[curiosity]

Many and non-vital records? As in NOT issued passport for incomplete or insufficient applications?

The more natural reading of that statement is that 20-year-old passport applications aren't vital. What makes you consider them vital?

[Red Steel]

The more natural reading of that statement is that 20-year-old passport applications aren't vital. What makes you consider them vital?

Apparently you didn't read all the contradictions in the post that I provided on this thread.