Do you need to request a Full Copy of the Birth Certificate from the Municipality of Carrara? If this is your concern, then you are in the right place.
What follows is, in fact, a detailed and comprehensive guide dedicated specifically to how to obtain the document in this Municipality.
PLEASE NOTE!
If you already know that you wish to entrust us with the application for a Full Copy of the Birth Certificate at the Municipality of Carrara, please contact us!
If the Full Copy of the Birth Certificate needs to be legalized or apostilled, a step at the Prefecture is required, and we can handle it on your behalf, along with any necessary translation. In this case, the territorially competent Prefecture is the Prefecture of Massa-Carrara.
The Full Copy of the Birth Certificate is a complete duplicate of a person’s original Birth Record. This means that it includes all essential information regarding a person’s birth (name; surname; date, and place of birth), all the annotations required by law (for example, adoptions; judicially declared incapacitation; marriages; divorces; recognition of children born in or out of wedlock), and any other information recorded on the original Birth Record (for example, additional names; the name of the hospital where the birth took place; the name of the declarant).
The Full Copy of the Birth Certificate may be requested by any person who meets the following requirements:
The Full Copy of the Birth Certificate can be requested from the Municipality of Carrara only if one of the following conditions is met:
Below, you will find all the necessary details for contacting or accessing the competent office that issues the Full Copy of the Birth Certificate:
Telephone: +39 0585 641333, +39 0585 641438, +39 0585 641385, +39 0585 641265, +39 0585 641520, +39 0585 641293, +39 0585 641524, +39 0585 641526, +39 0585 641268 (Registry Office); +39 0585 641280, +39 0585 641228, +39 0585 641273, +39 0585 641231 (Civil Registry Office)
Physical address: Piazza 2 Giugno, 1, 54033 Carrara MS
Certified Email (PEC): anagrafe@pec.comune.carrara.ms.it (Registry Office); statocivile@pec.comune.carrara.ms.it (Civil Registry Office)
Email: anagrafe@comune.carrara.ms.it (Registry Office); statocivile@comune.carrara.ms.it (Civil Registry Office)
Institutional website: https://www.comune.carrara.ms.it/
Municipal service for the issuance of some digital certificates: https://sportellotelematico.comune.carrara.ms.it/
Opening hours to the public Registry Office:
Opening hours to the public Civil Registry Office:
To verify how to book an appointment with the Civil Registry Office, it is advisable to contact the office.
For further information, it is possible to consult the institutional website of the Municipality.
Below, we list all the methods that allow you to request the Full Copy of the Birth Certificate in this Municipality.
As part of the application submission, you may need to fill out forms. Where specific forms are required, they may be provided at the counter (for in-person applications) or be available on the website of the Municipality of Carrara (for remote applications).
A person who meets the requirements to apply for the Full Copy of the Birth Certificate may also submit the request through authorized representatives. The representative must provide a power of attorney (or proxy) on plain paper, drafted and signed by the delegating party, a copy of the delegating party’s identity document, and their own identity document. It may also be necessary to present documentation suitable for proving the delegating party’s legally relevant interest. The Municipality may require that the power of attorney be drafted using a specific form. Generally, any specific authorization forms are available on the Municipality’s website.
PLEASE NOTE!
Some request methods allow you to obtain a digital copy of the Full Copy of the Birth Certificate. If you need to send it to a Foreign Country, this may not be sufficient as the document might need to be legalized or apostilled. In cases where legalization or apostille of the document is required, you must request a paper copy of the document signed with the handwritten signature of a municipal official whose signature is registered at the territorially competent Prefecture.
– Through the Competent Office’s Digital Communication Channels (email and/or Certified Electronic Mail – PEC)
The competent office may issue the document through its digital communication channels listed in paragraph 4.
In this case, you must send a request to the office using one of the available channels. In your request, you must state that you are requesting a Full Copy of the Birth Certificate and include the certificate holder’s details. You must also attach a copy of your identity document. It may be necessary to attach additional documentation to prove your legally relevant interest.
– At the Counter of the Municipal Registry Office
You may also request this document in person by visiting the counter of the competent office of the Municipality of Carrara located at the address listed in paragraph 4 during the specified opening hours.
Access to the office may require an appointment. To check if an appointment is necessary and how to schedule it, you must contact the office.
As part of submitting the application for your request, you may be required to provide documentation demonstrating the legally relevant interest.
– Via Mail and/or Courier
The Municipality of Carrara may also issue the Full Copy of the Birth Certificate via mail and/or courier.
To verify this, it is necessary to contact the competent Municipal office using the contacts listed in paragraph 4 beforehand to determine if the document can also be issued in this manner.
Full Copies of Civil Status Certificates (Birth, Marriage, Death, and Civil Union/Registered Partnership) issued on plain paper are usually issued free of charge. In the case of requests sent by mail or courier, the shipping cost must be covered. The Municipality of Carrara may charge administrative fees for processing requests.
For Full Copies of Civil Status Certificates associated with historical records dated over 100 years ago, the Municipality of Carrara may require a contribution of up to €300 per full copy, and the issuing procedures for these specific full copies may differ from those outlined in this guide. To verify if a contribution is required for the issuance of such documents, you must contact the Municipality.
Full Copies of Birth Certificates requested at the counter of the Municipal Registry Office are issued immediately, unless otherwise specified by the official at the time the request is submitted.
If requested via email and Certified Electronic Mail (PEC), they are usually issued within 30 days.
For Full Copies of Birth Certificates that are not digitized (e.g., those associated with very old Birth Records), issuance may require a time ranging from 30 to 180 days and, under certain circumstances, may even be longer.
If the Municipality provides for issuance via mail or courier, the necessary time for the parcel to reach its destination must be added to the issuance times.
Do you already know that you cannot personally handle the application for a Full Copy of the Birth Certificate, or any other Certificate, Extract, or Full Copy of a Record, at the Municipality of Carrara? We can do it for you!
Send an email to info@multilex.it and we will be happy to request and obtain the document(s) you need.
We can also handle their legalization or apostille at the Prefecture and/or their official translation.
Finally, we can carry out any other procedure on your behalf at the Municipality of Carrara, such as the registration of records, annotations and corrections, as well as marriage banns and applications for the registration of a civil union/registered partnership, through power of attorney.
