One more, just in case you’re bored with what I already posted - or if you want to fondly remember what it was like to deal with a 2-year-old who just learned how to say “Why?” lol.
In the case of adoption, where the original BC is sealed, is there a way to hide or lock the record (seal it electronically, so to speak) so that the record is still there but won’t show up when queried?
This is a weird what-if, but just humor me, OK? lol. Suppose Joe Blow was adopted and became Joe Cool. Then later on he was adopted again and became Joe Six-pack. His BC# was kept the same through all those changes. If a person queried that BC# which name would show up? Is the BC# sort of like a social security number - the identity of the person, regardless of what name that person might have at any given point in time? If so would there be anything to keep a bureaucrat from creating fake identities by re-using the same BC# over and over but with a different name associated with it?
Like, for instance, if a bureaucrat wanted to get rich could he find the BC# of a dead child and create ID’s for a whole bunch of illegals, giving them all that BC#? When their name was checked in the EVVE system it would show them as having a record, but if the BC# was queried would it show a bunch of names for that BC# so somebody could tell there was a problem?
FWIW: my son was adopted while I was in the Philippines. The Philippines created an amended birth certificate showing his new last name.
When he was naturalized, we changed his first name. However, we have never tried to get him an amended birth certificate in the US...might be interesting to try, since it would be much easier for him. Right now, he has to show both his birth certificate from the Philippines and the name change from the court in San Antonio...and his Philippine birth certificate is getting pretty ragged.
It might be interesting to see if Arizona would issue an amended birth certificate showing his current legal name + his birthplace in the Philippines. It might help him out someday...if he ever loses his paper copy of his Philippine birth certificate, it will be a pain to try to replace it.