Dokument #1269332
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
According to a consular officer at the
Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the government of Iran did
not require Iranian nationals (either within or outside of Iran)
who held birth certificates with the emblem of the ex-monarchy to
exchange them for birth certificates bearing the emblem of the
Islamic Republic of Iran (6 Jan. 1993).
In Iran, however, birth certificates are
also used as identification cards. These birth certificates bear
the picture of their owner and they must be regularly updated (5
Jan. 1993). There is no regular time period within which birth
certificates must be updated; the government in power at the time
determines when the certificates are to be updated. When the
government decides to recall birth certificates to update them, it
makes public announcements in the Iranian media. The certificates
of the oldest sector of the population are updated first, and the
authorities work their way back by age until all Iranian nationals
have had their certificates updated (6 Jan. 1993).
Those Iranian nationals who are outside of
Iran often call their embassy when they learn from their family
members or Iranian newspapers that it is time to update their birth
certificates and process the update through the embassy
(Ibid.).
After the government changed in Iran in
1979, the emblem of the ex-monarchy on the birth certificate was
changed to depict the emblem of the Islamic Republic of Iran (5
Jan. 1993). Birth certificates issued or updated after 1979 would
reflect this change and have the new emblem.
Additional information on this subject
could not be found among the sources currently available to the
DIRB.
Embassy of the Islamic Republic of
Iran, Ottawa. January 5 and 6 1993. Telephone Interviews with
Consular Officer.