You ask, ‘where do you get your stories from?’. The answer, simply, is from my own experience. What about you? Have you had a baby in Algeria? It really wouldn’t make sense that the Arabic copy would come second to the French copy, because Algeria’s first language is Arabic! Both copies came at the same time. I am not sure why anyone would have to wait 2-3 weeks for an original version when they are both produced straight after the birth. It was up to my husband, however, to register them and have the name(s) put in the little green family book, which only took a couple of hours.

Thanks for reading!

I can’t argue your point about how sophisticated the system is. Although, in my case, when my daughter was born, it was not a clerk, but my husband and midwife fillling out the forms.

The one part of the system, I definitely feel could be improved upon, is that they hand write and hand copy all the documents. Leaving much room for human error. But, then hand written and non-digitized systems may be better until they eradicate more of the corruption here. It seems digital documents seem more easily manipulated than paper.

Nice to hear from you, Cari!