Do your certificates show your correct "Date Of Birth"
By kukkad
@kukkad (511)
India
May 10, 2007 11:40am CST
I know this is a bit silly, my actual date of birth is 27th April' 1976......... but, my documents show it as 27th April' 1977....... a whole 1 year less.
I asked my mother as to what was the reason for this difference and she told me that....... I was a slow learner........ lol and I had joined school 1 year after the normal school joining age......and thats the reason why the difference.
At the time I was born, the registration with the government with respect to the "Date Of Birth" of a new born baby was not mandatory.......
Infact, there are instances in rural India, where parents do not remember their child's date of birth and give an approximation of the date of birth. Now, the date of birth ......... as put in by the principal of the school at the time of admission would become the child's date of birth.
Though things have changed now....... things have changed for the better....... every birth has to be registered compulsorily.
Do you have such differences in the date of birth too....... i mean, difference in your actual date of birth and the one on your documents ?
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29 responses
@shak143 (1280)
• India
10 May 07
Hi Kukkad my certificates also dosen't show my correct date of birth.When i asked to my parents they say that iam a quick learner as they realise at that moment and they had to reduce my age such that i can get admission.Ofcourse at that time it's not mandatory to get registerd our dtae of births but it is mandatory.May be to control people like us.
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@trinidadvelasco (11401)
• Philippines
11 May 07
it is funny how your parents can easily play with your date of births from your area during those time when you were born. the errors that i have known to have occurred are mostly typographical errors. our parents used not to mind so much these errors then. now, as we process or documents, we are suffering from the consequences of their having tolerated those errors.
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@sunslinger (474)
• Singapore
11 May 07
Haha! I like the fact that you are able to laugh at yourself, being a slow learner and all. Not many people do that these days.
As for my birth cert, it's pretty accurate on the day, month, and year. But i think the time may be a little off by a few minutes.
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@kukkad (511)
• India
11 May 07
Its not that........ the very fact that I used to hate school and would cry everytime my parents would send me to school. I used to sit outside my class room and not go inside......lol.
But, then things got normal as I made new friends and everything was normal.
Infact...... as of now....... I am a very good learner......it was just that it took me some time to get started.......:P
@mari61960 (4893)
• United States
10 May 07
Well I know mine is correct...lol But years ago when my girlfriend and I were young and foolish...lol Here son was born on Sept 1st and the cut off date for starting kindergarten was Aug 31st....well we got this foolish idea to change his birth certificate so he could go to school. I looked up old documents and matched different type styles until I had cut and pasted letters, photocopied a million times, used a 1/2 bottle of white out...and finally came up with a perfect looking birth certificate with the date of Aug 31 rather than Sept 1.... Well it worked so well that now 22 years later...he still has conflicting birth records....lol Oh what stupid things we do when we are young.
@evelynlyp (788)
• Japan
11 May 07
I hate these kind of cut of dates thing. They should put the child in school, some kind of preliminary just to see if he can keep up or not. If he could keep up then he can stay in school or else he will have to come back again the following year.
I remember my mom wanted to put me into a certain school. They didn't want me because they say I was too young. They told her to come back next yr. Right away my mom tried another school which accepted me.
@arkaf61 (10881)
• Canada
6 Jun 07
MY mom is the same thing. She actually laughs about it, she says it's cool to be officially younger than what she really is :)
It used to be common at that time because they had to pay some sort of fee to register a newborn and people use to wait some time before registering sometimes.
@sumofalltears (3988)
• United States
10 May 07
I have an accurate birthdate on my certificate. If there is ever any doubt just ask my arthritis. :}
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@paradise12 (938)
• India
3 Jun 07
Yaa my birthdate is accurate on certificate.i agree with u.even in my mom case actually her birthdate is 14 july but i suppose on her license its written 14 june.we dont know exactly but we wish her on 14 july.
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@josephperera (2906)
• Sri Lanka
11 May 07
In Sri Lanka this normally does not happen, not during the past hundred years I hope. But sometimes documents are deliberately forged to go abroad and to get government appointments. Each citizen above 18 had an identity card which can be prepared in any way you like by bribing the relevant officials.
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@5000ml (1923)
• Belgium
11 May 07
My birth certificate definitely shows my correct date of birth as even 24 years ago every birth in my native country (the Netherlands) had to be registered correctly. My father did give in the wrong version of one of my middle names though (Jeanie instead of Jean), but I don't mind that as I think Jeanie sounds really nice. My grandmother however (after whom I was partly named) was pretty annoyed though!
@koolraj_inlove (842)
• India
11 May 07
yes dear, i have myn certificates with the correct birth date.and i am not at all interested to do fake things for any reason.
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@baleshwar (20)
• India
11 May 07
My friend I really appreciate your view of expression... I've witnessed many such cases. Many friends of mine have diferent date of birth in documents rather than their actual dob......... Even it is made compulsory to register birth, you better know my fren this is INDIA.......... and still we will be seeing many such cases
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@evelynlyp (788)
• Japan
11 May 07
My mom's date of birth is not accurate. It was "fixed" because of penalty laws of late registration. 60 yrs ago my grandparents live far away from the city. To get there they have to take a day trip.
So when my mom was born they didn't register her right away. They waited till the next child was born. Then they took them both to be registered. They had to make my mom younger than she really is so that they won't have to pay fines. We do know she's one yr older than what was on her birth certificate however we are not sure of the month or date.
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@laila675 (528)
• United Arab Emirates
12 May 07
luckily i got the right dates on my certificate. but i know some friends who got the same story as yours. they have to change the birth dates to get enrolled. and some has been registered late and has forgotten what is the exact date they were born.
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@leeesa (884)
• United States
11 May 07
Well changing your date of birth certainly won't make you live any longer! I work with someone who came to the US from Vietnam 20 years ago. When she arrived, she didn't have documentation, so she lied about her age and said she was 2 years younger than she really was. She said she was told to do so when she arrived because if she was younger, she could get educational freebies by our government. Now she wishes she had told the truth because it just means she has to work longer before she can retire! haha! What goes around comes around!
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@Inky261 (2520)
• Germany
11 May 07
My grandfather had documents that had the right day and month but not the year. He always stressed: I am two years older than the documents.
Someone put the wrong year into a passport and that was recognized and from then on he was always 2 years younger than the actual age. But this happened more than 90 years ago...
@mypeace (393)
• Nigeria
11 May 07
l have not been able to sight my birth certificate since l was born, so l have been carrying an affidavit since the need for it arises. And it has one year lesser than my real age, that was because l didnt enter high school early enough, so just have to reduce it so that l wont when am an OlD Woman, lol.
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@Palace_Girl (416)
• Philippines
11 May 07
lol. Just now i remember my sister's story.
She grew up knowing that her birthday is August 27, her birth certificate however read September 4. Now came the problem, when she went to college, the school (a catholic university)requires her baptismal certificate so she requested one from the church where she was baptize. To her shock, her baptismal date is September 3. She can't present these two document sinse it will then conclude that she was baptize even before she was born, which is of course impossible!lol. She enrolled instead to a technical university.
A few months back she was also having the same problem because she was getting married and the church also requires the two certificates, she ended up on a civil wedding instead. lol.
I can't anymore tell you why her birth certificate reads September 4 rather than August 27 (her real birthday) it is a long story. Whenever she fills up any form, she writes September 4, but she celebrates during 27th of August.
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@shinjiao (1457)
• China
11 May 07
My certificates show a correct date of my birth.But I know a few of my classmates,their certificates show wrong date of their birth.Because Chinese have two systems of calendars:the lunar calendar and the solar calendar.Now most people use the solar calendar but the lunar calendar is still pop in rural areas.A few of my classmates have the wrong date of birth because their parents use the lunar calendar to remember,but the certificates need the birth date of solar calendar.It's hard to exchange the two calendar systems.So that's the reason why their certificates show their wrong date of birth.
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@heavenhack7 (20)
• India
11 May 07
oh no so sad ...but i hve correct dat come on its fine now you cant do nething
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@ChEenie11 (81)
• Philippines
11 May 07
My certificate/s shows that my date of birth is correct.. But my father experienced that kind of thing too.. And his brother to(which is my uncle obviously). The difference was just that my father had the wrong spelling of his name but now it is all settled. My uncle had the wrong date of birth and birth place. So he just sticked to his original birth date and is working on the birth place.
