New Jersey Birth Certificate
Apostille for OCI
A New Jersey birth certificate is apostilled by New Jersey Division of Revenue & Enterprise Services in Trenton — the state that issued it, never Washington DC and never the state you live in now. The fee is$25 per document and the typical turnaround is roughly 12–20 business days. Since 30 December 2024 this apostille is mandatory on any US birth certificate used in an OCI application.
Our price: from $99 all-in delivered within the USA, or $149 all-in couriered to India — government fee, handling and shipping in one flat number, confirmed before you ship anything.
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| Apostille authority | New Jersey Division of Revenue & Enterprise Services, Trenton |
| Government fee | $25 per document |
| Typical turnaround | Roughly 12–20 business days |
| County pre-authentication | No |
| Certified copy comes from | New Jersey Department of Health, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry in Trenton, or the local registrar of the municipality of birth. |
| Apostille format for OCI | Physical paper apostille — VFS Global does not accept e-apostilles |
Fee and turnaround verified mid-2026 — state fees and processing times change, so we reconfirm on the issuing office's official website before quoting.
The New Jersey Quirk Worth Knowing
New Jersey carries the highest apostille fee of the states in this table at $25, and the queue in Trenton runs to several weeks — but there is no county pre-authentication step, so the chain itself is simple. The mistake we see in New Jersey files is the short-form certification: order the long-form copy that shows both parents' names, because OCI processing needs the parentage.
Edison, Jersey City and the Route 1 corridor form the densest Indian-American concentration in the country, and New Jersey birth certificates show up in OCI files filed from every Indian metro. Many of these families also need a US naturalization certificate apostilled in the same application — a federal document that takes a completely different route.
How We Handle a New Jersey File From India
Confirm the certificate
Send photos on WhatsApp. We check it is the certified long form with the registrar's signature and seal — the version OCI processing needs — before anything moves.
Certified copy to our US address
New Jersey Department of Health, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry in Trenton, or the local registrar of the municipality of birth. Where you do not already hold a certified copy, we guide the order so it ships directly to our US processing address.
Submission to Trenton
We submit to New Jersey Division of Revenue & Enterprise Services by tracked mail, with India named as the destination country and the physical paper apostille explicitly requested rather than an e-apostille. Add a mailing leg each way to the office turnaround above when you plan your dates.
Apostilled original to India
You get a photo of the attached apostille before dispatch, then the original ships to your Indian address with tracking. At VFS you hand in a self-attested photocopy and keep the original.
The full seven-step process, the myths that cause rejections, and the line-item cost breakdown live on the mainOCI birth certificate apostille guide.
New Jersey — Common Questions
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Our child was born in Edison but we need the naturalization certificate apostilled too. Same office?
Born in a Different State?
The apostille always comes from the issuing state. If the certificate says a different state, start there:
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