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Did you know that once you receive a passport, they will not issue a Certificate of Citizenship?  This is because they both provide the SAME proof, that you are a citizen.  You can file 1040EZ or 1040.  You're still filing your taxes.  Show me a single instance that there's been a bad outcome because a parent go their child a passport rather than a Certificate of Citizenship?  You can't.

Finally, an open door!   The U.S. Embassy in Thailand is granting us an emergency passport appointment this next week.  They can give us a passport that day.  I have been sweating this because I will lose about $1,300 in plane fares if we don't catch the flight.   In addition, my wife's job desperately needs her back and my little girl is starting school on August 10.  I don't know who in the US Embassy is helping us, but they are aware that the U.S. Passport Agency isn't functioning for many people.  
 
I am very thankful to see this nightmare end!   It looks like lawmakers are well aware of the problems here and the system is addressing it.   This has been hell for us because my family has been trapped in Thailand without my daughter's passport.  

That is plain ridiculous. Why do they need originals when they have certified copies of the same? Instructions on their website clearly state "original or certified". But i guess we can't win that argument when time is not on our side

"The immigration process demands a great deal of knowledge, planning, time, patience, and money.  A deficit in any of these areas can spell heartbreak."
   -GB, "old man of much life experience"
 
Truer words never spoken.   Unless you just hop over the border to the south.  Next lifetime, I'm sneaking everyone in.