Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ulysses.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!smb From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) Newsgroups: net.legal,net.women Subject: Re: Name Changes (really passports) Message-ID: <1102@ulysses.UUCP> Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 13:17:26 EDT Article-I.D.: ulysses.1102 Posted: Wed Sep 18 13:17:26 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 07:05:13 EDT References: <139@rruxa.UUCP> <10060@ucbvax.ARPA> <1515@peora.UUCP> <139@tekchips.UUCP> <1860@bmcg.UUCP> <561@bonnie.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 15 Xref: watmath net.legal:2357 net.women:7455 > > I agree with your wife. I don't give anybody my original anything. > > I'm still waiting for California to return my original birth certificate > > from when I applied for my passport. It's only been two years. > > Maybe they have been busy huh? > > > > I knew California was bizzare, but I didn't know Californians needed passports > to leave the state. > > United States passports are issued by the US State Department, and can be > obtained only through them or US Post Offices. Wrong, or at least obsolete. In at least some areas, local government agencies can act as agents; I believe they get an extra fee from you. For example, in Union County, NJ, the court clerk will accept passsport applications. Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com