The Electronic Verification of Vital Events Records (EVVER) system allows a jurisdiction motor vehicle agency (MVA) to verify information on a birth certificate presented by a driver license applicant. EVVER verifies birth certificate information against vital records provided by the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS). NAPHSIS is an association of public health officials concerned about vital records and health statistics. NAPHSIS makes vital records available to organizations such as the Social Security Administration (SSA).
After receiving the birth certificate information from the MVA, NAPHSIS routes it to the issuing jurisdiction's vital records agency which matches the birth certificate to their records to verify the data on the birth certificate. The issuing jurisdiction's vital records agency responds back to NAPHSIS which processes the response and routes it to the requesting jurisdiction MVA with the results of the verification.
To implement EVVER, jurisdictions can use the Call List/AMIE interface, or the new XML interface. For details, see Technology Standards and XML.
Releases
The initial release of EVVER (release 1.1) was implemented in 2004, and release 2.0 was implemented in 2011. Release 2.0 aligns EVVER with the enhancements made to the EVVER system by NAPHSIS. A summary of the changes is provided in the EVVER AMIE Specification.
Limitations
EVVER does not include:
- Mexican and Canadian jurisdictions
- Death record verification
- Verification of birth certificates for applicants that were not born in the United States
- Birth certificates for applicants born in jurisdictions that are not part of the EVVER pilot