<p>Birth certificate has been procured!</p>
<p>Hip Hip Hooray!!!</p>
<p>YIPPEE! Off you go on vacation, have a great one!</p>
<p>So glad you were successful — hope the vacation is awesome!</p>
<p>Re: birth certificates … my parents changed our last name when I was 2. Four of us kids have birth certificates that are in the new name only. I happen to have my original with an addendum on it … not sure if my brothers do, though. At one time, this would not have been an issue. Now, I think it may be. When my mom passed away two years ago, my dad actually had to give social security name change info that he had long ago been told would never be necessary. Maybe it’s due to all the new rules? Fortunately, the info he needed was in his safety deposit box. </p>
<p>I need to talk to my brothers about making sure they have everything they need in case they need passports … or if they die, I suppose. Our youngest brother died about 6 months before our mom, but he was born after we changed our last name. Not sure if it would be a problem with death benefits if they don’t have the old-name stuff.</p>
<p>Wait - the BC still needs to be ‘accepted’ and the passport issued. We still need more updates from Shrinkrap.</p>
<p>True … but the rest should be a piece of cake (crossing fingers …).</p>
<p>Great news! Keeping fingers crossed for the passport edition.</p>
<p>QLM</p>
<p>I think it’ll all work out in the end and with all of this effort especially, she deserves for it to work out.</p>
<p>This thread has likely helped other people though - i.e. making sure the passports are obtained ‘well’ in advance of any trips. I guess it’s time for me to do some checking of my family’s passports. At least if one already has a passport it’s easier to just renew it than start from scratch.</p>
<p>My husband (her dad) took my D to LA to get the passport, and I texted him to make sure both parents names are on it. He texts back…“Yes…and who is Mike?!!”"…</p>
<p>Har har. Funny guy.</p>
<p>Shrinkrap, I am so happy that this nightmare is coming to an end for you! I hope your vacation is wonderful!</p>
<p>Shrink!! So happy for you.</p>
<p>Bon Voyage!!!</p>
<p>Not uncrossing my fingers and toes until the actual passport is issued…</p>
<p>I’m with ellemenope. Until the passport is in hand, it’s not a done deal. However, that said, I have confidence that you will have it by the end of the week, if not tomorrow. Best wishes!</p>
<p>I guess my husband better not let his passport expire. He has a birth certificate written in whatever language is spoken in Thailand…with a translation and a certified copy from the state department of birth of a citizen overseas.</p>
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<p>That would be Thai. </p>
<p>I believe that an expired US passport is accepted as sufficient ID for purposes of reissue, though obviously it is easiest if the passport is renewed on a timely basis.</p>
<p>It is interesting how different each state is. I have a copy of my grandfather’s birth certificate from AR. He was born in 1913 and it has his parents’ names on it. Mine is 50 years old from MD and does, as does DH’s from FL. DD3 was born in DC and I had to get a long form of her birth certificate. DD2 consulate certificate of birth does not, but there is another form that does. TX messed up my state of birth on DD1s so we had to get an addendum for it, but usually don’t present that.</p>
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<p>I just received my FS-240 Consular Report of Birth Abroad (CRBA) from the State Department. I’ve never really had an official birth certificate and it has worried me since 9/11. Luckily, I never had trouble getting a passport because I was issued one when I was a baby. </p>
<p>But I am very paranoid about keeping it (and everyone else’s passport in the family) up to date.</p>
<p>I was adopted at age 6 (with name change) by my stepfather and my original birth certificate was destroyed and a new one created and backdated such that it appeared to have been filed within a few days of my birth. I have a passport so I’m fine, but honestly, it would raise a lot of questions if I were ever to become president.</p>
<p>^^ That seems weird to destroy the old one and backdate a new one. Is that even legal? Is it common?</p>