Just recently I was in the Division of Motor Vehicles in Puerto Rico and what I discovered was shocking!! If you are NEW in the system (such has a drivers license or car registration and title) they keep your birth certificate. Why would they keep an original copy when someone can easily steal them and sell it to an alien or immigrant. This sounds like trouble to me. Who can stop this. So everytime there is a transaction of some sort you must buy about 3 copies of your birth certificate costing you money. Also, doing my own investigations, the Department of Health has a limit of 5 copies per person. No matter where you was born, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey the Division of Motor Vehicles keeps you original birth certificate. This is non-sense!
The Division of Motor Vehicles is as we all know, a prt of the government. Who inside the government can we trust to receive all of our birth certificates without any identity frauds. The reason why the United states government are pursueing passports is because of immigrant buying birth certificates and getting Identification in someone else's name. Who authorized such insane idea? Can the Division of Motor Vehicles guarantee that my birth certificate is in a safe place, guarded and invisible from harm? I don't think so.
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O geez that sounds like trouble. I spent about $36 getting a copy of my birth certificate. (I had it rushed ordered). I would have to pay more money for more of them. That would not be too pleasent.
This makes anyone uneasy in the mind. Trying to protect yourself from identity theft and here the law changes everything. Giving your personal information away is not what is suppose to happen. But what can you do?