The hubby and I have been under a crazy amount of stress lately. This has caused a lot of restless sleep, crabby phone conversations, and snappy responses.
I'll try and make a long story short and try to make sense as I tell it.
The hubby was born in Texas. The hospital never filed a birth certificate with the county clerk's office. Meaning there is no birth certificate on file for him. His mother, nor father back in the day, bothered to read the letter that stated a delayed birth certificate could be obtained by filling out some forms.
Fast forward nearly 33 years later. The hubby's birthday is Feb. 16th. He has to renew his license with hazmat endorsement. In order to renew the hazmat endorse. he has to have a background check, fingerprints done, and a security threat assessment. (Mind you he did this all before! But since our federal government is money hungry he has to do it again!) For the threat assessment he needs a birth certificate (again didn't need the first time)!!! As of which he does not have.
He can file for a delayed birth certificate but it takes---get this----8 to 10 weeks or more! We have to fill out this long application and submit a bunch of papers that his mom kept (thank God!)
Plus another 30 days for the background check. If you do the math you will find that 8 to 10 weeks is past his birthday! Without this endorsement he will be fired!
I did some research Saturday morning and found out a way for him to get a passport (which he can use to renew) without a birth certificate. I just about danced out of the office when I got this information. Because at this point we pretty much figured his job was done. I called him, told him the great news, and told him to go get his passport pics taken at Wallgreen's.
We got the needed paperwork from his mom on Sunday and weeded through everything that would help, filled out the application, and made copies of everything. We do have a birth affidavit, hospital certificate, baptismal certificate, a bunch of school and doctor records. So we are keeping our fingers crossed that when he goes and gets the passport it goes smooth as butter and they accept everything. We were told to bring as much as possible.
We can not wait to have this all said and done with! We will still try and get that delayed birth certificate but we are waiting until this whole passport deal is done with and we are not under such a time crunch. Then we are having a huge celebration!!
This thing also kind of happened to my grandpa. The hospital that he was born at burned down back in the day (the 20s?) and with it went all of the paperwork. Fastforward 50 years when he and my dad want to go to Australia and my grandpa needs a copy of his birth certificate to get a passport. I think he ended up piecing it together with other paperwork like you guys, but it's a huge stresser.
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