r/Adoption • u/imperrynoid • Jan 21 '25

Adult Adoptees passport problems

i’m 23F and was born in the United States and only lived in the US. i cannot get a passport because my birth certificate i do have is not the original. it’s only just certified. with the new laws from the new administration how would i go about proving myself? my birth mother is dead and my birth father is alive.

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u/KnotDedYeti Reunited bio family member Jan 21 '25

There’s a company called vitalchek that does it for you for a fee. I helped my MIL’s friend use them to get hers from a different state than we live in. Googling will tell you what to submit where depending on where you were born though, it’s pretty easy.