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Ohio Restricting Puerto Rican Birth Certificates


Posted November 16, 2010
10:33 pm


September 1, 2010
Associated Press (reprinted in 10 publications)

People born in Puerto Rico are finding that older birth certificates from the U.S. territory are not being accepted when applying for a state ID or driver's license at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, a reaction to concerns about possible fraud that a national Hispanic group said smacks of racial discrimination.

Ohio Restricting Puerto Rican Birth Certificates

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