15 Feb 2024
Now, UAE has started issuing birth certificates to babies with unknown fathers, as the first Arab country to recognize a single mother's right to register her kid in her name and the unknown father's baby's right to get a birth certificate.
In another UAE big forward step, a new UAE law that came into effect in October 2022 recognizes the right of the single mother to register her baby regardless of the parent's marital status and whether their father is known or not.
Birth certificates can now be issued to children whose fathers are unknown, following the implementation of the new UAE law.
The UAE President, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, issued the new federal law under decree number 10 of 2022 regulating the birth and death registry in the UAE (the "Law")
The law, enacted in October 2022, recognizes children's right to get birth certificates, and Mothers can now register these kids by submitting their papers to judicial authorities.
What are the procedures?
Under Article 11 of the law, the procedures to issue a new birth certificate to an unknown father's child shall be as follows:
- The Health institution shall issue a Birth Notification document only based on the mother's emirates Id or passport.
- The mother must apply to the Court declaring that she is the baby's mother and request an Issuance of a Birth certificate for her baby, fill out the mother's basic details, nationality, child's place of birth, name of the hospital, the reason for applying, and signature to declare they are the biological mother.
Along with the form, the mother must submit two required documents: a copy of her ID (EID or passport) and birth notification (issued by the hospital at the time of birth).
- Within a few days, the Court will issue a court order to the department of health to issue a birth certificate to the child
- The Department of Health Issue a birth certificate to the child based on the court order issued
"The all process is simple, quick and straightforward; the Court will issue an order within a few days and send a copy to the health department, which will then issue the birth certificate accordingly."
UAE is the first Arab country to recognize an unknown father child's right to get a birth certificate and a single mother's right to register her kid in her name.
The UAE is the first Arab country to recognize a mother's right to register the birth of an unknown father. Previously, only children born in a legal marriage were issued birth certificates in the UAE, as in other Arab countries. nevertheless, this has changed with the coming into force of the new law. Officials point out that the new law does not look at how the child was born; it cares more about the child's right to be recognized and get the proper documents and certificates for schooling and health care.
Conclusion:
We all witness UAE making significant steps forward to enhance its laws, regulations, and legal systems to make UAE the best place to live, educate, work, invest and run your business by providing nationals and residents with all possible means of comfort and legal and legislative ground platform necessary for flowering, growth, and development at all levels. We also have witnessed how UAE worked hard and continuously to improve the laws and regulations in the previous year; for example, UAE provides partners with no legitimate marriage relationship the right to issue birth certificates in their names only based on the father's declaration. In addition, now the new law gives the single mother and her child the right to obtain a birth certificate, so Children, regardless of how they're born, can enjoy, as all other children, the legal rights to go to school, get the proper medical care, and live their life without any discriminations.
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