Rushing about a Certificate for Giving Birth to Second Child, Which Took 7 Months to Collect 30 Official Seals

AuthorZhao Xibin

Wang Mei and her husband, both the only child of their families respectively, have a 5-year-old child. They are allowed to have a second child legally. After an unexpected pregnancy, they decided to keep this little baby.

A community officer informed Wang Mei of the procedure of getting a Certificate for Giving Birth to Second Child: each of the husband and the wife need to produce his/her “Certificate of Only Child” and a confirmation letter from his/her registered permanent residence confirming that he/she is “indeed the only child in his/her family”. The couple prepared an application form, two Marriage and Childbearing Certificates, their ID cards, Hu-Kou, Certificates of Only Child and Marriage Certificate, their first child’s Birth Certificate, four 2-inch photos of the couple, a 1-inch passport size photo of Wang Mei, as well as several documents generated by the officer from the computer, including a form of approval of second birth, confirmation letter of the marriage and childbearing, the “Childbirth Service Certificate” of their first child etc.

Wang Mei said, “My registered permanent residence is elsewhere whilst my husband’s is Beijing. I have to obtain confirmation documents from three levels of government of my hometown, including the community, sub-district office and district government, which confirm that this is my first marriage and that I gave birth to only one child. Moreover, we also need to confirm that we are both the only child of our families and to produce our Certificate of Only Child.” Wang Mei stated in addition that, “Besides obtaining confirmation documents from three levels of government of my hometown, I am also required to provide confirmation documents from the same three levels of government of my parents’ hometown, which confirm that my parents were married and that they gave...

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