SANTA ANA, Calif. (KABC) — Within the wake of President Donald Trump’s government orders on immigration, it seems some households with combined citizenship standing are getting their essential paperwork in line simply in case of separation.
The Orange County Clerk-Recorder Workplace is seeing a rise in doc requests. And now, to assist, the data workplace is hitting the highway. The “Clerk-on-Wheels” is the newest device the workplace has to assist facilitate the method of getting very important data.
O.C. Clerk-Recorder Hugh Nguyen stated he was excited to deliver the van and providers to the neighborhood. Beginning and loss of life certificates and marriage licenses had been simply among the paperwork the Clerk-Recorder-on-Wheels can course of remotely throughout the county.
The van’s subsequent cellular occasion and ribbon chopping was scheduled for Saturday, April 26, at Magnolia Excessive Faculty in Anaheim.
Nguyen stated the brand new service would assist deal with an elevated demand for data.
“It has been very busy in any respect our places in Laguna Hills, Anaheim and right here in Santa Ana,” he stated.
In keeping with the clerk’s workplace, this 12 months, from January by way of the third week of April, there was a virtually 30% bounce in passports requested, in comparison with the identical interval in 2024. And a rise of just about 20% in delivery certificates requests.
Nguyen advised Eyewitness Information he did not know the trigger behind the elevated demand, however the Community Coordinator with the O.C. Fast Response Community, Sandra De Anda, stated she has heard from extra callers looking for data on passports and delivery certificates.
“Southeast Asian communities, the Meena neighborhood, Latino communities, even japanese European communities, simply the extensive spectrum of the immigrant and refugee expertise right here in Orange County,” De Anda stated.
Most are O.C. households with combined immigration standing, trying to construct their preparedness plan and have essential paperwork in line, in case of separation.
“To have a safe plan in case, you recognize, one of many guardians experiences deportation or detainment,” De Anda stated.
Different emergencies embody eventualities similar to pure disasters, all requiring elevated entry to very important data.
“If there’s an emergency in Orange County, we’ll be capable of take the van and we’ll be capable of really print their delivery certificates, marriage certificates, loss of life certificates, or actual property paperwork instantly for the folks in Orange County,” Nguyen stated.
The “Clerk-On-Wheels” is cash-free, so Nguyen needed to remind folks to be ready with different types of fee.
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