The legal status is printed on the front of the document, that is, that the document "serves as prima facie evidence of the fact of birth in any court proceeding." If it turns out that the authenticity of the document is in question, and that the HDOH refuses to acknowledge that a document in question is fraudulent when they know it to be, because of "privacy," then no document's authenticity in Hawaii can be trusted.
-PJ
The legal status is printed on the front of the document, that is, that the document “serves as prima facie evidence of the fact of birth in any court proceeding.” If it turns out that the authenticity of the document is in question, and that the HDOH refuses to acknowledge that a document in question is fraudulent when they know it to be, because of “privacy,” then no document’s authenticity in Hawaii can be trusted.
Exactly Correct. All Hawaii BC’s are now suspect.
Yes. This is why I compare Hawaii’s situation to Puerto Rico. Their birth certificate blanks got stolen, and there were fakes everywhere. They redesigned them and reissued ALL of them, and you had to apply to get the new one. I will not be surprised if I have to one day reapply for a Hawaiian COLB when it becomes public knowledge just how many people got Hawaiian docs who were foreign born.