Birth registration and birth certificate

This form is used to register a child's birth and get a first birth certificate, to renew a certificate, to get an English translation, to replace a lost certificate, or to change a certificate already issued. It is usually filled in by one of the child's parents, who states their relationship to the child.

If the child will be entered in the islanders' register of a Fonadhoo house, the owner of that house must have no objection.

A birth certificate is a national document. The Council receives and checks your application and will tell you when the certificate is ready.

New certificate:

• The parents' marriage certificate, original and copy. If the parents are divorced, the divorce certificate and the marriage certificate, original and copy.
• The parents' ID cards, original and copy; for a foreign parent, the passport, original and copy.
• If the child was born outside the Maldives: the birth certificate from the country of birth, its translation from that country's embassy, the document from the hospital (original and copy), and a copy of the child's passport.
• If the child will be entered in a Fonadhoo house register: the original islanders' register of that house, and a copy of the ID card of the house owner who signed.

Renewal or English translation:

• The original birth certificate.
• Copies of the ID cards of the certificate holder and of their mother and father.

Lost certificate:

• Copies of the ID cards of the certificate holder and of their mother and father.

• New certificate: two Rf 1 revenue stamps.
• Renewal or English translation: one Rf 1 revenue stamp.
• Lost certificate: one Rf 1 revenue stamp, and Rf 10 for issuing the birth certificate.
• Amendment: the Council will confirm the fee.

The revenue stamps and the fee are not paid online. The Council will tell you how to hand them in.

• Show the originals of the documents you uploaded: the parents' marriage certificate and ID cards (or passports), the hospital document for a child born abroad, and the existing birth certificate for a renewal or English translation.
• If the child will be entered in a Fonadhoo house register, bring the original register of that house. If someone other than the house owner brings the register, they must bring the owner's letter, a copy of the ID card of the owner who signs it, and their own original ID card.
• The house owner signs the no-objection statement on the form.
• Hand in the revenue stamps, and the Rf 10 fee for a lost certificate.
• Enquiries: 6800082.