Why?
If you’re in the US, you should know this because if you want to apply for a passport, you’ll be required to provide information about your parents such as birth dates and places. If you’re divorced, you will have to provide the same info along with marriage and divorce date, even if it was decades ago. So if you have access to that info, make sure you record it somewhere safe for Future use.
If you’re not in the US, you should know because this information can be difficult for people to get if they never knew one or both parents, or have a bad/non-relationship with them. Or if they had a contentious divorce or an abusive partner. Which is another reason why just leaving the country can be difficult for people who are already marginalized.
From an outsider’s perspective, I think the USA and Russia should just have sex and get it over with.
We get it - you both love the military, you both hate minorities, you both want to restrict the rights and freedoms of your citizens.
Just get a room, get it out of your systems, and maybe the rest of the world can finally get some much-needed peace this year.
In fairness, there is a non-zero chance Trump has sucked off Putin already.
The only thing that makes me pretty sure it hasn’t happened is that I think trump is too decrepit to get down on his knees
No, he’s too decrepit to get UP off his knees. But he wasn’t always geriatric, as I’m sure Bubba will tell you.
So yea, passports.
Is this new? When I filed for my passport in ~2021 I didn’t need that info.
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Yeah, I’m from the US and I have a passport and no idea where my dad was born.
No, they’re legitimate questions on the form you have to fill out for a passport in the United States.
It is not. Those questions have been on the DS-11 since before 2021.
Also, if you’re old like me (40+), your parents middle initials might not be on your birth certificate and they won’t accept it. You’ll have to go through getting a new birth certificate beforehand and run all around the city waiting in lines for an entire day. Ask me how I know.
My father was given a middle name at birth, which he changed when he got his Social Security card. I’ve already had a bit of legal difficulty with that one.
I’m pretty sure I’ve gotten a passport in the USA before and never had to provide any of that information. Is this something new?
Struggled a bit because my grandparents raised me and they’re dead. Not sure all that has to be prefect though. Divorce dates for example, how are they gonna check, call all 50 states and request records? If I can’t readily determine where my grandparents were born, how would the federal government know?
Anyway, this isn’t new, and certainly not a Trump thing because I applied before Biden was out.
It’s not an automatic denial either though. You can N/A those sections if you don’t have the information. They may ask you to fill out an extra form but if you’re an adult they may also just accept it if everything else is okay. What you shouldn’t do is lie on the form. So don’t N/A something where you do have the information.
I was hoping that would be the case, but everything I googled said “if you cant reach out to your ex-spouse, no problem, just get the info from their friends or family!” Like, thanks, anyone close enough to him to know that info hates my guts and will definitely tell him and give him my contact info.
So the source here is google. YSK is for things you actually know.
Everything i posted is fact. You can download the application form yourself. If you use the auto filler, you are required to fill in that information. What i googled was for what would happen if you don’t use the auto filler and don’t provide that information.
All this info can probably be obtained through a country clerk / registrar depending on what you need to know.
what county was your mother or father born in? just 1 out of 3143.
hope your parents aren’t dead and you can’t ask them.
good luck!
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point is, this information used to be used as a way to align an identity to an individual, however with the expansion of digital identity information making its way on the internet the mechanism is broken.
I different method could and should be used.
