[quote=jficquette][quote=urbanrealtor]John, thats really not how it works.
My son’s original bc is somewhere in an archive.
The hospital has records but will not release them to anyone with or without my permission (barring power of atty) per federal law.
The thing I buy at the courthouse is a COLB or equivalent.
My original bc is somewhere in a state department archive. I have never seen it. (I was born on a US base in Germany)
The copies I get for getting a passport is a COLB.
Most people consider these equivalent.
Its a bit like the difference between a certified check and an official check. Most bankers make no distinction.
Similarly, most people reviewing these certs make no distinction.
I got a duplicate a few years ago. It has the date of printing and certification on it. The seal does not have my birthday (or birth year) on it.
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COLB and BC are essentially the same for mundane things like passports, social security numbers but not for determining eligibility for POTUS.
Again, there is no record of him being born in a hospital in Hawaii.
John
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Again, that’s just your opinion of how it works.
The date and birth location on the CoLB are derived directly from the content of the Original BC which is on file in Honolulu.
You do not need to know what hospital someone was born in to determine their eligibility for POTUS. You only need to know the birth location and date. And all of that information is certified on a Hawaii CoLB. Obama was born in Honolulu. Period.
I’m floored that you think a document that is good enough to grant someone a US passport is somehow deficient when it comes to proving birth location. I don’t think you realize how little sense you are making.
If the CoLB says he was born in Honolulu, you’re going to have to accept it as true. Because that’s what the US government believes and you have no verifiable evidence to prove otherwise. No one does.
