MD Real ID documents needed for people from NY State

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This question is for people who were born in New York State (not City -- I think they had different birth certificates) and now live in Maryland and need to present a birth certificate to get their Real ID verified drivers licenses.

I don't have a passport so I need to use my birth certificate.

All my life I have used something like *this* as my birth certificate. It was always accepted everywhere, even for a passport which has long since expired...)



It had a raised seal, etc., and all the information needed on a birth certificate. But when I went to the Maryland MVA three weeks ago they told me that this was a certificate of birth registration and not an actual birth certificate. It merely stated that my birth certificate was on file, and I needed a copy of the actual birth certificate.

So I contacted New York State Department of Health (online) and ordered a copy of my birth certificate and what they sent me was exactly the same information as before, only this time they are calling it a "Certified Transcript of Birth" and it looks like this:



My question to other New Yorkers (from the state, not the city) is.... has this been good enough for you to present as Real ID document? Or is there something else they should have sent me?

I was able to use the bottom one in MD for a Real ID. I think a lot of it depends on the person you get, my sister was able to use the top version in MD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The first one...read the header...vital statistics. Get the passport.

Why should I get a passport? It's $140 which I cannot afford, and I have no need for one.

I just want to renew my driver's license in the state of MD so I can drive here and use it as my ID should I need to show ID.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used my passport to get the real ID but I had this exact problem last time I got my MD license. I had to get a supervisor to okay it.
My husband was born in NYC and his birth certificate looked so fancy and official—no problems there, and they kept asking why mine didn’t look like his.

DMV employees aren't the sharpest tools in the shed. They should be asking "Why does his look fancy? So I don't ask questions?"

As part of this Real ID fiasco, I can use my W2 to prove my SSN. That's just ludicrous because I have to print my own W2 since the company doesn't mail it to me.

[Anonymous]

I have the same Certificate of Birth Registration and have used it for 76 years for EVERYTHING including Social Security - it states it is evidence pf parentage, etc and California DMV will NOT accept it.

[Anonymous]

I am having the same problem using the top copy (which I have used my entire life) to get an Enhanced Drivers License in Michigan and they tell me I cannot use it and have to get a Certificate of Live Birth from the DOH at Albany. I'm really worried that I will get the same exact thing.

[Anonymous]

I had this issue as a Marylander. The doc I believed was my birth certificate was not one and I had even used it to go to Canada ( back when you could do that). The only reason I figured out it was not the real thing was that Real ID Maryland had a checklist on their website.

[Anonymous]

I was born in Corning, NY and when I was there over the summer I got two copies of the certified transcript of birth like the one shown above. They told me they don't make copies of birth certificates anymore. I live in DC and certainly hope this will work when it's time to get a real ID. I'm gonna get a passport too for back up. Why is it such a PITA to get one of these damn real IDs? It's easier to get a passport for pete's sake!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The first one...read the header...vital statistics. Get the passport.

Why should I get a passport? It's $140 which I cannot afford, and I have no need for one.

I just want to renew my driver's license in the state of MD so I can drive here and use it as my ID should I need to show ID.

In your shoes, my parents got passport cards. $65 including execution fee.

[Anonymous]

My "birth certificate" looks the same as what you posted. I had no idea that it wasn't technically a birth certificate. I have a passport, so I don't remember the last time I used it, but no one has ever pointed out that it wasn't real.

[Anonymous]

Two weird states. Hard pass on both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not from NY. Because they felt the need to send a second piece of paper carefully explain things, NY has had this issue before with other states.

A transcription is another word for copy. Should DMV taken the original document that is a certification of registration? Of course. It's a copy of the birth certificate information. But it doesn't say "copy of birth certificate".

Ask for a manager next time. Someone that isn't breathing through their mouth.

Your writing skills are atrocious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My "birth certificate" looks the same as what you posted. I had no idea that it wasn't technically a birth certificate. I have a passport, so I don't remember the last time I used it, but no one has ever pointed out that it wasn't real.

Because it is real. You can only get copies, or transcriptions, of the original record. It just doesn't look fancy enough to make a DMV employee happy.

[Anonymous]

The first one is a keepsake, the second one is the real document. How do I know? I verify proof of age for a soccer league. Any parent that submits the first we have to reject. It's not a legal document.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The first one is a keepsake, the second one is the real document. How do I know? I verify proof of age for a soccer league. Any parent that submits the first we have to reject. It's not a legal document.

DP. Interesting. Dept of State takes it as legal for passport purposes. I've run into issues with it in the past, including trying to get back from the Bahamas when I was in college (pre-passport requirements) and then again when DH and I went as young marrieds. We both got passports afterwards to stop the insanity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The first one is a keepsake, the second one is the real document. How do I know? I verify proof of age for a soccer league. Any parent that submits the first we have to reject. It's not a legal document.

You apparently work at DMV as well. That document appears to be a signed government document complete with seal. Not clear how to make it more authentic. It provides the exact same information that a "birth certificate" does. You can't get your original birth certificate. Only copies that certify that there is an original on file somewhere.