The birth certificate is usually processed in a civil registry.
Acta is a concept with several uses. In this case we are interested in sticking with its meaning as the official record that certifies a certain event. The notion of birth , for its part, refers to the act and consequence of being born (a verb that can refer to emerging from the womb, from an egg or a seed).
The birth certificate , therefore, is the document that records when a person is born. This document, issued by the State , contains various data linked to the individual who has just been born, such as his or her name and the name of his or her parents, the date and place of birth.
Generation of the birth certificate
To generate the birth certificate, the parents of the newborn (or one of them) must go to a civil registry with the certificate they were given at the hospital or health center where the birth took place. In the civil registry, parents register their child and receive the corresponding birth certificate, which is the first step for the baby in question to be registered as a citizen of a certain country.
The original birth certificate is filed in the civil registry, while the parents receive a copy. The document may be required to carry out various procedures, such as a request for citizenship or the inclusion of the individual in a social work to obtain medical coverage.
Registration at the hospital itself
It is important to establish that, in recent times, in Spain, in order to make it much easier for parents to register their child, it has been decided to allow the registration of the child to be done in the hospital itself. In this way, the fact that they have to go to the aforementioned Civil Registry to obtain the birth certificate is left aside.
Now, in health centers, there is a specific area that is responsible for sending all the necessary documentation to the aforementioned organization so that parents do not have to travel there.
The birth certificate is necessary to carry out various procedures.
Importance of the birth certificate
In addition to its importance for procedures and for the generation of other documents (such as the national identity document ), the birth certificate establishes the origin of an individual. In this way, in the future, the person themselves can trace their birth certificate to find out about their parents, if for some reason they did not have or do not have contact. When it comes to a celebrity, researchers often look for their birth certificate to confirm when and where the character they are interested in was born.
Of course, in order to access the birth certificate that is kept in the relevant registry, it is necessary to request it in advance, either by email, through web forms that may exist or in person.
Processing problems
Among the main problems that may arise when obtaining the certificate for a baby is not being allowed to be registered with the chosen name. This may be because it is a name that is not recognized as such in the country or because it is considered to be offensive to the child in question.
Thus, for example, the case of a minor who was not allowed to register with the name of León in the Registry came to the media. Hence their parents had to go to court for them to agree with them.