Vital Records Application Form (Page 5 of 5) in pdf

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Our office does not accept the Matricula Consular and/or the Mexican Electoral Cards as a form of valid identification

because:

♦ The Mexican consulate that issues the Matricula Consular does not authenticate the documents used to

obtain it. The issuing consulate does not verify the source documents.

♦ The issuing consulate does not compare the documents to computerized data files administered by the

government of the United Mexican States.

♦ The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service do not recognize the Matricula Consular as proper

identification.

♦ According to testimony before the U.S. Congress, the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of

investigation have concluded that the Martricula Consular is not a reliable form of identification.

♦ The Matricula Consular is issued on the day it is requested, with visual inspection of supporting

documents presented by the 47 Mexican consulates, but no independent verification of the identity of the

requestor.

It is the conclusion of DSHS / VSU that the Martricula Consular identity cards are not secure enough to meet the standards

that this agency requires under the authority vested in it by the statutes of the State of Texas and the administrative rules

adopted to implement them. Therefore, we cannot accept the Matricula Consular as verification of identity for the purchase

of birth or death certificates or for obtaining confidential records.

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