Yes. In the UK they call them certified copies. US must have something similar.
Just my two centsâ worth, just a shot in the dark, please disregard it if it doesnât appear helpful:
I wonder if it might be all right to go ahead and politely present an authenticated document to TECO anywayâi. e., TECOâs preemptive rejection notwithstanding 
âand then if TECO rejects the document, I wonder if one possible next step might be to tactfully explain your problem to AIT, and to tactfully ask AIT for further instructions or information.
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This sounds like a communication problem, or possibly an instance of an official being an idiot. Thereâs no such thing as an âoriginalâ of these things in most countries - As Bree said, whatever is issued by the government, based on records held centrally, is the official certificate. I think Taiwan is the same in this regard, so they ought to understand the basic concept. Iâm pretty sure nobody expects you to have a perfectly-preserved, decades-old piece of paper.
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Where did they say the school will be closed perpetually? Itâs closed now because itâs almost summer vacation anyway so they might as well just close schools until the summer vacation is over.
Mask is here to say for a while (which I donât see what the big deal is), but tourism will be open soon. Not in summer, but in a few months it will be.
You can order a brand new one online through your State Bureau of Vital Statistics. Have it sent to your parentâs house.
Iâve done this before. Itâs extremely simple.
Here are some examples.
https://doh.wa.gov/licenses-permits-and-certificates/vital-records
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Covid Stats For 2022-06-30
Local = 38,846
Imported = 96
Deaths = 118
Current Severity of Symptoms Statistics
Local Cases By Districts (Interactive Map)
Table Of New Deaths From COVID-19 In Taiwan
https://covid-19.nchc.org.tw/deathstatistics.php?dt_name=1&downloadall=yes
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Finally some good news! 
Guy
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Probably something involving rubber gloves.
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Brilliant. Strong winds today - must be fun out on the water.
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Sorry your parents are not being given the service they deserve.
I left a power of attorney with my parents so they can apply for bureaucratic stuff like this abroad. Can that be helpful for you?
The minister himself said that they have to wait until all the golden children studying abroad come back for summer. Hotels have to be open for them because they need 24/7 service.
Hence the tourists can come in a bit later on.
118 COVID-19 Deaths Reported on June 30, 2022
Gender
Female = 56 (47.46%)
Male = 62 (52.54%)
Age Distribution
90s = 27 (22.88%)
80s = 40 (33.90%)
70s = 26 (22.03%)
60s = 12 (10.17%)
50s = 8 (6.78%)
40s = 3 (2.54%)
30s = 1 (0.85%)
20s = 1 (0.85%)
Vaccination Doses
0 = 53 (44.92%)
1 = 13 (11.02%)
2 = 9 (7.63%)
3 = 41 (34.75%)
4 = 2 (1.69%)
Chronic Disease History
Yes = 115 (97.46%)
None = 3 (2.54%)
Vaccine Status For Deaths With No Chronic Disease History
0 = 3 (Ages - 90s, 60s, 40s)
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Does anyone know the total number of deaths in kids under the age of 18 (or 12) in Taiwan? Iâve done some googling and canât find it.
A few of those fatalities listed above are indicated as having received 12 (twelve!) vaccine doses.
Guy
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That must obviously be a mistake? Thereâs no way nine people on there could have had 12 doses (especially as none of the others had more than four).
Besides, 12 doses probably grants one immortality.
Ouch!
Guy
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Holy crap. I gotta check that in the morning.
Had to be an error in my translation program.
Wait. I see what happened. Someone at the CECC uploaded their master Excel database for the entire month of June instead of a PDF for just the 30th. I downloaded it before they corrected their error and removed the link. My translation program must have taken values from their drop down menus and/or other days of the month instead of from the regular form fields for just the 30th.
Computers. Gotta love them!
Iâll fix it tomorrow.
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All corrected.
For some strange reason, the main database they uploaded confused my translation program and added a â1â before those who had 2 doses of COVID-19 vaccinations and made them â12â. LOL Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
As an aside, Iâd like to whinge about the CECC and their abysmal daily reports.
It appears that they have multiple people working on it and not one person who is in charge to keep things consistent. For example, sometimes they type in âStrokeâ or âCancerâ or for a chronic disease history for some of the cases, but then on the same report, they input "Stroke, etc. and âCancer, etc.â or âCancer metastasisâ for other cases. Itâs really frickinâ annoying to program my translator to catch all this added crap.
When it gets to the column on Symptoms, the inconsistency is really fucked up and time consuming. They really need to standardize the report to make it easier for themselves and especially for me. I mean, come onâŠâburnoutâ, âexhaustionâ, âtiredâ, âgeneral tirednessâ, âweakâ, âweaknessâ, âwheezâ, âwheezingâ. Chabuduo!
The only standard thing about Taiwan is that there are no standards!
Edit: You know,I wonder if the underling who uploaded the master database yesterday got in trouble. I have access to everything, so I can see how they made their database and although Iâm not a computer programmer, I could have done a much better job standardizing how the data is presented. I meanâŠis âSurveyâ (still under investigation) really a symptom? Should it be there? Looks like a bunch of filler/boiler plate crap. They simply could have written âUnknownâ. Is âDiagnosed at residential facilityâ a symptom? No. OkâŠgotta stop the whingingâŠit is what it isâŠtime to go outsideâŠguess Iâll put on my mask!
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Yeah, youâre right about all this. Their daily reports are pretty ugly to look at (overlapping and/or vague terms, inconsistent capitalization, stuff in the âsymptomsâ column that arenât symptomsâŠ).
Wait, are you making/translating these PDF files? I thought they were coming from the CDC itself.
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