“and yet Onaka only mentioned Honolulu and none of the other things from the application.”
And in your opinion it is because he cannot verify them and in my opinion it is because they are implicitly verified in the “Verification of Birth”.
We may never know the answer.
I hope you and your family have a happy and health New Year.
If Onaka certifies a letter of verification that means “I verify everything you said”, that is legally a signed blank check, because the requestor could claim they submitted ANY facts and that Onaka verified them all without mentioning any of those facts specifically. Ken Bennett could fudge his request and say that he submitted the facts that Obama, female, was born on Feb 30, 1242, in Honolulu on the island of Hawaii, to Osama Bin Laden and Cleopatra - and bring forward Onaka’s verification to prove that all those facts were true, since Onaka had verified it all in one fell swoop without specifically mentioning anything except Honolulu.
That’s not how this stuff works. If Onaka doesn’t say a verification of “any fact” he doesn’t DO a verification of that fact. If I signed an affidavit saying “I swear to everything he said once” I would be laughed out of creation. That’s not how certifications and/or sworn statements work. If you don’t say it, you can’t swear to it.
Ditto for you and your family on the New Year. I hope 2013 is good to all of us.