@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:I've not completed a Form I9 in quite some time, either, so i didn't recall the exact details of the requirements, but i do know that you aren't required to provide a birth certificate.
I don't see the relevance of form I-9 to this discussion. American labor law does not distinguish between natural-born citizens and foreign-born ones. Accordingly, form I-9 need not ask employees for any documentation of where they were born. So
of course it doesn't require a birth certificate!
The American presidency is the only job in the US where the law -- the constitution to be precise -- cares whether the citizen applying for it is natural-born or not. It's the only job where applicants have to establish their country of birth. Birth certificates are the documents of choice for doing that. So the birthers' unreasonableness, no, their insanity, isn't that they want Obama to produce his birth certificate. It's that they
keep demanding it even though he already
has produced it, and even though it's patently obvious that he did.
roger wrote:Everyone but the government still calls it a green card. What is it now, Resident Alien?
Mine says "Permanent Resident Card".