About a month or so ago, I suggested that everyone needs a passport or

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83. BIRTH CERTIFICATE - that thing your parents got from the hospital with the cute little footprint IS NOT a birth

certificate, at least that's what I was told when I first applied for real ID in December 2019 in Minnesota. "That's a memento".

So when applying for real ID, be sure to have a real birth certificate. Whatever website you are using that explains real ID requirements, be sure to carefully read what the requirements of a birth certificate are.

I had to write to some office in California, and hoping I didn't screw up or miss something, but it went smoothly thereafter, I think it took 3 weeks or somesuch for California to respond and mail me my real birth certificate.

This is a post to the thread, not to the OP, just to save some people who might read this an extra trip or thinking they have a birth certificate when they only have "a memento".