Who knows?? They have a standard form for requesting birth certificates which is the same form for requesting a letter of verification, yet they made Bennet submit a more detailed request in writing. That looks to me like they were trying to get him to refer specifically to the forgery and not an valid record on file.As to the comma - the COLB is derived from information in a computer database, while the LFBC is an actual copy of a typed document from 1961.
If the information can be entered into the computer database WITHOUT a comma, there's no real reason why Onaka would need to include it. As written, Onaka is presenting the commas as part of his name, so there's nothing to indicate it would be a suffix. Second, there are separate comma errors on Obama's LFBC and on his COLB, which would seem to indicate that commas were entered into the database fields. Odd that commas are such a problem.
“yet they made Bennet submit a more detailed request in writing”
I thought he wanted more information and they would only give him what is on the form unless he specified in writing what he wanted.
“As written, Onaka is presenting the commas as part of his name, so there’s nothing to indicate it would be a suffix.”
Or he is presenting the information as it appears on the LFBC and on Bennett’s request form.
The only commas I see on the COLB are part of the dates which normally have commas.