MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Medford resident Vanessa Driskell has finally located her long-lost birth certificate.
Driskell has spent the past four years trying to obtain the document to prove her U.S. citizenship.
The certificate was found in a warehouse in Illinois. That’s where the U.S. Air Force had stored it and other documents after it evacuated Clark Air Base in the Philippines when Mount Pinatubo erupted there on June 15, 1991.
Driskell was born on the base, where her father was stationed at the time.
Finding the document means that the 21-year-old Driskell can now obtain a driver’s license, cash a check without a hassle and apply for a passport so she can live her dream of traveling abroad.
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Information from: Mail Tribune, http://www.mailtribune.com/
