A Certification of Live Birth is not an acceptable document. A COLB carries very differently than a “certified birth certificate” as far as the law is concerned.
A COLB is incomplete for determining who you are
In fact, a “certified birth certificate” is defined by the State Department quite clearly“
http://travel.state.gov/passport/get/first/first_830.html
*A certified birth certificate has a registrar's raised, embossed, impressed or multicolored seal, registrar’s signature, and the date the certificate was filed with the registrar's office, which must be within 1 year of your birth. Please note, some short (abstract) versions of birth certificates may not be acceptable for passport purposes.
Here are Montana’s requirements:
http://www.doj.mt.gov/driving/requireddocuments.asp
Or you can consult the Department of Labor for what constitutes a “Birth Certificate”
Title 29, Section 32.14
It is here in PDF, on page 2 at the top:
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2005/julqtr/pdf/28cfr32.13.pdf
You can see that many government agencies would not accept the COLB as a document sufficient for meeting their criteria.
I think that should be my next project: compile a list of government agencies and their requirements.
Sorry about the formatting. don’t know what happened.
“A Certification of Live Birth is not an acceptable document. A COLB carries very differently than a “certified birth certificate” as far as the law is concerned.”
Sorry dude, but a Hawaii COLB will get you a driver’s license in any state or a U.S. passport from the State Dept. Or be accepted as prima facie evidence in any court of law.
Pound on the table or stomp on the floor if you like, but it won’t change that fact. You must impeach the information on the COLB itself. Try this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2309830/posts?page=703#703