Municipality of Boekel: applying for a copy of a birth certificate

Applying online

Were you born in the Netherlands? Do you live in the Netherlands and have a DigiD? If so, you can apply for your birth certificate online. You can also use your DigiD to apply for your birth certificate from outside the Netherlands.

https://www.boekel.nl/inwoners-en-ondernemers/paspoort-identiteitskaart/uittreksels/afschrift-burgerlijke-stand?sqr=uittreksel%20burgerlijke%20stand

Applying at the service desk

You can apply for your birth certificate at the service desk of your municipality. You need to make an appointment. Take a valid identity document with you.

By appointment

Make an appointment via  +31 (0) 492 326800 or https://www.boekel.nl/afspraak/ 

Applying from outside the Netherlands

No DigiD? You can also authorise someone to apply for the birth certificate for you at the service desk.

Alternatively, you can apply for your birth certificate by post:

• Send a letter to the Burgerzaken department.
• In the letter, state your year of birth, name, address and what you need the certificate for.
• Sign the letter. Attach a copy of your valid identity document.

You pay a fee for this service. For more information, contact the municipality.

Applying in the Netherlands

You will receive the birth certificate by post after about 5 working days.

Applying from outside the Netherlands

The municipality will send the birth certificate to your address outside the Netherlands within a few weeks. The time taken by the postal service varies from country to country.

Objection

If you do not agree with this decision, you can submit a notice of objection. You need to do this within six weeks from the date on which the decision was sent.

You must send your notice of objection to:

Civil registrar

Postbus 99

5427 ZH Boekel

In the notice of objection you need to mention:

-       The date on which you write your notice;

-       Your name and address;

-       With which decision you disagree;

-       The reasons on which you disagree with the decision.

The notice of objection must bear you signature.

Submitting a notice of objection does not suspend the decision. This means the decision, against which you lodge a complaint, will have effect during the procedure of objection.

Urgent?

If you think the decision needs to be changed quickly to prevent irreversible consequences you can apply for provisional relief with the administrative court. This is an emergency procedure in which the judge can take measures to prevent irreversible consequences. To apply for provisional relief you need to pay a court fee. If you wish to apply for provisional relief you also need to send a letter to the preliminary relief judge of the Court ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Postbus 90125, 5200 MA ’s-Hertogenbosch.