{"id":533456,"date":"2010-04-18T23:32:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T03:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/born_in_puerto_rico_you"},"modified":"2010-04-18T23:51:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T03:51:56","slug":"born-in-puerto-rico-you-will-have-to-get-a-new-birth-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/533456","title":{"rendered":"Born in Puerto Rico? You will have to get a new birth certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a title=\"Lee la versi\u00f3n en espa\u00f1ol\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/entry\/certificado_de_nacimiento_de_puerto?comment=view\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"344\" height=\"207\" align=\"right\" style=\"WIDTH: 344px; HEIGHT: 207px\" alt=\"Puerto Rico Birth Certificate Application\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.usa.gov\/roller\/govgab\/resource\/images\/pr%20certificate%20screenshot2.jpg\" border=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" complete=\"true\" complete=\"true\" \/>Lee la versi\u00f3n en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you were born in Puerto Rico (P.R.) and you\u2019re feeling a bit confused about the new birth certificate law, know one thing: there\u2019s no need to rush to get your birth certificate come July 1st.<\/p>\n<p>According to information I found on the <a title=\"P.R. Department of Health website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salud.gov.pr\/Programas\/RegistroDemografico\/Pages\/NuevosCertificadosdeNacimiento-English.aspx\">P.R. Department of Health website<\/a>, the government of Puerto Rico recommends that only people who have a specific need for their birth certificate such as a new passport application request a new one on July 1st.&nbsp; If you just want a new birth certificate for your records, it\u2019s suggested that you wait, that way those people who really need one can get it right away. How long will it take to get a new birth certificate? That I don\u2019t know. I couldn\u2019t find the answer to that question anywhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So why was this new law enacted?<\/strong>&nbsp; The issue seems to be that many transactions in P.R. required the submission, retention and storage of birth certificates.&nbsp; Often times, these certificates were not stored properly and were easy targets for theft.&nbsp; Apparently, in recent years around 40% of the U.S. passport fraud cases involved birth certificates of people born in P.R., which left them vulnerable to identity theft, ruined credit and stolen Social Security benefits. <\/p>\n<p><strong>What else do you need to know?<\/strong> <br \/>\u2022&nbsp;On July 1st, 2010, the new law will make all birth certificated issued before that date (7\/1\/10) invalid. <br \/>\u2022&nbsp;All new birth certificates will cost $5. Additional copies will cost $4. <br \/>\u2022&nbsp;The new certificates won\u2019t expire.<br \/>\u2022&nbsp;Common transactions in P.R. will no longer require that you submit multiple original copies of your certificate.<br \/>\u2022&nbsp;If you like me, were born in P.R. but are residing somewhere else, download an <a title=\"application\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salud.gov.pr\/Programas\/RegistroDemografico\/Documents\/Birth%20Certificate%20Application.pdf\">application<\/a> and mail it. You\u2019ll find all the details (such as where to mail it, information required, etc.) on the application.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Good luck! I will keep you posted on how my application process goes and how long it takes.&nbsp; Please do the same. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee la versi\u00f3n en espa\u00f1ol If you were born in Puerto Rico (P.R.) and you\u2019re feeling a bit confused about the new birth certificate law, know one thing: there\u2019s no need to rush to get your birth certificate come July 1st. According to information I found on the P.R. Department of Health website, the government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}