Answer
For an adult applicant, a birth certificate may be included in the residency application because the foreign record confirms the person’s name, date and place of birth, and parents. As a practical guideline, a newly issued certificate should have an apostille and translation.
The practical issue is that an old original from the home country is not always suitable for use abroad. A damaged, laminated, or poorly legible document is best replaced with a newly issued copy before apostille and translation.
If a birth certificate is required only for certain applicants in a particular residency category, account for that in a personalized checklist. But an adult should not dismiss it in advance: it may be needed for identification, the history of surname changes, or later procedures in Uruguay.