surprising service

[cellio]

The passport folks bounced my application because they didn't like my vintage 1960s birth certificate (stamped and signed but not embossed). So I sent off for a fresh copy.

A few weeks after I mailed the application I got a postcard telling me that I should expect it to take six weeks. Five days later I received the birth certificate, which is now on its way to the passport folks for round two.

Granted, I did write the certificate number at the bottom of the application (I had the information, after all, so it couldn't hurt), but still, this is much better response than I would have expected out of any bureaucracy, let alone a large county in a large state. I'm impressed.

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[sekhmets-song.livejournal.com]

vintage 1960s birth certificate
Vintage. That makes me feel so much better than old.
(I swear, my birth certificate looks like somebody just typed it up on scrap paper in a decrepit old ribbon type writer; nothing on it even hints at "official document" status. I'd hate to think what the passport folks would think of it now, now that my original passport has expired.)

[zachkessin.livejournal.com]

I have no Idea where my birth cirtificate is, (Eather one of them, I have 2). At some point I should write to the US state department and whomever in England one writes to to get copies. But it doesn't seem real pressing. I have passports for ID.

I tend to have redudent IDs, 3 passports, 2 birth cirtificates etc.

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

One time, in grammar school, we had to bring in birth certificates for some reason. Most of the kids brought in a sheet that could fit in a 9x12 envelope. One kid was born in Poland and naturalized with his parents. He brought in a 2'x 3' framed document with engraved designs all over it. :D
-- Dagonell