My birth certificate is now a worthless piece of paper...ROFL!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

So my sister went to apply for a passport and she was told that her birth certificate wasn't a valid form of ID anywhere. The reason given was the fact that she was born in Secaucus, NJ. Apparently, there were people selling fake birth certificates for twenty years out of Hudson County and now any Hudson County birth certificate from that 20 year period isn't considered valid ID, because there are so many fakes.

I'm from that same period, so my birth certificate is worthless. W00t! Oh well, I have a passport already.

This once again proves I was born in and spent my formative years in the most corrupt county in NJ.

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Does this mean you aren't a real person?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. I think my passport makes me a real person, but if my passport is based

on a fake person then...I guess I may not be a real person.

[flvegan]

3. So, this sister of yours...what's she like?

:hide:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

6. She's only 18 and she has a boyfriend anyway.

:spank:

[NewWaveChick1981]

4. So you don't really exist, then...

Nobody born in Hudson Co. during that time period exists, according to their logic. :P :rofl:

What a crock...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. Yup.

Apparently, county workers figured out they could really enhance their salary by providing fake birth certificates to the huge immigrant population. So those of us that are actually legitimately from Hudson county (and born between the 70s & the 90s), no longer have legitimate birth certificates.

[Gormy Cuss]

5. That is too funny.

I would have guessed that Essex County would be more corrupt than Hudson, but corruption in urban NJ is quite competitive.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. Yeah, it's like the Corruption Olympics

Hell, my dad worked for Union City and he took bribes all the time, but he refused to take money. Most of his coworkers went to jail for corruption. However, when everybody is corrupt, you're pretty safe by only being a little corrupt and not very corrupt.

[catmandu57]

9. So is my old one

I have my original bc it's been good for 49 years until this one, anyway.

The state of Missouri has decided that to be able to drive or have an id that says you are who you say you are, must present a bc at the time you get said license or id.

The thing is though it must have an official embossment, the only way you can get an official embossment is to buy a bc from the state of Missouri for 15.00.

No matter that the one I've always had was issued by the state in 1957. It's just recycling now.

[ThomCat]

10. Mine isn't considered valid either

I've been told that it's because I was born on a military base and have a mitilary certificate of live birth instead of a state birth certificate. No state seal means not valid.

x(

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. In Hudson County, even the fakes have state seals.

:thumbsup:

[alarimer]

14. Mine is like that too

I have a piece of paper from the state of Tennessee's Department of vital statistics but it has no seal on it. How do I get one? Is it even possible?

[Blue Diadem]

12. They wouldn't accept my son's as ID and that was before his drivers

license. They said technically a BC is not ID and that I had to have something else to prove his ID. This was at a SS office..I needed to have his card re-issued since dumb me had partially laminated it years before, not realizing that's a no-no until I'd finished the front. We were just getting ready to go to get his driver's license when I realized I'd never had his card reissued. I'd thought for sure his BC and his partially laminated card would be sufficient..but the SS office wouldn't accept it.

Want to know what they did accept? A handout homework sheet that he had printed his name on for school. ???

OH..the other thing they asked was if I had a school picture of him..except it would have to have his name on the back. ?? I asked if that was common for parents to write their own kids names on the backs of the pictures they carried with them. I sure don't..

[rug]

13. Why on earth would hundreds of people want to claim they're from Secaucus?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. Because they're illegal immigrants.

Anyway, I may have been born in Secaucus, but I grew up in Union City. Union City might be poor, corrupt, & crime-ridden, but at least it's not a corrupt swamp.