Louise Bremner wrote:
> Kevin Wayne Williams <kww.nihongo@verizon.nut> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Louise Bremner wrote:
>>
>>>Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>I thought the "certain gentleman" was referring to actual flights?
>>>
>>>
>>>Yeah, well, that could get confusing. I go by number of visas obtained
>>>(not applied for, note).
>>
>>So the first few years of my life didn't count as being there at all?
> 
> 
> Weren't you written into your mother's passport and hence included into
> her visa, as soon as she registered you at your embassy? Or is the
> registration of alien infants a relatively recent requirement? 

I'm not sure how recent it is, but I'm sure that I wasn't. The Americans 
were still a quasi-occupying force at the time, so they were given 
significant deference by the Japanese government. US military personnel 
didn't require passports at all.

When I moved to the Antilles, there was all kinds of trouble with my 
birth certificate. The Antilleans wanted an apostilled copy of my birth 
certificate. What I have is a Foreign Service FS-240, "Report of Live 
Birth Abroad."  There are only three copies of my FS-240: one at the 
Tokyo Consulate, one at the State Department, and one in my hands. It is 
illegal to copy it, and the State Department will *not* apostille it. 
They say that you can only apostille a copy, and all three that exist 
are originals. In the 1980s the State Department came up with a new form 
that they would apostille. In order for me to emigrate, the State 
Department made me a new birth certificate using the later form, and 
then apostilled it as genuine. They weren't very good at it ... the 
first one was missing a signature and had my name spelled incorrectly.

KWW