Re: Immigration
I came across this story and it’s bogus, but I’m being told this kind of thing happens in Pakistan.
Birth certifcates back in the day like in the 60’s and 70’s were not accurately filed. In fact, I don’t know when it became emphasized to file a proper birth certificate on your kid, because I was hearing that in the old days that families sometimes did not even fill out a birth certificate.
Your family filed a birth certificate but they changed your name later and you grow up getting called a different name. Then you start school, and your new name gets registered, and to get you in earlier, your parents lie about your birthdate, and say you were born in a earlier year, so you seem older. So you get a seat, and now throughout school, your birth date is completely different than the one on your birth certificate, but it doesn’t matter, because your birth certificate’s name doesn’t even match your name on paper in school.
So when it comes to immigration, how does this issue get dealt with when immigrating out of Pakistan? I was told that what matters for identification is the information that the schools and colleges have on you, and that many people don’t even have a birth certificate, so they have to go back and get one made retrospectively. So, if there are errors like birth dates that are wrong or names that are misspelled or wrong, then you just go with what the school has on file, because all your test scores, and academic records are under your new name and erroneous birthdate.
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Happens. My siblings have a difference of 4-5 months in their age because the school only accepted age 3.25 to 3.5 in nursery and they are not from 60s or 70s. True story!!