An Issue with My Irish Foreign Born Registry Certificate

Honk2024

I have successfully achieved Foreign Birth Registration and received my certificate, however:

I have legally changed my name from my birth name.

I included all necessary legal documentation re: the legal change of name per instructions and they were accepted.

THE ISSUE: When I rec'vd the FBR certificate, it had my birth name rather than my legally changed name.

Is that normal and correct?

Or do I need to have the FBR certificate fixed?

Thank you very much.

Peregrinus

I think that's normal. The birth certificate records the state of affairs at your birth. Your change of name came later.

Jim2007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058384007/an-issue-with-my-irish-foreign-born-registry-certificate

Yes it's correct. It' comfirms a factual event - a person was born on a given date with a given name nothing more. Proving you are that person is a separate step in all cases.

Honk2024

@Peregrinus and @Jim2007 Thank you very much!

Claw Hammer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122944883#Comment_122944883

Settled law in this case:-

[54] I accept and agree with the finding of McKechnie J., that the record on the Register of Births is merely a historical document recording particular facts on a particular day – it is a “snapshot” of a moment in time. This register is not an identity document nor is it the official curriculum vitae of events of legal import for a person. Significant events subsequent to the birth of a person, for example marriage or death are not recorded on the Register by way of annotation. S.27 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Ireland), 1880permits alteration of the register by reason of “clerical errors” or “errors of substance” byway of marginal annotation. No error was made in the recording of the sex of the appellant as male as that represented the best information available at the time the record was completed. Neither is it a “mistake” within the meaning of the Civil Registration Act, 2004 and thus the power to rectify mistakes contained in sections 63 and 64 of the 2004 Act are also not applicable.

https://doras.dcu.ie/23130/1/Foy_v_An_tArd_Chlaraitheoir_and_Ors_2002.pdf