[cynwoody]

I know several people that were born overseas, in Japan and the Philippines who are citizens with Hawaii COLBs.

Irrelevant. Unless their CoLBs list their birthplaces as Honolulu instead of Japan or the Philippines. In which case, you get to make Janice Okubo eat crow.

[BIGLOOK]

Irrelevant. Unless their CoLBs list their birthplaces as Honolulu instead of Japan or the Philippines.

Their CoLBs list Honolulu or other small cities in Hawaii as their place of birth. No reference is made to their actual place of birth.

"'Others wonder why a large black rectangle appears next to the words, "CERTIFICATE NO'."

"'The thing that's redacted is just our file number," she said. "Potentially, if you have that number, you could break into the system.'" Janice Okubo