Hawaii changed the format in 2001. Those few months have become a few years.
“Hawaii changed the format in 2001. Those few months have become a few years.”
They changed the FORMAT of the birth certificate printout, but it wasn’t until THIS year that the long form was ‘unavailable’.
It was just in January that the DHHL REQUIRED the long form to get the benefits of being of Hawaiian heritage. Too bad I didn’t screen capture the website because I remember going back to my bookmark a few months ago to find that not only is the ‘long form’ no longer required by the DHHL, it’s no longer AVAILABLE.
Coincedence?
P.S. I’m sure others here remember as well, not only was it specific about requiring the long form, it said to make sure you allot enough time to obtain it because it took several weeks to month to get it from the state. You couldn’t just walk into any county office and get a printout (like the one Obama put on his website).
They started issuing the abstract as the "standard option" in 2001, that's true. But they only stopped not issuing a certified copy of the long form upon request in early summer of 2009. They only changed the website of the Hawaiian Home Lands program to reflect that the long form was no longer available about that same time. Now if the long form *really* had not been available after 2001, don't you think that website, which contained instructions on how to get the long form, would have been changed before summer of 2009?