but somehow, they managed to setup a system (for once
), to register the Birth by showing Passport AND/OR Matric Certificate along with parents identity and a government organization that regulates local identification cards will officially generate a Computerized Birth Certificate in English and National language on the same page], but, few of you will argue too that we obtained the BC by etc etc way.
Now the issue comes here, when many Indian applications reaches at CIO and they find few of them having BCs while the rest are sending supporting evidence, they get confuse on which one to believe [Matric & Passports might have been accepted IF all of Indian applicants send it without adding BCs and explaining the situation]. Now the decision is at VO's discretion.
P.S. on a lighter note, VO's at Local VO & at CIO know the issues different countries face regarding documentations, so they exactly know if someone is saying that by xyz reason, I was not able to send it. This knowledge comes handy in above situations
Just my 50 cents ;D
