To request a birth certificate for any other person, including any child where your name does not appear on the birth certificate, you must order in person or by mail. When applying by telephone using your credit card you have the option of speaking with an operator or using our automated voice ordering system. The automated voice ordering system, is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If not, please allow up to one week for your request to be processed and mailed. To save time, an automated form filler service is available.
Form filler is a part of the credit card option.
Your relationship to the owner Reason why you are requesting the certificate When using our walk-in service please go to Room 133. You may pay the cashiers using cash, check or a money order. If you are applying for a certificate on behalf of someone else, you must provide us with an original, notarized letter signed by that person authorizing release of their certificate to you. You must also bring with you that person's photo ID as well as your own. To contact DOH's Vital Records, please use the Vital Records Comment Form .