Anyone Know Anything About Passports?
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Originally Posted by Nona
you have to send an original certified birth certifcate, not one that came from the hospital. It will be returned to you with your passport. .
Certified copies can be obtained from the state for a fee.
Many states issue, upon request, a credit card size plastic certified birth certificate that includes the raised embossed official state seal. Guard those carefully if you keep them in your wallet all the time.
When I was a passport clerk, sometimes elderly applicants would have to procure census records or church baptismal records, etc., since back long ago sometimes when babies were born at home without a physician or even midwife, parents didn't understand the need for registering the birth. They'd think the birth didn't need to be proved, obviously, but actually the passport is to prove your citizenship for re-entry to your own country.
It was very interesting work.
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Originally Posted by postal packin' mama
Originally Posted by Nona
you have to send an original certified birth certifcate, not one that came from the hospital. It will be returned to you with your passport. .
Certified copies can be obtained from the state for a fee.
Many states issue, upon request, a credit card size plastic certified birth certificate that includes the raised embossed official state seal. Guard those carefully if you keep them in your wallet all the time.
When I was a passport clerk, sometimes elderly applicants would have to procure census records or church baptismal records, etc., since back long ago sometimes when babies were born at home without a physician or even midwife, parents didn't understand the need for registering the birth. They'd think the birth didn't need to be proved, obviously, but actually the passport is to prove your citizenship for re-entry to your own country.
It was very interesting work.
I have permission from my adviser to go to the community college, now I just need is permission from my college... and find out the fees and what not for the school. I'm hoping I can get a fee waiver since the community college near my house does not offer the class... that or I get the in district fee since I am a "resident" at Elmhurst College. I'll find that out soon enough. I have a feeling I might have to pay for this myself and not my mom (who is paying for Elmhurst along with my Dad). But that does not bother me... It's only for two classes to begin with, so I should be fine.
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