“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?
So someone could call DHHL and ask for copy of their BC and specify if they wanted the long version or the short version?
The only reference I could find to this is as follows:
When we spoke to a spokeswoman for the Hawaii Department of Health, she said too much was being made of the difference between the so-called “long” and “short” forms.
“They’re just words,” said spokeswoman Janice Okubo. “That (what was posted on the Internet) is considered a birth certificate from the state of Hawaii.”
“”There’s only one form of birth certificate,” she said, and it’s been the same since the 1980s. Birth certificates evolve over the decades, she said, and there are no doubt differences between the way birth certificates looked when Obama was born and now.
“When you request a birth certificate, the one you get looks exactly like the one posted on his site,” she said. “That’s the birth certificate.””
You seem to be confusing two different things. DHHL doesn't control whether or not the long form is available. The change on their web site has nothing to do with that.
DHHL required more than proof of your own birth for their specific program, because it was a program specifically for those with Hawaiian ancestry. Just being born in Hawaii wouldn't be enough to qualify for that one program.