Registration of birth in the Population Register System

Births of Finnish citizens outside Finland must be notified to the Digital and Population Data Agency(Link to another website.) (Opens New Window). You can also submit the notification at a Finnish embassy or send it there to be posted to the Local Register Office for registration.

Birth certificates issued by an EU country are accepted without requiring that a so-called apostille(Link to another website.) (Opens New Window) be attached to the document.

In other countries the original birth certificate or a copy of it, authenticated at a mission of Finland, must be appended to the notification. The document must be legalised(Link to another website.) (Opens New Window) and, if it has been issued in some other language than Finnish, Swedish or English, an authorised translation in one of these languages must be provided. Translations made abroad must be legalised. Translations made by an authorised translator in Finland are valid as such.

An Apostille stamp is not required for a birth certificate, which is issued by an EU country authority and a translation of the certificate is not needed if a multilingual standard form is appended to the document.

Singapore (FI, SV, EN)

FI:
Käy laillistamassa syntymätodistus Singapore Academy of Law'ssa. https://legalisation.sal.sg/ Huom! Laillistus pitää tehdä alkuperäiseen dokumenttiin, ei valokopioon. Jos syntymätodistus on annettu vain sähköisenä, printtaa ja laillista todistus. 

Täytä ja allekirjoita Digi- ja Väestötietoviraston lomake "Ilmoitus ulkomailla syntyneestä lapsesta". https://dvv.fi/lomakkeet

Pyydä asiakaspalveluaikaa edustustosta sähköpostitse, [email protected]

Tule käymään suurlähetystössä sovittuna aikana. Ota mukaan laillistettu syntymätodistus, DVV:n lomake ja molempien vanhempien passit.

SV:
Legalisera födelseattest hos Singapore Academy of Law. https://legalisation.sal.sg/ Obs! Legalisering av originaldokumentet, inte av en kopia.  Om födelseintyget har utfärdats endast i elektronisk form skriv ut det och legalisera intyget.

Fyll i och underteckna Digitalisering- och befolkningsdata myndighetens blankett “Anmälan om barn som fötts utomlands”. https://dvv.fi/sv/blanketter

Boka tid hos ambassaden per e-post till [email protected]

Vid besöket på ambassaden vid den överenskomna tiden tag med det legaliserade födelseattest, den ifyllda DVV -blanketten och båda föräldrarnas pass.

EN:
Legalize the birth certificate at Singapore Academy of Law. https://legalisation.sal.sg/ Please note that legalization must be done on an original document, not on a photocopy. If the birth certificate has been given in e-format, print it and have it legalized.  

Fill and sign Digital and Population Data Services Agency's form "Notification of child born outside Finland". https://dvv.fi/en/forms

Request for an appointment at the embassy by email, [email protected]

Bring legalized birth certificate, filled form and passport from both parents.