[Drew68]

I have an Illinois birth certificate that differs in no noticeable way from the Hawaiian short form, except that it says "Illinois" at the top and not "Hawaii." I used it to get a passport in California with no problem whatsoever.

Colorado also uses the same form. My original "long form" has been lost and when I needed a replacement, I received by mail a stamped, certified computer-generated short form identical in format to the "factcheck" BC and this is what I used to enlist in the military, get my passport and get married. For whatever reason, the State Department requires long forms from only those born in Texas and California.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

Colorado also uses the same form. My original "long form" has been lost and when I needed a replacement, I received by mail a stamped, certified computer-generated short form identical in format to the "factcheck" BC and this is what I used to enlist in the military, get my passport and get married. For whatever reason, the State Department requires long forms from only those born in Texas and California.

Okay, that's good to know...

And so it appears that the "short form"/"long form" issue is a tempest in a teapot... :-)

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

For whatever reason, the State Department requires long forms from only those born in Texas and California.

Those two states issue something called a "Birth Abstract," and those are what are no good for passport purposes. A couple of states also issue a wallet-sized card, which is also no good because it doesn't list the parents at all.