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Proposed Passport Questionnaire Asks 'Are You Circumcised?'
by Alex Alvarez | 4:34 pm, April 26th, 2011

The State Department is proposing a slew of new questions for the questionnaire required to obtain a U.S. passport. They'd run the gamut from the annoying (Everyone remembers all of his childhood addresses, right?), to the perplexing (What was your mother's address one year before and after your birth?), to the exceedingly personal (So, uh. Hey. Are you circumcised?).

Th questionnaire is meant for those who are applying for a United States passport, but do not have a birth certificate. And while answering the questions is optional (How, after all, are adopted children supposed to find out their mothers' place of employment at the time they were born?), not answering them could lead to processing delays or flat-out denials when it comes to obtaining a passport.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/proposed-passport-questionnaire-asks-are-you-circumcised/

The questionnaire is meant to take 45 minutes to fill out – assuming you have the telephone number of every boss you've ever had right at your disposal.