My question is: Does the State departure accept a certificate of live birth issued by Hawaii? I know that when I presented the equivalent issued by the State of Texas, a card used to cross the border into Mexico, they would not accept it and demanded I present the “original birth certificate.” But maybe Hawaiian law gives the COLB the same validity as other forms of birth certificate. Given the number of US forces people who pass through,and the then (in 1961) recent territorial status of Hawaii, registration may have been be looser than in other states and the State has since simply lumped all together in the interests of simplicity.
My understanding is that Hawaii does not accept COLB as valid documentation, but as a reference point to some other form of official documentation. Not sure about the State department. I think that in any case, whatever the documentation was used for 0bama to get his U.S. passport in 2004 for the first time, was deliberately stolen from the U.S. passport break-in in Spring 2008, in order to suppress & hide whatever form of that documentation was given to the U.S. passport agency.
The State Department will accept a certificate so long as it bears the registrar's signature, has a raised or colored seal, and the certificate was filed within one year of birth. Obama's COLB meets all of those requirements.