How can I get my Portuguese birth certificate?

How can I get a birth certificate from Guatemala? ETC.?

• It's pretty easy to get a birth certificate if you were born in the US but I was born in Guatemala and adopted as a baby. I now need my birth certificate for numerous reasons but I don't have it. My parents have lost it. How can I get another one? Who do I contact? I also need a social security card and I need to get citizenship. I lost my job about a year ago because on my social security card it says "for work purposes only with INS authorization" meaning i need a green card. i didn't have one so they said i couldn't work there. i had a green card but my parents lost that as well. i shouldn't even need one because of a law that changed back in '98. i know i'm a legal citizen. but my parent's never filed for citizenship. i've lived in the US all my life. my daughter was born here and this is the only home i know. but how can i get citizenship and a new social security card? i also recently lost the SScard that i actually did have. what am i to use as identification? PLEASE HELP!

• Answer:

  Try the adoption agency that handled the adoption. Their must be adoption papers that your parents were given when you were adopted to make it legal. If you were legally adopted then you should be a U.S. citizen and not need a green card. I would definitely start with the adoption company. They may be able to tell you where you were born and that would help confine your search to a smaller area. Best of luck to you.