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Change address on birth cert?

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  • 05-04-2012 8:33pm
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    Hobbitfeet
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    Is it possible to change the address on our babies birth cert?


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    Lola92
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    As far as I know the birth cert address is just to record the place the child's parents are living at the time of birth. It doesn't have to be updated if you move. Unless you gave an incorrect address at the time of registering the birth I don't know why you would need to change it. I have never heard of it being done before anyway.


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    Hobbitfeet
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    Maybe its a silly reason to want to change it but when he was born we were living in a pretty crappy estate that has a bad name and now we have moved to countryside would prefer to have that address on there so just wondered if it was possible


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    Lola92
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    I understand. To answer your question I don't actually know if you can or not but I would guess not as it is place of parents residence at time of birth.

    For what it's worth any time I have had to fill any forms etc. out they ask for current address and if ever place of birth I say Dublin and no more! They generally don't ask for a lot of detail on place of birth.


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    highly1111
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    I just registered my baby's birth today and asked this exact question. He arrived 10 days before we were due to move back to Dublin - we were living in meath for 6 months. Anyway I wanted the Dublin address on the cert and the registrar said it wasnt possible at all - it has to be the address you are at at the time of the birth - there was no budging on that rule. So we now have a culchi baby!! ;-)

    Edited to say that Holles st had provided the Meath address so that there qasnk way I could bluff my way around it!!


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    Hobbitfeet
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    Thanks for the replies looks like we are stuck with it.


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    rainbowtrout
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    Hobbitfeet wrote: »
    Maybe its a silly reason to want to change it but when he was born we were living in a pretty crappy estate that has a bad name and now we have moved to countryside would prefer to have that address on there so just wondered if it was possible

    I would imagine that the birth cert being a legal document means that the information on it also has to be correct. Therefore the address given is the one that you were living at the time your child was born.

    I don't see why you need to change it anyway, birth certs are only used to register for schools, get passports etc. Passports only show county of birth nothing else.

    It sounds a little snobby to be honest.


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