Uvalde County Recordable Documents Cannot Be Apostilled
June 20, 2025 
This week, something happened for the first time in 16 years of doing rush Texas apostille services.
The Texas Secretary of State rejected a certified recordable copy document (birth certificate) issued by a Texas county after 2000.
As you can see, Uvalde County wrongly does not say, “Local Registrar” or “County Clerk/Local Registrar” underneath the registrar’s/county clerk’s name like every other county in Texas properly does on their recordable documents, which they issue.
This is how the Texas birth certificate should look with the words “Local Registrar” or “County Clerk/Local Registrar” listed on the document under the local registrar’s/county clerk’s name.
If you order your Texas birth certificate directly from Texas Vital Statistics, it will always correctly state, “State Registrar” on the document.
The reason is that Uvalde County is knowingly not doing what the other 253 Texas counties have done for several decades, which is to properly list the county clerk’s/registrar’s title beneath the name of the county clerk/registrar on all recordable documents, which is required by Texas state law to be able to receive a Texas apostille certificate.
No official title listed on the city or county issued document = no TXSOS issued apostille certificate
The supervisor at the Texas authentications unit that we talked to about this situation stated that the TXSOS has made the City of Uvalde/Uvalde County aware of this major error. She said that current citizens or ex-citizens of Uvalde County should contact their state representatives in that district to apply pressure on the city/county to properly comply with the State of Texas law.
So if you need a Texas death certificate or Texas birth certificate apostilled, and you were born or a family member died in Uvalde County you must currently order directly from Texas Vital Statistics/Texas Vital Records to be issued a proper Texas birth or death certificate so you can receive a Texas apostille certificate issued on it.
You can go here to order a Texas birth certificate online through Texas Vital Records.
https://ovra.txapps.texas.gov/ovra/order-birth-certificate
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