http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3256692/posts?page=100#100
All her grandparents, her mom & dad, and next in age sister (17 year old Patience Elizabeth) were born here; the documents exist.
Patience’s parents (Alecia’s) are listed on her birth record.
Alecia has a notarized document showing her last name change from the one that is on her dads birth record to his current one; she got it after moving into her maternal grandparents home.
Said grandparents are helping her.
How would it be against the law to document accurate information, as in a birth record for her?
She now has a lawyer taking her case.
I saw this story on a news website recently. But here, you and other FReepers have done a lot of research on this case.
If the girl’s older siblings were able to go to college, work, drive, etc., then maybe this girl should sit down with her parents and work through the process with them, too.
In the meantime, this girl is complaining about not being able to go to college, get a job, driver’s license, etc. But, how can that be so? Plenty of “undocumented” people are going to college and working in Texas.
A quick search shows that “undocumented” students can establish residency in Texas, go to college there, and even receive Texas tuition aid:
http://www.finaid.txstate.edu/more-info/TASFA.html
Once in college, she’ll have a college ID card, a college transcript, mail from government agencies to her address, etc. - all documents that can be used to help her with identification. She’s probably going to need her parents to verify at some point, however.
If all that fails, she can commit a crime and get herself arrested. I noticed that Texas considers a criminal record to be proper documentation. (Ironic, isn’t it?)
BTW, as a recent victim of identity theft, the way I look at it, this girl isn’t in such a bad situation. ;-)
To a certain extent, though, I can sympathize with her on the red tape and bureaucracy. Recently I asked to apply for a filing fee waiver for filing court docs. You can’t apply for a waiver unless you have a bank account statement showing a balance. If you have so little money that you have no bank account, you don’t receive a waiver. So, no waiver for me...