You can use a short-form birth certificate for most purposes, including obtaining a driver's license or passport. But there are particular times when the long form is required, ...

Mr. Obama had in 2008 released on the Internet his "certificate of live birth" -- a short-form birth certificate provided to all Hawaiians as proof of birth in state -- but that failed to quell ...

Previously the state Department of Health issued a short form version of the actual birth certificate. Those are no longer valid and you need to get the new long form.

President Barack Obama speaks to reporters about the controversy over his birth certificate and true nationality, Wednesday, April 27, 2011, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott ...

Until yesterday, the White House said the previously released short form of the birth certificate, which Hawaiians get upon request and which counts to get a driver’s license or passport, was ...

Like most people, I had discarded the issue about President Obama's birth certificate long ago as without merit. Recently, though, possible Republican presidential contender Donald Trump has ...

President Barack Obama released the long-form version of his birth certificate, yet another piece of concrete evidence that shows he was born in the United States. The White House said he received a ...

After years of hearing that he wasn’t born in Hawaii; that his official state-certified short-form birth certificate wasn’t real; that his family planted fake birth announcements in Hawaiian ...

Obama released a standard short form before he was elected in 2008 but requested copies of his original birth certificate from Hawaii officials this week in hopes of quieting the controversy.

When President Obama released his long-form birth certificate last week (remember when that was a big story?), it wasn’t clear how convincing the document would be for people who already ...

Long ago, Obama released the short-form Hawaiian certificate of live birth. “Yet this thing just keeps on going,” he said. “Now, ...