[font face="Verdana"]Here we go... :(
[/font]The U.S. Dept of State is proposing a new Biographical Questionnaire for passport applicants: proposed new Form DS-5513 asks for all addresses since birth; lifetime employment history, personal details of siblings; mother's addresses prior to your birth; any "religious ceremony" around time of birth, circumstances of birth including names (as well as addresses/phone numbers) of persons present, & more. Failure to answer can mean denial of passport, & govt reserves right to use this info for 'routine uses.'
Just call it the "Impossible-to-Complete" form and be done with it. Seriously, do you know all of your mother's addresses prior to your birth? I don't, I couldn't even guess. Do you know the addresses and phone numbers of the persons present at your birth? I don't.
Unable to provide the phone number of your first supervisor when you were a teenager working at McDonalds? That would be a legitimate basis for denial of a passport to a U.S. citizen.
Superb! How long before every other country adopts this wonderful form?