May We See Your Real Birth Certificate, Mr. President?
May We See Your Real Birth Certificate, Mr. President? By Mario Apuzzo, Esq. March 22, 2011 WND in its recent story, Why Short Forms Fall Short , states that Washington D.C. and Virginia Passport Offices do not accept short-form birth certificates as acceptable items of proof of identify, but Hawaii does. Joseph Farah reports: “I recently conducted a little experiment. I called three passport offices with the following apocryphal tale: I said I needed to apply for a passport but only had a short-form certification of live birth from Hawaii. Would that suffice? The three passport offices I contacted were in Hawaii, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. Hawaii said "no problem." Washington and Virginia both said no way.” http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=277753 I checked the U.S. Department of State web site on this issue. The U.S. Department of State, in giving instructions to the public on how to apply for a U.S. passport, states that a birth certificate is ...