18 Weeks?!

So, I have been trying to get a new driver's license. The state of Virginia requires that I provide a certified copy of my Birth Certificate even though I once had a Virginia driver's license about 5 years ago. Well, not to name names, but QueenSuchandSuch (keeper of all vital records) has lost my birth certificate, therefore, I have to request a new one from the state of California.

There is a vital records web site that pointed me right to where I need to go to get my birth certificate. To expedite the request, it is submitted to the county I was born in. About 8 weeks later, I received...a letter. Because I am adopted, "the county does not keep me birth certificate on record. Thank you for you money. Check with the State of California in Sacramento."

Nice...real nice. So, I go to the web site which says "they ONLY accept birth certificate request through the postal service. Please send us more money...and notorize this paper with your signature." I snail mail my request and money, and notorized paperwork and wait.

Meanwhile, my birthday has now passed and my driver's license is on E. I figure if I do get stopped, I will tell the cop I was born in California. That should work right? So, I am rapidly approaching a need for a valid driver's license or passport. I intend to take the MCM exam in May. Problem is, you can't board a plane with an expired license...and I am not driving from Washington DC to Seattle. So, I called them.

When I started down the road to Sacremento, the web site stated it could take up to 12 weeks to get it back. Now it states I have an AVERAGE wait of 18 weeks. Oh, and Governor Ahnode has informed the same agency that took my money that they have to NOT work on the first 3 Fridays of every month. What kind of crap is that? I paid for a service to be completed within a reasonable time. 18 weeks, not reasonable. I know for a fact that every birth certificate in loaded into a database, since the database was open to the public for a short time in the 90s, so why in the world would it take 18 weeks...average?

Odd thing is, the state of Maryland, you can walk right up and get a copy of the birth certificates in minutes. I had to do so for my 3 older kids. California Vital Records Division may want to take a page from Maryland's play book.

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