Who is Eligible to Apply for an Amended Certificate of Birth?
As provided by law (HRS §§338-17.7, 338-20.5), the following persons may apply for an amended certificate of birth:
* A person born in the State of Hawaii who already has a birth certificate filed with the Department of Health and
1. has become legally adopted, or
2. has undergone a sex change operation, or
3. a legal determination of the nonexistence of a parent and child relationship for a person identified as a parent on the birth certificate on file has been made, or
4. previously recorded information in relation to the person’s surname and/or the father’s personal particulars has been altered pursuant to law.
* A person born in a foreign country who has been legally adopted in the State of Hawaii.
Being born in Kenya, and then being adopted by the grandparents (& possibly the later Seotoro adoption) would fit the bill!
I have always suspected that Obama was adopted by his grandparents for a couple of reasons, first because Indonesia, would not recognize his mother’s right to her children in a divorce (Muslim laws)and secondly his mother stayed in Indonesia and they would adopt him and his sister as their guardians.
This way both Obama and his sister(who was both in Indonesia) would get Hawaiian COLB’s.