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Not at all....yourself included have told us of the various people who have apparently SEEN the ORIGINAL vault copy birth certificate........REMEMBER???? :eek:
OK.....so let's see it!!!!!!!!!!
Pay close attention to the highlighted sentences AMT
In an article in the Honolulu Star Bulletin today,
State Department of Health spokesperson Janice Okubo stated that the âCertification of Live Birthâ is now the official birth certificate of Hawaii. Long forms are no longer available.
â¦you canât obtain a âcertificate of live birthâ anymore.
The state Department of Health no longer issues copies of paper birth certificates as was done in the past, said spokeswoman Janice Okubo.
The department only issues âcertificationsâ of live births , and that is the âofficial birth certificateâ issued by the state of Hawaii, she said.
And, itâs only available in electronic form.
Okubo explained that the Health Department went paperless in 2001.
âAt that time, all information for births from 1908 (on) was put into electronic files for consistent reporting,â she said.
Information about births is transferred electronically from hospitals to the department.
âThe electronic record of the birth is what (the Health Department) now keeps on file in order to provide same-day certified copies at our help window for most requests,â Okubo said.
Asked for more information about the short-form versus long-form birth documents, Okubo said the Health Department âdoes not have a short-form or long-form certificate.â
âThe birth certificate form has been modified over the years and decades to conform to national standards and models,â she said.
Okubo also emphasized the certification form âcontains all the information needed by all federal government agencies for transactions requiring a birth certificate.â
She added that the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized the stateâs current certification of live birth âas an official birth certificate meeting all federal and other requirements.â
The issue of what constitutes an official Hawaii birth certificate received national attention during last yearâs presidential campaign. Those who doubted Barack Obamaâs American citizenship called the copy of the Hawaii birth document posted on his campaign Web site a fake.
Asked about that document, Okubo said, âThis is the same certified copy everyone receives when they request a birth certificate.â