[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

“Doesn’t someone have to produce a valid birth
certificate to acquire a US passport? “

NO
That might have started with Social Security
Numbers assigned at birth.

[aShepard]

..................Doesn’t someone have to produce a valid birth
certificate to acquire a US passport? “
NO

Absolutely yes! For my first passport about 30 years ago, I had to visit the Queens Co NY vital records dept, wait around, wait around, wait around, until the shuffling employee produced a duplicate copy of my Birth Cert.

Then I had to present that to the Passport officials, and wait around, and wait around, and wait around, until I finally got a passport.

Maybe it’s easier now. Maybe if you speak broken English and show up wearing a shirt and shoes, you’re deemed passport material!