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> Birth certificates are pieces of paper that literally anything identifying as a hospital can create 'officially'. I don't know how it works in European count
by cesarb 9y ago
> Birth certificates are pieces of paper that literally anything identifying as a hospital can create 'officially'.
I don't know how it works in European countries, but here in Brazil, birth certificates are made by notaries, not hospitals. You might be able to get forged hospital documents to take to the notary, but getting a "backdated" birth certificate for an adult is harder (getting a second copy of your birth certificate is easy, however; just go to the same notary, who has every birth certificate it emitted registered on its books).
- Spooky23 9y agoThe US has something like 7-10k issuing agencies. In some places, it is trivial to request somebody’s birth certificate. It’s one of those weird US things where localities control stuff that they lack the ability to do well. Regardless of issues, it’s still the penultimate representation of you.