In my experience it was easier for me to get a birth certificate when I first got my passport than I think it would be for me to get the information in this form (if it were approved and required for all passport applicants). I recall filling out a form that I mailed to some office in Albany with a check. The form was quick (though the turnaround was not).
It would be time consuming for me to find the addresses and contact info for my 6 or so past employers. Not difficult, but the time would take more than an hour I'm guessing, and certainly more than the 45 minutes listed to fill out the entire form.
It would be very difficult for me to get the addresses of the 10-20 different places I have lived. I have lived in at least 11 different residences because when I have had summer jobs out of state where I filed taxes as a part-year resident and sometimes registered to vote in the new location, and when I lived at college I filled out the census and filed NYC taxes as a part-year resident or a non-resident. I may have lived in as many as 20 different places if you count each dorm in college as a different residence. One of the places I lived I just checked, I have no email record of the address so I would have to use a Google streetview to find the address.
And I'm a privileged individual. What about people who grow up to low-income parents who moved frequently during their childhood or crashed on relatives' couches for years? What if said parents have passed away? What about people who were fostered as children? What about people who were not born in a medical facility and have to find their mother's place of residence a year before and after their birth?
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Date: 2011-04-25 02:03 am (UTC)It would be time consuming for me to find the addresses and contact info for my 6 or so past employers. Not difficult, but the time would take more than an hour I'm guessing, and certainly more than the 45 minutes listed to fill out the entire form.
It would be very difficult for me to get the addresses of the 10-20 different places I have lived. I have lived in at least 11 different residences because when I have had summer jobs out of state where I filed taxes as a part-year resident and sometimes registered to vote in the new location, and when I lived at college I filled out the census and filed NYC taxes as a part-year resident or a non-resident. I may have lived in as many as 20 different places if you count each dorm in college as a different residence. One of the places I lived I just checked, I have no email record of the address so I would have to use a Google streetview to find the address.
And I'm a privileged individual. What about people who grow up to low-income parents who moved frequently during their childhood or crashed on relatives' couches for years? What if said parents have passed away? What about people who were fostered as children? What about people who were not born in a medical facility and have to find their mother's place of residence a year before and after their birth?