Orphaned child’s 10-year battle for a birth certificate

For the past ten years, Bronwyn Moss and her family have been battling to register an orphaned child with the Department of Home Affairs.

Moss, from Mooinooi in North West Province, has been advised to adopt the child in order to get his documents, but she cannot adopt without documents proving who he is.

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State settles suit to make it easier for immigrants to get birth certificates for citizen children

Texas has settled a federal lawsuit that accused the state of making it impossible for many undocumented workers to get copies of birth certificates for their children born in the U.S.


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Lawyers: US-born kids harmed by denial of birth certificates

Lawyers: US-born kids harmed by denial of birth certificates

Lawyers are asking a federal judge to intervene on the behalf of immigrant families who were denied birth certificates for their U.S.-born children because Texas health officials refused to recognize as valid certain forms of identification.

Adoption case study: ‘It’s a tragedy I wasn’t given my birth cert’

Adoption case study: ‘It’s a tragedy I wasn’t given my birth cert’

David Kinsella was illegitimate child number 1629 at St Patrick’s mother-and-baby home in the late 1950s.

Utah won’t appeal federal court ruling in lesbian moms’ birth certificate case

Utah won’t appeal federal court ruling in lesbian moms’ birth certificate case

Utah will not appeal a federal judge's ruling that found the state's policy for issuing birth certificates to the parents of children conceived through sperm donation was gender-based discrimination.

New law would give adopted right to birth cert

New law would give adopted right to birth cert

Up to 50,000 adopted people would have the right to their birth cert for the first time under proposed new legislation.