At 01:14 PM 02/03/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>I have an aquaintance here in town who visited Canada last summer and
>unfortunately while there she went in to labor and had her baby  a month
>prematurely. The dilema is that she is trying to file her tax return and she
>needs a social security # , the U.S. says "we need to see a birth
>certificate" so she calls the hospitol in Canada and they tell her,  " we
>need a social security # to give you a birth certificate" What the hell is
>going on here? Is there any list members who are familiar with the procedure
>for getting a social security # in Canada? It sounds like a fight between
>countries for the "citizenship " of this 6 month old baby! How
>ridiculous...what is this world coming too? Any help would be appreciated.
>Tom

I say leave him/her undocumented. With a bit of ingenuity he/she could live
his/her whole life with few if any taxes. He/she would then have enough
money to keep the Vanagon going when your pass it on to him/her.