My wife's birth certificate was lost in a typhoon. So, she had her mom go get one recreated. It spelled her name wrong, and had the wrong birthdate. We ran all the paperwork to match it, thereby avoiding those delays. She recently got citizenship, and decided to get all that stuff fixed. Her mom had the birth certificate redone with the correct info, and she used it to get everything corrected as she went along. I can't imagine the hassle we avoided.
