Birth Certificate Check Lists Name Change Only
Complete an original VS-23 Attach a Certified copy of your court order Mail documents along with payment Copy of original California birth certificate (if you have it) Gender Marker Change Only or Name and Gender Marker Change
Complete an original VS-24 Attach a Certified copy of your court order Mail documents along with payment Copy of original California birth certificate (if you have it)
Consular Report of Birth Abroad If you are a U.S. citizen born abroad, then your birth certificate is a Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA). The standard for changing your gender marker on your CRBA is the same as changing your gender marker on your Passport, which is discussed below on Pg. 39 of this guide. To learn more about changing the gender marker on a CRBA, visit the State Department’s website at http://travel.state.gov/law/info/overseas/overseas_703.html.
VI. United States Citizenship and Immigration Service Documents Few agencies have undergone as much turmoil with regard to identity documents policies in recent years as the immigration service. After decades of informally working well with transgender immigrants, the service began to implement strict and confusing policies about how people were supposed to change your immigration documents to match your gender identity. In 2004, the policy was fixed to match (more or less) the policies of other federal agencies.
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