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Here are the FACTS! http://passportsusa.com/?page_id=209

Your link goes to show, yet again, how you can't believe everything you read on the internet.

You will note, that the website is not in any way affiliated with the US state department or any other government agency. That makes any information on it highly suspect. It turns out that it is wrong.

The facts from the state department are as follows:

"A certified birth certificate has a registrar's raised, embossed, impressed or multicolored seal, registrar’s signature, and the date the certificate was filed with the registrar's office, which must be within 1 year of your birth."

http://travel.state.gov/passport/get/first/first_830.html

The Hawaii COLB has all of these things.

[Velveeta]

The facts from the state department are as follows:

"A certified birth certificate has a registrar's raised, embossed, impressed or multicolored seal, registrar’s signature, and the date the certificate was filed with the registrar's office, which must be within 1 year of your birth."

http://travel.state.gov/passport/get/first/first_830.html

Thanks for the link, you have proven yourself incorrect.

The Hawaii COLB has all of these things.

A COLB is a CertificaTION and NOT a Birth Certificate.