You’re welcome ... my head is still spinning.
My question is still: how and what did the
State Dept. have to do to issue him a legal
US passport?
I saw this on Israeli Insider. Don’t know if it is true or not; but sounds like it has merit:
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12993.htm
In the comments by a poster named muzhik:
Obama may never have had to produce his birth certificate to get a passport. As a baby, he would have been included in his mother’s passport as a “family passport”. Whoever took her application may not have required her baby’s BC — it’s the ‘60s, she’s white, the daddy’s black, and it’s not like the kid will ever run for president. Sloppy by today’s standards, but not necessarily by the standards of the time.
After that, it’s just a matter of keeping the passport renewed. When he turned 14, Obama would have gotten his own passport, using the “family” passport as proof of citizenship. If he kept his passport renewed, he never would have needed to produce a certified birth certificate.
Per the State Department's own web site, they do not need a birth certificate to issue a Passport.
The minimum requirements are:
1. "Certificate of No Record" from the state that says the state was unable to find a CoLB.
2. A DS-10A filed by an older blood relative that asserts he was born here.
That's it.
I've had to dig this out a dozen times to show people, either trust me on this one, or go to the State department's web site and see for your self: www.state.gov
Please don't piss me off by asking for me to dig it up again.