Requirement of birth certificate for nationality application

@Aneesh That doesn't make sense, I went to Gementee last month to check with the required documents. They told me all is ok. I showed them the birth certificate from 5 years ago, they said its ok! Now I am confused and I supposedto apply after 2 months.

You need a fresh apostille and legalization

-@Aneesh

The legalization for birth certificate can be done in Belgium or it needs to be done in country of origin? also it needs to be translated too if it is in English?

@hssn601 you have to complete Legalization at home country and translation here in Belgium

When I applied, this is how I did it (or was asked to do).

Apostilled in home country, then translated (to FR) and legalized in Belgium.

@Aneesh That doesn't make sense, I went to Gementee last month to check with the required documents. They told me all is ok. I showed them the birth certificate from 5 years ago, they said its ok! Now I am confused and I supposedto apply after 2 months.
-@Waleedov

If geemente is ok, then fine (I believe) !

10 years ago we had to get a birth certificate for my wife (born in Japan).

it's (usually or always?) stamped with the date of extract out of the register

when we needed it again a few years ago, the gemeente claimed that the stamp date is only valid for 3 months, so we had to get a new one.

incredible that a birth certificate has a limited validity; you are only born once, right?

it might have changed now...

In my case, I had an apostilled and attested Birth Certificate from India, which is more than 9 years old. The lady at the city hall said it should suffice but the procedure she showed me literally said the certificate shouldn't be more than a year old with apostille. So, she said, its fine for her to accept it but said that I could be asked to get a fresh one further in the process. She told me to go ahead with what I have and they file the application and If I were to get fresh one during the application, then, told me to reach out to the embassy for a fresh attested document from the birth registrar and hopefully that should suffice. But, My application went through with that old birth certificate without issues and I got a positive response in the end. So, I am not 100% sure you need a fresh one. Although you would need a local language translated document, including the apostille information on the back of your certificate.

In my opinion, just follow your city hall suggestions/guidance.

incredible that a birth certificate has a limited validity; you are only born once, right?
it might have changed now...
-@pvanhemel

You're talking about the validity of the document and especially the signature/seal on it, not the content

Yeah... administration...