PR extends deadline for voiding birth certificates

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Posted on Thursday, 09.23.10
PR extends deadline for voiding birth certificates
The Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Puerto Rico is giving islanders one more month to use their original birth certificates before they are no longer recognized, as offices struggle to handle a flood of applications for new, more secure documents.

Thursday's announcement comes a week before the birth certificates were to be voided under a new identity fraud law affecting about 5 million people - including some 1.4 million on the U.S. mainland.

Puerto Ricans commonly use their birth certificates for a variety of everyday uses such as enrolling in schools or joining churches, sports teams and other groups.

However the documents are often loosely secured and can fetch up to $6,000 on the black market, peddled to illegal immigrants who assume false identities to be able to work and get drivers' licenses in the United States.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/09/23/1838801/pr-extends-deadline-for-voiding.html

[HereSince1628]

1. Can someone tell me why you would need a BC to join a church?

I've never encountered that before, it seems I've missed something about the way other Americans live.

[LiberalFighter]

3. I'm guessing that the church that requires a bc to join need it to commit fraud.

[HereSince1628]

4. Ouch.

[Permanut]

2. And anyone who can't produce the original

will be assumed to be a Kenyan Socialist Anti-colonialist Muslin.

[dogfacedboy]

5. You left out Marxist Nazi Witch Doctor...

[NYC Liberal]

6. And even when they can produce it... nt

[Downwinder]

7. Can't they just authenticate the footprint? n/t