Vital certificate and its importance in our life

Vital certificates are a record of life events.

Vital certificates are administered by a country’s governmental authority. Vital certificates include and are not restricted to birth certificates, marriage certificates or licenses, separation agreements, custody certificates, divorce certificates, and death certificates etc.

In UAE, vital certificates are issued when a child is born, a birth notification is issued by the hospital where the child was born. After which, the biological parents retrieve the birth certificate from the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP).

Once you have the birth certificate issued in UAE, this vital certificate attestation is a must by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to get the baby’s passport issued and sponsor your baby .

Likewise, when you marry in the UAE at the government courts (Dubai Courts, Abu Dhabi courts, etc), the marriage certificate which is a vital document is issued by the UAE courts in Arabic.

When you have the Arabic marriage certificate from the courts, this vital certificate attestation is a MUST by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs if sponsoring your spouse in UAE.

If there is a divorce taking place in UAE between a couple, they must file for a divorce at the courts to make this legal and binding. Once the divorce is issued which is a vital document, the divorce certificate should be kept safely. If the divorcing couple has children, then the custody certificate is a vital record. This shows which parent has custody of the children. This vital certificate attestation is mandatory when sponsoring the children after a divorce.

If a person dies, a death certificate is issued. This is a vital certificate for the family who is left behind. They require to use the death certificate at government entities to cancel the visa of the person (if living in UAE), they must intimate all banks and institutions that the deceased had a working relationship with.