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Dominican birth certificate from the US: JCE offices and fees

How to get a Dominican birth certificate from the US: JCE offices abroad, the 25.00 issuance fee, certified mail, and the two official office lists.

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Dominican birth certificate from the US: the JCE offices

The Dominican birth certificate (acta de nacimiento) is issued by the Junta Central Electoral (JCE), which runs the Civil Registry. From the United States you request it at a JCE Oficina de Servicios en el Exterior (OSE); several operate inside Dominican consulates. The OSE fee table sets 25.00 for issuance of a record and 20.00 for certified mail, in a table of fees in USD/EUR/CHF (JCE 2025 fees, checked October 3, 2026). The key constraint: on the official JCE pages we checked we found no official channel to order it online from abroad, so the procedure runs through those offices.

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Key facts

Item	Detail (checked October 3, 2026)
Issued by	Junta Central Electoral (JCE), Civil Registry
Where to request it in the US	JCE Oficinas de Servicios en el Exterior (OSE)
Issuance of a record	25.00 (OSE 2025 fee table, “TASAS EN USD/EUR/CHF”)
Certified mail	20.00 (same table)
Cost in the Dominican Republic, for comparison	RD$600 (JCE Civil Registry page)
Appointments	The JCE links its booking system: citas.jce.gob.do
Online ordering from abroad	We found no official channel on the JCE pages checked

Where the JCE offices are in the US (two official lists)

The JCE publishes two lists that do not match. One is the services-abroad page on jce.gob.do; the other is the list of cédula centers on the nuevacedula.jce.gob.do portal.

Office	Address (per jce.gob.do)	On the jce.gob.do list?	On the nuevacedula list?
New York	1501 Broadway, Suite 410, New York, NY 10036 (Consulate General)	Yes	Yes
New Jersey	140 Market Street, Fl 1, Paterson, NJ 07505	Yes	Yes
Boston	891 Centre St. Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 (Consulate)	Yes	Yes
Washington D.C.	1715 22nd Street, NW Washington, DC 20008 (Embassy)	Yes	Yes
Philadelphia	1500 John F. Kennedy Blvd., second floor (Consulate General)	Yes	Yes
Los Angeles	500 North Brand Blvd. Suite 960, Glendale, CA 91203 (Consulate General)	Yes	Yes
Puerto Rico	Ave. Ponce de León, Edif. Cobians Plaza, 1607 Suite 101, San Juan, PR 00909	Yes	Yes
Miami	1038 Brickell Ave., Miami, FL 33131	Yes	Yes
Chicago (satellite)	8770 West Bryn Mawr Ave, Suite 1300	Yes	Yes
Long Island (fixed point)	60 Guy Lombardo Ave, Freeport	Yes	Yes
Houston (fixed point)	6117 Richmond Avenue, Suite 100	Yes	Yes
Bronx (satellite)	305 E. Fordham Road, 2do. nivel (second level)	Yes	No
Perth Amboy, New Jersey	The nuevacedula list gives no address	No	Yes
Allentown, Pennsylvania	1710 Union Blvd (per nuevacedula)	No	Yes

The nuevacedula list is a list of cédula centers; it does not say whether every one of them issues birth records. Before going to Perth Amboy, Allentown or the Bronx, confirm with the JCE which services that site offers. The JCE’s Boston office is in Jamaica Plain, which is not the address MIREX lists for the Boston Consulate General.

New York office contact, per jce.gob.do: 646-684-3158 / 646-684-3164, New_York@jce.do. For hours, the nuevacedula list gives New York as “Lunes a viernes: 8:00 a.m. a 6:00 p.m. Sábados: 9:00 a.m. a 3:00 p.m.” (Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.). For the other offices, see the official JCE list.

Step by step

Choose the office from the table above.
Book an appointment if needed. The jce.gob.do menu links “Agendar cita para servicios” to https://citas.jce.gob.do/. We could not read that system’s content, so we do not know which services it offers at each office.
Request issuance of the record. The OSE fee table sets 25.00 (2025 fees in USD/EUR/CHF, checked October 3, 2026). The JCE pages we checked do not list the documents the office abroad asks for to issue a record; ask when you book.
If you need it mailed, the same table sets 20.00 for certified mail.

Which records can be issued at any office

The JCE help page explains: “Si el acta de nacimiento se encuentra automatizada (tiene # de evento) puede solicitarla en cualquier Oficialía del Estado Civil … En caso de que su acta no esté automatizada debe acudir a la Oficialía del Estado Civil donde fue hecha su declaración de nacimiento” — an automated record (one with an event number) can be requested at any civil registry office; a non-automated one only at the office where the birth was declared. That answer refers to registry offices inside the Dominican Republic; it does not say whether the same applies to the offices abroad. If your record is old, confirm with the JCE office before you go.

What it is accepted for

A passport at the New York consulate. Its passport page asks for ‘Acta de Nacimiento con el Código QR’ (a birth record with a QR code), per the New York consulate’s page checked October 23, 2026. See renewing a Dominican passport in the US.
An apostille. The MIREX table lists, for civil-registry records, “Actas con nuevo formato y código QR”. See apostille of Dominican documents.
A minor’s carta de ruta. MIREX asks for the child’s birth record with a QR code. See Dominican carta de ruta.

Don’t confuse a Dominican record with a US one

If your child was born in the United States, the birth certificate is a US record, not a JCE record: the New York consulate’s apostille page describes it as issued by ’la autoridad competente del lugar donde ocurrió el nacimiento’ (the competent authority of the place of birth). To order it, see vital records by state. To record the child in the Dominican Civil Registry, see registering a US-born child in the Dominican Republic.

Beware of private websites

On the official JCE pages we checked, we found no official channel to order records online from abroad. Private websites selling “Dominican birth certificates” are not the JCE. Use the official offices in the table above.

Your US immigration status

The JCE pages we checked do not ask for US immigration documents for their services. If you need the record for a US immigration case, talk to a lawyer: see find pro bono legal help.

Official sources

Junta Central Electoral — Tasas por servicios, Oficinas de Servicios en el Exterior (2025): http://jce.gob.do/Portals/0/TasasServiciosOSE2025.pdf
Junta Central Electoral — Services abroad (offices): https://jce.gob.do/Servicos-Exterior
Junta Central Electoral — Centers abroad (new cédula): https://nuevacedula.jce.gob.do/conoce-tu-cedula/centros-en-el-exterior
Junta Central Electoral — ¿Dónde puedo solicitar mi acta de nacimiento?: https://ayuda.jce.gob.do/kb/a42/donde-puedo-solicitar-mi-acta-de-nacimiento.aspx
Junta Central Electoral — Civil Registry services and requirements: https://jce.gob.do/Servicios-y-Requisitos-Registro-Civil
Consulate General in New York — Pasaportes: https://usa.mirex.gob.do/consular/new-york/pasaportes/

Last verified: 2026-10-03. General procedural information for educational purposes. Fees and the office list were checked on October 3, 2026 and may change. Verify directly with the Junta Central Electoral. Not legal advice.

Frequently asked questions

How do I get my Dominican birth certificate if I live in the United States?

The Junta Central Electoral (JCE) runs Oficinas de Servicios en el Exterior in the US, several inside Dominican consulates. Its fee table lists ‘Expedición de acta’ (issuance of a record) at 25.00 and ‘Envío por correo certificado’ (certified mail) at 20.00, in a table of fees in USD/EUR/CHF checked October 3, 2026.

How much does a birth certificate cost at a JCE office in the US?

25.00 for issuance and 20.00 if sent by certified mail, per the JCE fee table for its offices abroad (2025, fees in USD/EUR/CHF), checked October 3, 2026. In the Dominican Republic, the JCE Civil Registry page lists an issuance cost of RD$600.

Where are the JCE offices in the United States?

The JCE’s services-abroad page lists offices in New York (1501 Broadway), New Jersey (Paterson), Boston (Jamaica Plain), Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles (Glendale), San Juan and Miami; satellite offices in the Bronx and Chicago; and fixed points in Long Island (Freeport) and Houston. The new-cédula portal’s list of centers adds Perth Amboy and Allentown and leaves out the Bronx.

Is a record from a JCE office in the US accepted for a passport?

Yes, at the New York consulate. Its passport page asks for a birth record with a QR code (checked October 23, 2026).

Can I order a Dominican birth certificate online?

On the official JCE pages checked on October 3, 2026 we found no official channel for ordering records online from abroad. Private websites selling records are not the JCE.

Can any office issue my record?

The JCE help page says that if the record is automated (it has an event number) it can be requested at any Oficialía del Estado Civil; if not, you must go to the Oficialía where the birth was declared. That page refers to registry offices in the Dominican Republic; confirm with the JCE office in the US whether it can issue yours.

Do I need the QR-code version to get an apostille?

MIREX’s prior-legalization table lists, for civil-registry records, ‘Actas con nuevo formato y código QR’ (new-format records with a QR code). See the guide to apostilling Dominican documents on this site.

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