LadyAurora
<font color=green>Listen, sister!!!<br><font color
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- Jul 8, 2003
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I would like to complain a little.
My husband doesn't have a birth certificate. He was born at home, as opposed to a hospital, and his mother never got one. Don't ask me how he went so many years without one...he didn't even know he didn't have one until right before we got married! We were at the courthouse picking up the marriage license and decided to get a copy to take with us on our honeymoon. Luckily, we only went to the Bahamas, because we then found out there was no birth certificate on file for hubby. The lady at the courthouse gave us a pile of forms to fill out for a "Delayed Record of Birth." This looked like a lot of hard work, including producing school records from grade school, etc. DH promptly put it out of his mind. That was 6 years ago.
Fast forward to when we moved to FL in March. We went to get our new drivers' licenses, only to be told that IL licenses are not considered proof of citizenship in FL, that we would have to provide birth certificates or passports. No DL for hubby! That means he can't get a new license plate, either. The lady at one courthouse down here said he can probably get a passport, if he could prove in other ways who he was.
Through extreme acts of nagging, and basically me doing the work, he now has a certified, official letter from Lake Co, IL saying he has no birth certificate, the souvenier B.C. from the hospital where he was taken after birth, an affadavit from his mother that he was born, and an affadavit from his older sister that she remembers him being born. He still can't get a license! Last week he got a ticket from a cop that HAD been planning to give him a warning, because the cop didn't believe he couldn't get a FL license.
What a pain! Why can't states be reciprocal? They say they had to change because of 9/11.
OK, that's my complaint. Thanks for letting me vent.
Has anyone else had a problem like this?
My husband doesn't have a birth certificate. He was born at home, as opposed to a hospital, and his mother never got one. Don't ask me how he went so many years without one...he didn't even know he didn't have one until right before we got married! We were at the courthouse picking up the marriage license and decided to get a copy to take with us on our honeymoon. Luckily, we only went to the Bahamas, because we then found out there was no birth certificate on file for hubby. The lady at the courthouse gave us a pile of forms to fill out for a "Delayed Record of Birth." This looked like a lot of hard work, including producing school records from grade school, etc. DH promptly put it out of his mind. That was 6 years ago.
Fast forward to when we moved to FL in March. We went to get our new drivers' licenses, only to be told that IL licenses are not considered proof of citizenship in FL, that we would have to provide birth certificates or passports. No DL for hubby! That means he can't get a new license plate, either. The lady at one courthouse down here said he can probably get a passport, if he could prove in other ways who he was.
Through extreme acts of nagging, and basically me doing the work, he now has a certified, official letter from Lake Co, IL saying he has no birth certificate, the souvenier B.C. from the hospital where he was taken after birth, an affadavit from his mother that he was born, and an affadavit from his older sister that she remembers him being born. He still can't get a license! Last week he got a ticket from a cop that HAD been planning to give him a warning, because the cop didn't believe he couldn't get a FL license.
What a pain! Why can't states be reciprocal? They say they had to change because of 9/11.
OK, that's my complaint. Thanks for letting me vent.
Has anyone else had a problem like this?
