“You do not need a birth certificate to get a passport.”
That’s interesting. I just arranged for passports on both of my children and provided birth certificates for both of them. Are those “international passports” different than the US passports I just obtained? Perhaps there are other documents that would suffice. Not sure what they might be. They seemed to be fine with the BC’s though.
“Are those “international passports” different than the US passports”
Well, my memory is failing, but I am almost sure that I did not need my BC when obtaining my passport in Memphis, some years ago.
I did, however, have to provide my BC when applying for Social Security, a few years ago, through the embassy in Warsaw, Poland.
I do not know what an international passport is.
I filled up my first US passport and had to have new pages added.
I now have a new US passport, obtained this year in the Philippines, as the last one expired.
They are good for ten years.