Possibility of DOB Modification on Transcripts: A Rare Backdoors Opportunity to Use ASAP
We
all can agree that many (shy to say most) educated Nigerians use multiple dates
of birth through different stages of their schooling, and while they may easily
escape having problems from the effects of having multiple dates of birth on
different documents through the rest of their life if they are not so ambitious
and they don’t intend to go places, they wouldn’t be able to easily escape facing
problems from the effects of multiple dates of birth on different documents if
they are very ambitious, they want to go higher career-wise, and they want to go
places.
The
salt on this injury (a.k.a. the bottom of the iceberg) is their academic transcript
(the most important academic document for someone trying to go higher or/and go
places) carrying a different DOB from other documents; employers would take it up
against them, embassies would take it up against them, in fact, all important formal
settings would take it up against them. The implication of this is: no moving upward
or forward easily lest something is done to modify the wrong DOB! Hence, a
solution is needed.
One
of the solutions one would quickly think of would be the owner of the transcript
complaining to the school about the wrong DOB on their transcript and the
school changing it to the person’s preferred DOB… easy stuff, yea? Nope! You
sef think ham twice, you would realise that is very impossible, and it’s an
abuse of record and information systems. Your DOB is part of your biodata, in
fact, the most expected-to-be-an-unchanging-fact of everything on your biodata;
if it needs to change, something fishy is around the cause of the error or/and
around the need for the change. This is why formal settings cannot allow change
of DOB or make it so easy to change. This is also the same rebuttal countering
every reason one would come up with as to why formal settings should allow DOB medication,
why formal settings should not put DOB on transcripts, and why formal settings
would like to know your DOB and keep record of it.
Need
to slide this information in: it’s only one or two higher institutions in
Nigeria that doesn’t put DOB on transcripts (their own way of making the
problems coming from wrong DOB on your trancript easy), but if they were asked
for verification by any formal setting you have submitted their document to,
they would state your DOB in the verification; hence, your problem of wrong DOB
on that document springs up again! So, it is safe to say no formal solution for
this problem yet; only a backdoor solution. The thing there is, backdoors are
never always open.
Knowing
that there exist only backdoor solutions to wrong DOB on your academic documents,
you must also know that the backdoors are never permanently available; people
get removed from or leave the offices and positions needed for this, and new
people get placed in the offices and positions needed for this. One change can turn
what is easily done at one school to what is difficult to do or what is
impossible to do at a certain time or for a very long time. This is why, if you
are having such problem, and you see any backdoor opportunity to solve it, take
it fast! It may be your only opportunity to remove what may block your upward
and forward mobility for so long or forever. Do three things after reading
this: 1. Think of the things that weren’t outrightly said on this write-up
because of the need to code such information; 2. Do with the information what’s
good for you and your progess; and 3. Do it ASAP… like, take a step towards it right
now! +2348139534187.
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