What if someone in a government agency just started printing birth certificates and social security cards for everyone? How would anyone know the difference? Like fake IDs on a mass scale.
What if someone in a government agency just started printing birth certificates and social security cards for everyone? How would anyone know the difference? Like fake IDs on a mass scale.
How would they be found out, though? When was the last time someone asked for your birth certificate?
Are other countries this obsessed with birth certificates?
I have only ever needed my birth certficate once. When I got married. I was living in a foreign (but still EU-) country at the time; I have no idea if I would have needed it to marry in my own country. It’s possible my mom might have needed it when I was little, to get me into elementary school or something, no idea about that. It’s definitely not needed for a driver’s license or a house. That’s ridiculous.
I didn’t need a birth certificate when buying a house. That seems odd.
I also needed one to renew my license. They made it really awesome by rejecting my original birth certificate from the hospital and told me I’d need to pay $70 to get a replacement from some government records office. This isn’t even for a real ID or anything.
Someone will get caught trying to do something illegal with their fraudulent docs, and eventually it will all unravel.