And yet the U.S. State Department finds the Hawaiian Certificates of Live Birth are sufficient for passport applications.
What about for security clearances?
For those, the applicant needs to show where their parents were born.
For that they need their own LFBC to show not only who their parents were, but also the nationality of the parents.
If one of the parents were born overseas or isn’t a citizen, then it makes it difficult to pass the background check.
Security guys care about “ foreign involvement “.