[Oh bother! Read the FRICKIN’ State Department web site! ]
[Any idiot can check the facts and call me on it if I’m wrong.]
I guess someone needs to tell all the local passport offices so we won’t have to go through the bother and expense of sending away for them.
IF you were capable of actually, you know, like, actually finding the State Department’s web site, you would know that you still have go though just as much bother to get a “Statement of No Record” and that this document is a requirement for getting a passport without a Birth Certificate.
You might even learn something, though I’m beginning to think about considering the slight possibility that maybe you’ve stopped learning.