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Electronic Verification of Vital Events (EVVE)

The EVVE system, owned and operated by NAPHSIS, allows immediate confirmation of the information on a birth certificate presented by an applicant to a government office anywhere in the nation, irrespective of the place or date of issuance. Many federal and state agencies rely on birth certificates for proof of age, proof of citizenship, identification for employment purposes, issuing benefits or other documents (e.g. driver’s licenses, social security cards, and passports), and assisting in determining eligibility for public programs or benefits. With the EVVE system, authorized users can submit an electronic query to any participating vital records jurisdiction throughout the country to verify the contents of a paper birth certificate or to request an electronic certification (in lieu of the paper birth certificate). An electronic response from the participating vital records jurisdiction either verifies or denies the match with their official records. The EVVE system will also flag positive responses where the person matched is now deceased, an important aspect for purposes of fraud prevention.

The EVVE system also supports the electronic verification and electronic certification of death records and is capable of batch processing in addition to responding to individual queries. Another key feature of the EVVE system is a “broadcast” option which will allow an entity to send a query to participating jurisdictions when the state of birth or death is unknown. This option can be used to support fact-of-death queries when an entity wants to check if a person is deceased, and if deceased, where and when they died. Seven more jurisdictions came online with death data in 2013, which brings the total number of jurisdictions that can support death queries to 33.

Providing an Alternative to the Public Death Master File (DMF) In 2015, the EVVE system will become available to government and non-government entities who have an established administrative need for identifying if a person is deceased. This expanded use of EVVE will provide a much more comprehensive alternative to the public DMF, which does not contain a complete set of deaths that have occurred in the United States.