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Türkiye: Birth registration for a child born outside marriage / paternity recognition in Australia

  • Checked 24 October 2026

Check with the office. The official pages for this service leave out some details, or are older than a year. Use this page as a starting point and confirm fees and documents before you apply.

Parents registering with the consulate the birth of a child born outside marriage in Australia. The father may formally recognise the child in person; otherwise the child is entered in the mother's family record.

Where to apply in Australia

Consulate-General of Türkiye in Sydney (Woollahra, NSW; jurisdiction: Australia except VIC, SA, TAS and WA) and Consulate-General in South Melbourne (VIC; jurisdiction: VIC, SA, TAS, WA). Embassy in Canberra also exists.

Melbourne: see melbourne-cg.mfa.gov.tr; no separate procedure pages for this service were published.

Contact details for every office are on the page of the embassy and consulates of Türkiye.

How to apply

Submit or send the foreign birth certificate within 60 days of birth | for paternity recognition the father applies in person | name must use letters of the Turkish alphabet unless a Hague name convention applies

Documents you need

Fees and processing time

The official pages do not publish a fee for this service. Ask the office before you apply.

Good to know

Page states no fees and no date. Only the Sydney page was read; marriage-based birth registration is not covered by this page.

Official sources

Check before you apply

This page summarises information published by Türkiye's official channels, last checked on 24 octubre 2026. Fees and requirements can change at short notice, so confirm with the office that will handle your case.

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