I went to the King County Department of Vital Statistics today to try to correct Lonan Kai’s birth certificate. I do not actually have a copy of it, but I know it must be wrong because we have been getting a lot of mail with his last name spelled incorrectly (such as his Social Security card). Which I planned on fixing today as well. This problem is in addition to other name manglings that have occurred. Of course, it is hard to prove who you are when your birth certificate itself is wrong, so that must be fixed first. As a parent, apparently I can simply change the name on the birth certificate since it is within some time period and I was merely changing the last name to a parent’s name.
I did not have to prove my identification, however. Weird.
There was at least a day’s turnaround time since the correction had to be done/approved/whatever in Olympia, so I could not deal with his other name problems yet.