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Thank you for your reply. We went to the Post office yesterday and applied for passports. My only problem is that my brothers and myself were legally adopted by our stepfather and the birthdate on my birth certificate is not filed within one year of my birth. It is filed the date that the adoption was finalized. Even to apply for a passport I needed to give an explanation so I attached a copy of my adoption papers however, my birthdate is one year off on the adoption papers. My mother could never get my birth year straight. She always made me one year younger. I am leary about leaving the country without knowing that I will get back in. My original birth certificate was torn up. I can't even imagine what the procedure would be to try and change a birthdate on a sealed adoption! I had a hard enough time getting copies of my birth certificate even though I still only live about 5 miles from where I was born. I am keeping my fingers crossed that I do get the passport in time so that I too can cross the border into the Yukon!

<blockquote data-quote="Lin" data-source="post: 722059"><p>Thank you for your reply.&nbsp; We went to the Post office yesterday and applied for passports.&nbsp; My only problem is that my brothers and myself were legally adopted by our stepfather and the birthdate on my birth certificate is not filed within one year of my birth.&nbsp; It is filed the date that the adoption was finalized.&nbsp; Even to apply for a passport I needed to give an&nbsp; explanation so I attached a copy of my adoption papers however, my birthdate is one year off on the adoption papers.&nbsp; My mother could never get my birth year straight.&nbsp; She always made me one year younger.&nbsp; I am leary about leaving the country without knowing that I will get back in.&nbsp; My original birth certificate was torn up.&nbsp;&nbsp; I can't even imagine what the procedure would be to try and change a birthdate on a sealed adoption!&nbsp; I had a hard enough time getting copies of my birth certificate even though I still only live about 5 miles from where I was born.&nbsp; &nbsp; I am keeping my fingers crossed that I do get the passport in time so that I too can cross the border into the Yukon!</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Lin, post: 722059"] Thank you for your reply. We went to the Post office yesterday and applied for passports. My only problem is that my brothers and myself were legally adopted by our stepfather and the birthdate on my birth certificate is not filed within one year of my birth. It is filed the date that the adoption was finalized. Even to apply for a passport I needed to give an explanation so I attached a copy of my adoption papers however, my birthdate is one year off on the adoption papers. My mother could never get my birth year straight. She always made me one year younger. I am leary about leaving the country without knowing that I will get back in. My original birth certificate was torn up. I can't even imagine what the procedure would be to try and change a birthdate on a sealed adoption! I had a hard enough time getting copies of my birth certificate even though I still only live about 5 miles from where I was born. I am keeping my fingers crossed that I do get the passport in time so that I too can cross the border into the Yukon! [/QUOTE]