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A Cuban certificación de nacimiento is drawn from a bound registry book and carries book, folio and page references. A Venezuelan record issued since the 2010 civil registry reform looks nothing like the earlier partida de nacimiento. Colombian records carry a NUIP and often a notary's details. Haitian records come from the Archives Nationales, in French. Brazilian certidões are issued by private cartórios operating under state delegation — an institutional arrangement with no US equivalent.

Translating any of these as a generic "birth certificate" loses the issuing authority, which is one of the things a reviewing officer checks first.

Miami-Dade Circuit Court receives translated evidence, and the Clerk of Courts holds marriage records and court filings.

For applicants from countries where records are unobtainable, USCIS accepts secondary evidence — church baptismal records, school records, affidavits from people with direct knowledge — where primary records are genuinely unavailable.

These are translated as what they are. A baptismal certificate translated as a birth certificate is inaccurate and undermines a filing that would otherwise have been fine on secondary evidence.