[Cboldt]

-- I don't see a reason for a `70's-80's kid needing a second birth certificate for anything else. --

There is no such thing as a "second birth certificate." A CRBA is evidence of citizenship, not of birth.

[lodi90]

There is no such thing as a “second birth certificate.” A CRBA is evidence of citizenship, not of birth.

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Practically speaking it is both. For instance, signing a child up for school with a CRBA isn’t prove citizenship to the school. They don’t care about that. It’s proving identity like a birth certificate does.