To begin your online purchase of a birth certificate, you will need to submit a request to a third-party vendor.

• Fill out the secure VitalChek form

  • VitalChek will validate your information

  • The Tulare County County Clerk-Recorder will mail your order directly to address given to VitalChek

Please allow one week for processing

Note: The County of Tulare is not responsible for the delivery of mail by the United States Post Office or any other delivery service.

• Complete the online application before you arrive

• Bring government-issued ID (for authorized copies).

• Bring payment in the form of a credit card, check, money order or cash

For birth certificates obtained in the same day, the cutoff is 1998 to current. Anything before 1998 will be processed next business day.

If you would like to purchase a birth certificate by mail, you can do so by:

• Completing an application

• Following the Instructions on page 4, "Birth Record Copy Application"

• Have your signature on the application notarized by a notary public

• Mail your check or money order made payable to the Tulare County Assessor/Clerk-Recorder

  • Please do not submit cash with orders requested by mail.

  • The fee for searching a record is not refundable. If no record is found, you will receive a Certificate of No Record.

• Mail your request and payment to: Tulare County Assessor/Clerk-Recorder at 221 S. Mooney Blvd., Room 105, Visalia

Please allow 7 business days for processing.

Note: The County of Tulare is not responsible for the delivery of mail by the United States Post Office or any other delivery service.