[null and void]

If he used a birth certificate that means it was assessed as genuine by the SSA and Passport Office, and this story is over.

Nope.

In the first place one actually can get a passport without a birth certificate.

In the second place Hawaii will issue a Hawaiian BC to a foreign born child upon adoption by Hawaiian parents, with the adoptive parents listed as birth parents.

This is why seeing the vault copy is an issue.

[Reverend Wright]

“In the first place one actually can get a passport without a birth certificate.”

Yes, that was in the link I posted.

“In the second place Hawaii will issue a Hawaiian BC to a foreign born child upon adoption by Hawaiian parents, with the adoptive parents listed as birth parents.”

Would such a document list Hawaii as Place of Birth?