Birth Certificates are now being offered at our Niceville location and coming soon for all other locations in Okaloosa County. Below are the requirements of what is needed to obtain the birth record.
What to Bring:
Valid Photo Identification (ID) is required for all applicants requesting a certification of a birth record. Tax Collector offices are only allowed to issue birth records to the adult child listed on the birth record or the parent(s) listed on the birth record. All other applicants should be referred to the CDR at the county vital statistics office.
FORMS OF IDENTIFICATION
Identification (ID) is required for all requests for birth certification.
Identification must be in the form of a valid/unexpired photo ID in order to determine the
applicant is, in fact, the person they purport to be. The Florida Department of Motor Vehicles has stated that an individual’s Florida Driver’s license and/or Identification card may be expired up to one year, but it is still acceptable for use as a form of identification, s.322.18, F.S. The ID must be legible, intact, in one piece, not torn or in more than one piece; not taped or rubber banded together, etc.
If the driver license and/or Identification card was not issued in Florida but has been expired less than 30 days, then it may be used as a primary ID.
Primary types of valid Photo ID:
- Motor vehicle operator’s license issued from:
- 50 US states.
- US territories:
- State ID card issued by Department of Motor Vehicles.
- Passport; US Passport Card, a provisional passport is acceptable if it has not expired or does not appear to be altered.
- Military ID, DD Form 2.
- Active has green background
- Retired has blue background
- White Common Access Card
- Military Dependent ID, active or retired, DD 1173
- Learner’s/Instruction Driver’s Permit, if over 18 years of age.
- Inmate ID card issued on or after January 1, 1991, by Florida Department of Corrections (inmate still in custody of the department).
- Pilot’s License.
- Concealed Weapons License.