Which municipal documents must be issued as DUBLICATES and which as ORIGINALS for legalization?
The short answer is that a Bulgarian birth certificate or marriage certificate is normally presented as a duplicate once the first certificate has already been issued. Certificates of identity of names, marital or family status, kinship, heirs, or capacity to marry a foreign national are presented as current official documents issued by the competent municipality. “Original” and “duplicate” have a precise meaning for civil-status certificates. The birth or marriage act is the registration ...
