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smooth · 04-20-2005, 10:27 AM

I didn't need to be present to obtain my birth certificate. I was able to have it re-issued via phone conversation from Oregon (born in California).

The social security office will provide you with a temp card while the new one is enroute through the mail.

If you don't live in the county you were born, your social security card (your temp card) is the fastest to obtain.
If you live in the county you were born, either one is just as fast.

Regardless of the one you decide to get for now, make sure you follow through and obtain both for the future.

EDIT: oh yeah, did you already ask your parents? I don't want to call em sneaky, perhaps reluctant

, but all of my friends' parents kept the originals and gave their children certified copies. You might have your tucked away in the family bible or something.

04-20-2005, 10:27 AM	#5 (permalink)
smooth Junkie Location: Right here	I didn't need to be present to obtain my birth certificate. I was able to have it re-issued via phone conversation from Oregon (born in California). The social security office will provide you with a temp card while the new one is enroute through the mail. If you don't live in the county you were born, your social security card (your temp card) is the fastest to obtain. If you live in the county you were born, either one is just as fast. Regardless of the one you decide to get for now, make sure you follow through and obtain both for the future. EDIT: oh yeah, did you already ask your parents? I don't want to call em sneaky, perhaps reluctant , but all of my friends' parents kept the originals and gave their children certified copies. You might have your tucked away in the family bible or something. __________________ "The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account." -- Walter Lippmann "You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists." -- Abbie Hoffman Last edited by smooth; 04-20-2005 at 10:30 AM..