Marriage Registration in Seemapuri, Delhi (2026): Shahdara Is Now a Sub-Division — and What Your Marriage Record Really Means for Your Children’s Papers

Quick answer: If you live in New or Old Seemapuri, Dilshad Garden, Nand Nagri, Sunder Nagri or Jhilmil, there is something to know before you go anywhere: Shahdara is no longer a district. Under the reorganisation effective 1 January 2026, Delhi has 13 districts and 39 sub-divisions, and Shahdara is now a sub-division of the North East district, alongside Karawal Nagar, Gokal Puri and Yamuna Vihar. Every guide and form still saying “SDM Seemapuri, Shahdara District” is out of date, including the earlier version of this page — and your existing certificate is completely unaffected. This guide covers all the marriage routes properly, and then answers the question that actually brings families here: what your marriage record has to do with your children’s paperwork — birth registration, school admission, Aadhaar, a passport — including the big myth that a marriage certificate is needed to register a birth (it is not), and the reassurance nobody gives: your child’s legitimacy does not depend on your marriage being registered. Marriage registration: ₹6,000.

Last reviewed: 23 September 2026 · 38 min read

Seemapuri at a Glance

Seemapuri sits at Delhi's eastern edge, where the city runs into Ghaziabad. New Seemapuri and Old Seemapuri were laid out as resettlement colonies, and Nand Nagri, Sunder Nagri, Dilshad Garden and the Jhilmil industrial pocket grew around them. Households here are large, young and mostly working in the informal economy, and a very high share of the families who come to us have children already.

That last fact is what shapes this guide. In a colony of salaried couples, people ask about the wedding. Here, the question that actually arrives on the phone is about a child — a birth certificate that will not come, a school asking for papers, a form that wants the parents' marriage details, a passport application for a son going abroad to work.

So the second half of this page is written for that. It sets out what the law really requires for a child's records, corrects the single most damaging myth in this neighbourhood, and says plainly where a marriage certificate genuinely matters for a child — and where it does not, so that nobody sells you a document you do not need.

Shahdara Is No Longer a District

Delhi's district map has changed twice in recent memory. Nine districts became eleven in 2012, when Shahdara and South East were created. From 1 January 2026 the map was redrawn again into 13 districts and 39 sub-divisions — and in that new arrangement Shahdara appears as a sub-division of the North East district, not as a district of its own. The North East district's four sub-divisions are Karawal Nagar, Gokal Puri, Yamuna Vihar and Shahdara.

“Seemapuri” is not the name of a sub-division in the new list. Addresses here are allotted to whichever sub-division covers them, and in this belt — where Seemapuri, Nand Nagri, Sunder Nagri, Dilshad Garden and the Shahdara side run into one another — that is not something to work out from a colony name.

Which Office Registers Your Marriage

• The SDM / Registrar of Marriages registers a marriage under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 or the Delhi (Compulsory Registration of Marriage) Order, 2014. This office issues the certificate everyone else acts on.
• The Marriage Officer handles the Special Marriage Act, 1954: notice, thirty-day display, objections, solemnisation and certificate.
• The Arya Samaj mandir or the qazi performs and records the ceremony and issues its own certificate or nikahnama. Neither is a government marriage certificate.
• Births and deaths are a different office again — registered by the municipal authority for your area under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, not by the SDM. Families mix these up constantly and lose days going to the wrong counter.

Jurisdiction for a marriage follows where you live. Seemapuri is on the Delhi–Uttar Pradesh boundary, so couples where one side lives in Ghaziabad, Loni or Sahibabad should settle this before anybody takes a day off work; our Karawal Nagar guide deals with Delhi–UP couples in detail.

The Legal Routes

Arya Samaj Wedding Plus Registration

An Arya Samaj wedding is a Vedic ceremony performed by a pandit — havan, vows, pheras. The Arya Marriage Validation Act, 1937 recognises the validity of a marriage solemnised in that form between persons professing the Arya Samaj faith, and it is available to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists. The mandir issues its certificate the same day.

The step that produces the document the world acts on is registration under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 at the SDM office — a separate application with its own forms, fee and appointment. The mandir certificate does not replace it, and a school, a bank or a passport office will not accept it instead.

Nikah and the Delhi 2014 Order

A nikah is a valid marriage under Muslim personal law when the essentials are satisfied: an adult bride and groom, free consent, offer and acceptance in one sitting, witnesses, and mahr settled on the bride. The nikahnama records it.

For a government certificate, the marriage is registered under the Delhi (Compulsory Registration of Marriage) Order, 2014: within 60 days; the next 60 days on payment of ₹500; after that a ₹1,000 penalty — and registration remains possible however late, while both spouses are alive. Our fee is ₹6,000.

If the nikahnama is handwritten, in Urdu, worn out or lost, or the qazi has died, that is dealt with in detail in our Seelampur guide — it is a common situation in this belt and it is almost always solvable.

The Special Marriage Act, Step by Step

A civil marriage: nobody converts, nobody performs a religious ceremony, and the marriage is valid whatever either family believes.

1. Residence. At least one party must have resided in the district for 30 days before the notice.
2. Notice in writing to the Marriage Officer of the district.
3. Public display for 30 days. A requirement of the Act, which nobody can lawfully shorten or hide.
4. Objections only on a ground the Act recognises — a party under age, a living spouse, a prohibited degree of relationship. Family disapproval is not a legal objection.
5. Solemnisation before the Marriage Officer with three witnesses.
6. Certificate issued and signed.

Budget about sixty days. Note that the public notice applies only to this Act — a nikah registered under the 2014 Order and an Arya Samaj wedding registered under the Hindu Marriage Act involve no public notice at all.

Registering a Marriage Held Years Ago

This is the commonest job we do for families here, and it is usually straightforward even when the wedding was twenty years ago.

What helps the application:

• the wedding invitation card, if one survives, and photographs of the ceremony;
• a certificate from the mandir, pandit or qazi, or an extract from the qazi's register, where obtainable;
• both parties' age proof, identity proof and current address proof;
• affidavits from both spouses stating the date, place and fact of the marriage;
• your children's birth certificates and school records naming both parents — in this neighbourhood these are often the strongest evidence a family has, because they were created over years by independent offices;
• the ration card showing the household together;
• two witnesses who genuinely know you as a married couple — a neighbour of twenty years is worth far more than a convenient stranger.

Late registration attracts the 2014 Order's fees noted above, which are paid to the government, not to us. Our fee is ₹6,000.

First, the Reassurance Nobody Gives You

We start here because of how often this fear is used against families in this neighbourhood, usually by somebody who wants to be paid to fix a problem that does not exist. Please understand the position clearly:

• Registration is evidence of a marriage, not the marriage itself. What registration gives you is proof that is easy to produce — a single document that an office accepts without argument.
• The law is protective of children, not punitive. Under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, children of marriages that are void or voidable are treated as legitimate, and in 2023 the Supreme Court further held that such children are entitled to a share in their parents' property, within the limits the section lays down. The direction of the law has been to protect the child, consistently.
• The same protective approach runs through personal laws and through the Constitution. A child is not punished for the circumstances of their parents' marriage.
• So register for the paperwork, not out of shame. You are not repairing anything. You are making your family's life easier at counters for the next fifty years.

If somebody has told your family that a child's records are in danger because the marriage was never registered, call us and ask before you pay anybody anything. That call is free.

The Myth That Costs Families Here the Most

We put this in a box because of how much damage it does. A family is told at a counter, or by a neighbour, or by a person standing outside an office, that the baby's certificate cannot be issued because the parents have no marriage certificate. They then either give up — leaving the birth unregistered, which creates a real problem for the child's whole life — or pay somebody a large sum to “arrange” it.

What to do instead:

• Register the birth, on time, with whatever you have. The hospital or the municipal office will tell you the form; the particulars asked for are the child's and the parents', not a marriage document.
• If you are refused, ask for the reason in writing. A refusal that cannot be written down is usually a refusal that cannot be justified.
• Escalate within the system. The registrar has a superior; the municipal authority has a grievance route. Use it before you use your wallet.
• Do the marriage registration too — but as a separate, sensible thing for the reasons in this section, not because somebody frightened you at a counter.

Registering a Birth: the Real Rules

Births in India are registered under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969. In Delhi the registering authority is the municipal body for your area — for most of this belt, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi — and the system has been progressively digitised, including under the amendments made in 2023.

• A hospital birth is normally reported by the hospital, which gives you a slip or a reference. You still collect the certificate from the municipal authority or its portal — the hospital slip is not the birth certificate.
• Take several copies at the outset. School admission, Aadhaar, passport, a scheme and a bank account will each want one.
• Check the spelling of both parents' names on it against your Aadhaar before you leave. This single check prevents years of trouble, because this certificate will be produced for the next two decades.
• Procedures, fees and forms change, and the 2023 amendments changed how the system works. Check the current position with the municipal authority or on its portal rather than relying on what a cousin did in 2014.

Late Birth Registration

Very common here, particularly for children born at home or born before the family moved to Delhi, and for adults who discover in their twenties that they were never registered at all.

It is not a dead end. The route depends on how long ago the birth was, as the table above sets out, and for anything over a year it normally means a magistrate's order — which is a proper application, not a favour.

What helps:

• the hospital record or discharge slip, if there was one;
• the school leaving or transfer certificate, which for older children and adults is often the only contemporaneous record of a date of birth;
• an immunisation or health card;
• the ration card and Aadhaar entries showing the child in the household;
• affidavits from the parents, and from somebody who can speak to the birth;
• a non-availability certificate from the registrar, where the authority requires one.

Two warnings. Do not let anybody produce a back-dated certificate — it is a forgery, it fails when tested, and the consequences land on the child. And do not accept an incorrect date of birth because it is quicker; that date will follow the child through every examination, job application and pension of their life.

Births at Home

A birth at home is registered like any other birth. What differs is the reporting: there is no hospital to report it, so the responsibility sits with the head of the household, and the authority will normally want supporting material — an ASHA or health worker's record, an immunisation card, an affidavit, and the particulars of whoever attended.

Register it inside the 21 days if you possibly can. A home birth registered late is the commonest reason a child in this neighbourhood starts school without a birth certificate, and although the RTE Act protects that child's admission, every later step — Aadhaar, a scholarship, a passport, a job form — is harder without it.

Adding the Child's Name Later

Many families register a birth before the naming, so the certificate is issued without the child's name. This is normal and the Act provides for the name to be entered afterwards, within the period prescribed by the rules.

• Do it as early as you can. The process is simple while the entry is recent and becomes a longer application once the period has passed.
• Decide the spelling once, and then use exactly that spelling on the Aadhaar, the school record and everything else. A child whose name is spelled three ways across three documents is a teenager who cannot get a passport without an affidavit.
• Get a fresh certificate showing the name once it is entered, and keep copies.

Correcting a Birth Certificate

Clerical errors are common, especially on older certificates and where names were written from speech.

A correction is applied for to the authority that holds the register, with an affidavit and the documents that prove the correct particulars. As with a marriage certificate, fix the identity documents first and then use them to support the correction — going the other way round produces an application that cannot be granted. And as always: never let anybody alter a certificate with a pen.

School Admission and the RTE Act

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 gives every child aged six to fourteen the right to free and compulsory education, and it contains two provisions that families in this belt should know by heart because they are used against them constantly.

What that means in practice, at a school gate:

• “No birth certificate, no admission” is not the law. Take whatever you have — hospital record, immunisation card, an affidavit, an anganwadi record — and ask for any refusal in writing.
• “Show the parents' marriage certificate” is not a requirement of the RTE Act for admission to a school. If a school insists, ask on what authority, in writing.
• A refusal you can take somewhere is a refusal on paper. Without it you have nothing to escalate.
• Escalate to the Directorate of Education for a school in Delhi, and use its grievance route. This is what it exists for.
• Do get the birth certificate anyway. The Act protects the admission; it does not make the rest of the child's life easier. Every later step wants that certificate.

EWS and Disadvantaged-Group Seats

Under section 12(1)(c) of the RTE Act, private unaided schools reserve a share of entry-level seats — a quarter — for children from economically weaker sections and disadvantaged groups, admitted free of charge. In Delhi this is run as an online process by the Directorate of Education, with a draw of lots.

What families get wrong, in our experience:

• The documents are about the child and the household, typically including proof of residence, proof of the child's age or date of birth, and an income or category certificate as the process requires. Get the income and residence documents ready months before the window opens, because the window is short and does not wait.
• The address on every document should match. A residence proof in the father's name at one address and an Aadhaar at another is the commonest reason an application is rejected.
• Apply through the official portal only. Nobody can improve your chances in a lottery, and anybody offering a guaranteed seat for money is taking it.
• Requirements and dates change every cycle. Check the Directorate's own notification for the current year rather than last year's list.

We do not handle school admissions and we earn nothing from any of this — it is on the page because it is the second thing families here ask about after the marriage itself.

Aadhaar for a Child

A child can be enrolled for Aadhaar from birth. For young children no biometrics are captured; the enrolment is linked to a parent's Aadhaar, and biometrics are captured later at the prescribed ages — a mandatory update that families routinely forget, after which the Aadhaar can stop working at exactly the wrong moment.

• What is normally needed: the child's birth certificate, or in some cases the hospital discharge document, plus one parent's Aadhaar and their presence.
• Do the mandatory biometric updates at the ages UIDAI prescribes. Put a reminder somewhere.
• Spell the name exactly as on the birth certificate. This is the document from which the school record, the board certificate and eventually the passport will be filled.
• Check requirements on uidai.gov.in or at an Aadhaar Seva Kendra before you go; they change.

A Child's Passport

This is where a marriage record does start to matter, and it is worth understanding before a son or daughter needs to travel for work.

• A minor's passport application involves both parents' particulars, and the ordinary course is that both parents consent, which is done through the prescribed annexure.
• Where one parent's consent cannot be obtained — a parent who has died, who is not traceable, or where the parents are separated — the system provides for that through different annexures and additional documents. It is a known situation with a known route; it is not a wall.
• Where the parents' particulars or names differ across documents, that mismatch has to be bridged, and a registered marriage certificate is one of the cleanest ways to do it.
• Police verification applies as prescribed, and the address consistency point from below matters here more than anywhere.
• Requirements change. Check the current document advisor on passportindia.gov.in before assembling anything, rather than following a list from a forum.

If the passport is for work abroad, read our apostille and visa guide before starting anything, because the order in which the certificate, the apostille and the application are done decides whether it takes six weeks or six months.

Single Mothers

We are asked this often enough, and by people who have been given very poor information, that it deserves its own section.

• A birth is registrable. The Act records a birth; a mother is not required to produce a husband in order to register her child.
• The Supreme Court has addressed the position of an unwed mother in a 2015 judgment, holding that she could be appointed the sole guardian of her child without notice to the putative father, and dealing with the issue of a birth certificate being issued on her own affidavit. It is a protective line of authority, and an advocate can apply it to your facts.
• A widow is in a different position again, and the husband's death certificate together with evidence of the marriage carries the record forward.
• Nobody at a counter is entitled to humiliate you, and a refusal should be asked for in writing.
• Take an advocate for a guardianship application. This is court work, it is not ours, and it should not be attempted through an agent.

Guardianship: Who Decides for a Minor

Families assume this is obvious and it is not, and it matters the moment a minor's property, a bank account or a passport is involved.

• Under the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956, the father is the natural guardian of a Hindu minor and after him the mother, and custody of a child below five is ordinarily with the mother. In 1999 the Supreme Court read that provision so that the mother is not excluded from acting as natural guardian merely because the father is alive — the word “after” was construed as covering the father's absence or inability to act, not only his death.
• Personal laws differ on guardianship and custody, and the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 provides the general machinery for appointing a guardian through the court.
• In every case, the welfare of the child is the paramount consideration. That is the principle courts apply.
• This is advocate territory, not ours. We set it out because a family that knows the question exists asks it at the right time, rather than discovering it during a property sale.

Girl-Child Schemes and Accounts

Two things worth doing early, both of which turn on documents this page has been discussing:

• Sukanya Samriddhi Account — a small savings account for a girl child, opened at a post office or bank while she is young, with the birth certificate and the guardian's documents. The interest and terms are set by the government and change; the point is to open it early, because the deposit period runs from opening.
• Delhi's Ladli scheme for girl children, with its own conditions as to residence, registration of the birth and schooling. Apply through the official route, and note that registering the birth on time is usually a condition — another reason the 21-day window matters.

As with everything in this half of the page: check the current conditions on the official portal, and never pay an agent for a free enrolment.

Where the Marriage Certificate Genuinely Matters for a Child

Having spent several sections telling you where it is not required, here is the honest list of where it is worth having — because we would rather you register for a real reason than a frightening one.

And here is what it is not needed for: registering a birth, admitting a child to school under the RTE Act, enrolling a child for Aadhaar, or making your child legitimate. If somebody tells you otherwise, ask them to show you the rule.

Address Proof in a Resettlement Colony

New and Old Seemapuri were laid out as resettlement colonies, and much of the surrounding belt grew the same way — small plots, added floors, and ownership papers that do not always match how a house is actually occupied. Offices still need to know where you live.

• Aadhaar with the current address is the strongest and simplest. If nothing is in your own name, UIDAI's Head-of-Family based update exists for exactly that, using a relative's Aadhaar and proof of the relationship.
• Voter ID with the Delhi address, which a great many households here already hold.
• Ration card showing the family together — useful twice over, because it is also evidence of the household when registering an old marriage.
• Bank passbook or statement carrying the address, with the bank's stamp.
• Electricity or water connection in your own name. A landlord's bill is not your proof, however long you have lived there.
• Keep the whole chain of allotment and possession papers for a resettlement plot, even old ones from bodies that have since been reorganised. In any later mutation the chain is the case.

Make every document agree. Aadhaar, ration card, voter ID, the children's school records and the birth certificates should all tell the same story about where the family lives. That consistency is what makes an EWS application, a passport verification or a scheme claim go through first time. What we will not do is manufacture an address you do not live at.

If Your Families Oppose

• Two consenting adults may marry. The Supreme Court has said so repeatedly; under the Special Marriage Act, disapproval is not a ground of objection.
• An objection must be on a legal ground — a party under age, a living spouse, a prohibited degree. A false objection delays you; it does not defeat you.
• Protection is available. A couple who fear for their safety can approach the High Court, and the police have a duty to act. Women's helpline 181, emergency 112.
• Keep copies of your documents outside the house, and never let a relative hold your originals.
• If the thirty-day notice is the danger, check first whether the Special Marriage Act is really your only route — for many couples here it is not.

Everything you tell us is confidential: we do not call families, we do not confirm to any caller that you are our client, and we do not discuss one couple with another. Our Privacy Policy sets it out, and our Kanjhawala guide carries a full safety plan.

Age

Under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 the minimum age is 21 for the groom and 18 for the bride. We do not arrange, document or register a marriage below that, in any circumstances, for any family, at any price, and we do not proceed where a document appears to have been altered. This is the one place where we will lose a booking rather than bend, and we say so openly. If you are waiting for a birthday, wait for it and come back.

Witnesses

A witness must be an adult who genuinely knows you, carries original photo identity and address proof, and attends in person. Two for an Arya Samaj ceremony, witnesses at the SDM appointment, and three for solemnisation under the Special Marriage Act.

For registering an old marriage — which is most of the work here — the witnesses carry real weight, because the office wants people who can say they know you as a married couple. Detail in our witness guide.

Documents Checklist

At the Appointment

• Both parties in person; witnesses with original ID. No proxies, and no power of attorney for a marriage.
• Reach early. Carry originals, one photocopy set, and a photo of every document on your phone.
• Check the certificate before you leave the counter — both names and their exact spellings, both fathers' names, the date of the marriage, the place, both dates of birth. A correction on the spot takes a minute; later it is a fresh application and a ₹2,500 job.
• Check that the spellings match your children's birth certificates too. That is the pairing every future counter will compare.
• Photograph it, email a copy to yourself and to one relative, and write the registration number and date on a separate note kept elsewhere.

What It Costs

Government charges — the 2014 Order's ₹500 late fee and ₹1,000 penalty where they apply, stamp paper, notary, photographs, courier — are separate, paid at the rate actually charged on the day, and shown separately on your receipt. We confirm one written figure before we begin and we do not add to it afterwards.

We do not handle birth certificates, school admissions or scheme enrolments, and we earn nothing from any of them. Those sections are on this page because families here are given bad information about them, not because we are selling anything. If somebody offers you a package covering all of it for one large fee, that is the moment to say no.

Timeline

Getting There

Seemapuri, Dilshad Garden and Jhilmil are served by the Red Line, with Shahdara and Welcome as the usual interchange points, and for almost every office visit in this belt the Metro plus a short auto is faster and cheaper than driving. Go early in the day.

If your witnesses lose a day's earning by coming with you, tell them the night before exactly what to bring and where to meet, so nobody loses the day twice. That single message is worth more than any other planning advice on this page.

Common Mistakes

1. Believing a marriage certificate is needed to register a birth. It is not, and this myth does more damage here than any other.
2. Leaving a birth unregistered after being refused once, instead of asking for the refusal in writing and escalating.
3. Missing the 21-day window and then leaving it for years, when it becomes a magistrate's order.
4. Accepting a wrong date of birth because it is quicker. That date follows the child for life.
5. Letting a school say “no documents, no admission” without knowing that the RTE Act says otherwise.
6. Not doing the child's mandatory Aadhaar biometric updates, so the Aadhaar stops working during an exam or an application.
7. Different spellings of a parent's name on the marriage certificate, the birth certificate and the school record.
8. Assuming the mandir certificate or nikahnama is the government certificate.
9. Leaving an old marriage unregistered until a passport, a visa or a claim depends on it.
10. Paying an agent for a school seat, a scheme enrolment or a “guaranteed” anything.
11. Letting anybody back-date or alter a certificate.
12. Leaving the counter without reading the certificate.

Six Local Situations

1. “No marriage certificate, no birth certificate.” A family told exactly that at a counter, who then went to a person outside the office and were quoted a large sum. The requirement did not exist. They registered the birth with the ordinary particulars, and separately registered their 2011 marriage a month later — for the right reasons, and for ₹6,000.

2. The marriage the children proved. Married in 2004, never registered, no wedding card, no photographs that survived a flooded room. What carried the application was the children's birth certificates and school records naming both parents, the ration card, and two neighbours of nineteen years. One appointment.

3. Born at home in 2009. No hospital record, no registration, discovered when the boy needed documents for a course. Late registration through the proper route, supported by the school transfer certificate and an immunisation card, with an affidavit. Slower than anybody wanted, and entirely possible.

4. Three spellings, one passport. A father's name written one way on his Aadhaar, another on his son's birth certificate and a third on the school record. The passport application stopped. Sorted with a “one and the same person” affidavit and the marriage certificate — and it would have been avoided entirely by one check at a counter years earlier.

5. The EWS window that closed. A family who began collecting the income and residence documents after the online window opened, and missed it by four days. Nothing to do with marriage at all. It is on this page because we have watched it happen three years running.

6. The widow with no registration. Husband died in 2022; married in 1999, never registered. Registration is not possible after a death, so the marriage had to be established separately for the pension, the bank and the plot — and one office sent her for a legal heir certificate. Every family in this belt with an unregistered marriage should read that sentence twice.

Checklist

1. Marriage registered — not just the ceremony, the mandir certificate or the nikahnama.
2. Every child's birth registered, with the name entered and the parents' spellings checked.
3. Parents' names spelled identically across marriage certificate, birth certificates, Aadhaar and school records.
4. Several copies of each birth certificate and of the marriage certificate.
5. Registration numbers and dates written on a separate note.
6. Children's Aadhaar done, with the mandatory biometric updates diarised.
7. Address consistent across Aadhaar, ration card, voter ID and school records.
8. EWS/DG documents ready before the admission window opens.
9. Own witnesses arranged, with original ID.
10. Written quotation from us, and a receipt for anything paid.

One-Minute Summary

Shahdara is no longer a district — from 1 January 2026 it is a sub-division of the North East district, with Karawal Nagar, Gokal Puri and Yamuna Vihar. Let e-District allot your office, and know that every certificate issued before 2026 is still completely valid. Then the part that matters most here: your child is legitimate whether or not your marriage is registered, and you do not need a marriage certificate to register a birth — anybody who says otherwise is either misinformed or selling something. Register the birth inside 21 days; after a year it usually needs a magistrate's order. Under the RTE Act no child may be denied admission for lack of age proof. Where a marriage certificate genuinely helps a child is a passport, a visa, succession, and any claim by a surviving spouse — and it can never be obtained after a spouse has died. We never provide witnesses, we never touch an under-age marriage, and we earn nothing from birth certificates, school admissions or schemes. Marriage registration ₹6,000.

How We Help a Seemapuri Family

We do the marriage documentation and the coordination. The ceremony is performed by the Arya Samaj pandit or the qazi, and anything needing an advocate — a guardianship application, a legal heir certificate, a succession, a magistrate's order for a very late birth registration — goes to an independent advocate in their own name. We are not a law firm and we do not practise law.

What we actually do:

• a straight first call, free, including when the answer is that you do not need us at all;
• register a marriage from any year, with the evidence assembled properly before we file — children's records included, because here they are usually the strongest thing a family has;
• check every name spelling against your children's documents before submission, not at the counter;
• duplicates and corrections of a marriage certificate;
• one written figure before we start, government charges itemised separately, and a receipt for every rupee;
• complete confidentiality — we do not call families and we do not confirm to anybody that you are our client.

And what we will not do, at any price: provide witnesses; touch a marriage where either party is under age; alter, rewrite or back-date any document; or take money for a birth certificate, a school seat or a scheme enrolment, none of which we handle and none of which should cost you an agent's fee.

If anybody has told you that your child's records are in danger because your marriage was never registered, call and ask before you pay them anything. That call is free and it usually takes four minutes.

Questions and Answers: Marriage, Births and Children's Papers in Seemapuri

Sources and Official References

Facts in this guide were checked against the following primary sources. Government procedures and office allocations change, so confirm current details on the official portal before applying.

• Delhi e-District – official online application portal
• Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969
• Municipal Corporation of Delhi – birth and death registration
• Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009
• Directorate of Education, Delhi – EWS/DG admissions
• UIDAI – Aadhaar for children and mandatory biometric update
• Passport Seva – minor passport document advisor
• Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956
• Guardians and Wards Act, 1890
• Hindu Marriage Act, 1955
• Special Marriage Act, 1954
• National Savings – Sukanya Samriddhi Account
• Delhi Women & Child Development Department
• National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal

This guide is general information, not legal advice for your specific case. Call +91 8376863962 for advice on your situation.

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