Reply #13: Birth Cert vs Cert-of-Birth in HA are different docs [View All]

[SoulSearcher]

The official Birth Certificate is an official Hawaiian document,
while the "Certificate of Live Birth" is controversial. The official
BC has never been shown, and some suspect it was damaged or lost.
(I've been doing some reading on this claim). While the Cert-of-Live-Birth is
useful, there are oddities as HA requires the long-form Birth-Certificate
for certain things - i.e. you cannot claim native Hawaiian status w/o
an official Birth Certificate. So that's what I found as the controversy -
the HA Birth-Certificate ("long-form") versus the Certificate of Live Birth
are two different docs in HA. The Birth-Cert works for everything, the
Cert-of-Live-Birth does not. Not really sure why HA has both (?).