Reconstruction of the birth certificate

Polish archival resources suffered significant losses during the two world wars as well as the border changes. The Germans and Russians deliberately destroyed and plundered Polish archives. Unfortunately, this means that sometimes, for example, old civil status records cannot be found. They are of great importance, among others in matters of inheritance and in matters of Polish citizenship. In one of the cases conducted by the Law Firm, the client’s birth certificate from 1932 could not be found. For this reason, we have submitted an application to the Registry Office to recreate the birth certificate. The Civil Registry Office refused to reproduce the certificate and therefore we brought the case to the court, which granted our application and issued a decision establishing the content of the birth certificate. On this basis, the Civil Registry Office will prepare a birth certificate.