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10 GCA § 3215.1

Certificate of Foreign Birth

Guam Code AnnotatedTitle 10 — Health and Safety
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The Guam Registrar of Vital Statistics shall, upon request, establish a new certificate of birth for a person born in a foreign country when in receipt of a report of adoption decreed by a court of competent jurisdiction, proof of the date and place of the person’s birth, and a request from the court, the adopting parent or parents, or the adopted person if eighteen

(18)years of age or over, that such a certificate be prepared. The certificate shall be labeled ‘Certificate of Foreign Birth’ and shall show the actual country of birth. The Certificate of Foreign Birth shall show the true or probable foreign country of birth, and shall state that the certificate is not evidence of United States citizenship for the child for whom it is issued or for the adoptive parent or parents. After registration of the Certificate of Foreign Birth in the new name of the adopted person, the Guam Registrar shall seal the report of adoption, which shall not be subject to inspection except upon order of a court of competent jurisdiction.

§ The story of this section

  1. Enacted by P.L. 28-31 § 6 — introduced as Bill 40-28 · introduced by Rory J. Respicio

Reconstructed from the Guam Code Annotated. For the authoritative version, see the official PDF.