Nevada Birth Certificate: Order a Certified Copy Online

What a direct and tangible interest covers in Nevada

Nevada Revised Statutes 440.650 sets the test and Nevada Administrative Code 440.070 narrows it: a relative by blood or marriage within the second degree, someone in a legal relationship with the registrant, or someone a law requires to obtain the record. In practice that reaches grandparents, children, brothers and sisters, grandchildren, spouses, former spouses and domestic partners, stepparents and stepchildren, adoptive family, guardians, attorneys and holders of a power of attorney. Aunts, uncles and cousins sit outside the second degree.

Documents that prove the relationship

The state's proof list, known as Attachment A, ties each relationship to its evidence. Only the registrant and a parent named on the record need nothing beyond ID.

• a grandparent: the birth certificate of their own child, the registrant's parent
• a son, daughter, brother or sister: the applicant's own birth certificate
• a spouse or domestic partner: the marriage or partnership certificate
• a guardian: the court order, including orders from tribal courts
• an attorney: a request on letterhead describing the legal need

Grandchildren and step-relatives send several linking documents.

Las Vegas, Reno and the Carson City office

Nevada's two health districts can issue only the certificates first filed with them. The Southern Nevada Health District on South Decatur Boulevard in Las Vegas covers Clark County births from 1973 to the present. Northern Nevada Public Health in Reno holds Washoe County births from the late 1800s on and states plainly that it cannot provide a certificate for a birth outside Washoe County. Every other Nevada birth, and every correction, goes through the Office of Vital Records in Carson City, which holds births from July 1, 1911; earlier ones sit with the county recorder.

Accepted identification

Attachment B lists the IDs Nevada takes. One valid photo ID is enough, and the list is generous: a driver's license or state ID, a U.S. or foreign passport, a military, tribal or school ID, a consular card, a permanent resident or employment authorization card, or a Clarity Card from a homeless service provider. Without one, two secondary documents will do, such as a certified birth certificate, a Social Security card, a Medicaid card, a recent W-2 or a recent pay stub. People experiencing homelessness can instead sign a statement under penalty of perjury, which the statute says must not be notarized.

What the certified copy shows, and later changes

The certified copy leaves out the medical and statistical part of the record, and the application lets you choose whether the parents print as "Mother" and "Father" or as "Parent" and "Parent". Birth information can be released to the public 125 years after the birth. After an adoption the state files a supplementary certificate and seals the original, which only the court that granted the adoption can open. A declaration of parentage or a court order produces a new certificate, while corrections need notarized affidavits. A delayed certificate requires at least four independent documents that are at least five years old.

How it works when you order with BirthChek

Our Nevada form follows Attachment A: anyone other than the registrant or a listed parent uploads the linking documents for their relationship, and we review them before filing. You choose your relationship, from maternal or paternal grandparent to domestic partner or executor, give each parent's last name before first marriage, upload your ID and sign. BirthChek then files with the Nevada Office of Vital Records.