Originally Posted by
GUWonder
Who said the bureaucrats are generally responsible for the lack of accuracy when it comes to Indian records related to births? The responsibility for the inaccuracy of records marking births generally rests with the parent(s) who often decide to even get the season and/or year off.
In the US, there are still many Americans who have been born without being issued a birth certificate, and this is still the way it is in some places for some people. I wonder what the Indian government is going to do about such persons who may apply for a visa.
The Indian government should be aware that it's not like birth certificates across the entire US are "secure" documents and free of all inaccuracies and misuse. If anything, identity theft using birth certificates to get a passport is much easier in the US than in India, even as money speaks in much the same way in both places.
Yeh, I'm guessing that's why Canada won't let you just present the birth certificate at the border. Requesting "duplicate" birth certificates for people whose obit ran in a newspaper is a known scam. That's why I think we need a 21st century form of ID that involves more than some of these things that have been around for so long I don't even know when they first we accepted. Really something like Global Entry is more like what people should have. Something a jihadist can't just order up from whoever cooks up false documents.