It's a sheila of geneivas daas for sure and anyway I'm not making a passport. I only need a consular report of birth to get a ss# for my kids so I can file my tax return so I can get my refund. I pay taxes every month to the US bec. I work for a US org. So my taxes they are getting, but my refund at this rate I can wait the better part of a year. It looks like I'm being penalized for living in Israel that I have to wait 5+ months to get an ss# for my kids. What can I do?