What The Heck Do I Do? My Master Birth Certificate Is Illegible!
Location: California, US
I have been applying to companies since October of 2025. I finally got two offers, but they require certified birth certificates and Real IDs. I've always been able to get a job using a photocopy and my regular ID, so I went down to my local registrar to get a certified BC and their master is completely ruined. it's all blacked out, almost as if it were redacted. They said they will need to investigate and it could take up to 6 weeks to get it fixed.
My mother lost all my original documents when my dad left us and my dad hasn't been a part of my life since 1997. I've also never flown or traveled out of the country so I've never had a passport either and a real ID was never in my mind since I've never traveled out of state (except by car). I don't know what to do. I have a photocopy of my birth certificate and it's completely legible, but not certified and the one the county has is all blacked out.
I doubt my potential employers will wait the 4-6 weeks to get this corrected. I've already exhausted all my PTO doing interviews too so everything will have been for nothing. I don't think I'll get a chance again for a while.
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