At least that’s the opinion of the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles. They have declared that her birth certificate is illegal. Not invalid, illegal. As in she is breaking the law by being in possession of it.

She was born on a long since closed military base in Germany and the Germans (at least at the time) didn’t use raised seals on birth certificates. Virginia won’t take it as a legal document. The State Department form DS-1350 that she has used her entire life says that the United States government recognizes that she is a child of American parents born abroad, but the state of Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles says that it too is not a valid document. See, the problem with that form is that it is not green in color. According to the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles all such documents are always green in color. Not that this particular document being 30+ years old might have something to do with the faded color.

Keep in mind that these are the same documents that have worked for years. Including being legal enough for the United States Army to accept them and add her to the benefits database when we got married a while back. So I guess our marriage must be illegal too.

What the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles will take to prove that you belong in this country is an expired passport. They’ll take one that hasn’t expired too, but what kind of sense does it make to not take a State Department document when they will take a document that is no longer valid for the purpose it was created for?

Welcome my best buddy in the whole wide world to the blogsphere. He’s set up shop at a place called The Downlow on the Lowdown. I think he should have stuck to the tag that THE BOY hung on him, Scott the Scared. Scaredy Scott is in the formative stages of his project so give some encouragement love while he’s finding his feets.

That’s it for now. I’m still searching for a good tag line to end these things, so if you have ideas leave it in the Comments box.

Out.