One of the letters that the Census Office has sent out.
~ Census: 7,650 personal records incomplete ~
PHILIPSBURG--Scores of residents, including Dutch nationals and naturalized citizens living in St. Maarten for, in many cases, decades, are frustrated and up in arms about letters received from the Department of Civil Registry (Census Office) requesting that they provide their legalised birth certificates not older than three years, within six months, or they will be unable to retrieve any product from the department.