That could very well be the case.
I did find an interesting scenario while researching the amendment process. In the section that talks about amending a “Certificate of Hawaiian Birth,” it says that any amendment requests will be treated as an application for late registration and a new certificate issued. It also says that if the applicant already has a standard birth certificate, that any amendments requested for a “Certificate of Hawaiian Birth” will be made to the standard birth certificate.
So my question is, “How does one get both types of certificates?”
Good question. A COHB had to be filed a year or more after the birth. A standard birth certificate had to be filed within a year of birth. The very suggestion that a person could have both raises serious questions about what they mean when they say a “standard birth certificate”.
And I did contact Onaka’s office directly to ask for documentation on the procedures of how they convert an amendment to a COHB into a “late” birth certificate. Crickets. Neither Onaka nor the AG’s office have EVER even acknowledged that I e-mailed them. Ever.