Also, I don’t think a US citizen is eligible to be a federal employee of ANY kind if they haven’t registered with the Selective Service.
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I joined the US Navy Air Reserve early in my Sr. year of HS, at age 17, with a contract that required me to go on active duty one year later. I became 18 about two months before active duty, but I still had to go to the local Selective Service Board. Showed them my Navy I.D. and was dismissed. Probably no registration for me on file now.
I later went through testing and FBI background checks (including interviews with my childhood neighbors) to become a US Customs agent and was selected, only to be shot down by Nixon cutting hiring of government personnel the night before I was to be sworn in. ...Later got a Top Secret clearance to work at a Defense contractor.
Not sure if all that makes sense, but my attempted point was to say that the SS registration may not be a big deal to many, although required by law.
BTW, Butterdezillion... I enjoy your postings which tend to present factual data rather than just snarky comments.
I can see where it wouldn’t have to be a big deal for somebody who was already enlisted. You obviously weren’t trying to hide from the Selective Service requirement. Did the military cross-check with Selective Service and when it was seen that you weren’t registered you had to go before the board to make sure everything was cool?
BTW, thank you for your service. My brother-in-law was a Navy officer/pilot. Went into the reserves in order to finish out his 20 years after he didn’t make one of the later cuts and flew commercial instead. He spent last year in Bahrain. His son had the background check for a security clearance; my bet is they would not have allowed him anywhere near classified information - much less the nuclear football - if they had found him palling around with terrorists as an adult and forging vital records.
Foreign students with a student visa attending a U.S. School are not required to register with Selective Service. If the Foreign Student became eligible to naturalize as a U.S. Citizen, the Foreign Student would have to register with Selective Service or obtain a waiver for not registering to become a U.S. Citizen. A Certificate of Naturalization would not be issued to foreigner who did not register with Selective Service or obtain a waiver from registration.
As a person born in 1961, if Obama did not register with Selective Service in 1980, then voters would have questioned his eligibility. Consequently, there is motive to forge a registration card. If Obama waited until he was 21 years old to register, then voters may demand a full explanation as to why he waited. If Obama obtained a waiver from registration, then voter may have question why he obtained a waiver. If it is established Obama did not register because he was a foreigner attending a U.S. School on a student visa in 1980, then his eligibility to be on the Alabama ballot would have been jeopardized.