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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a legitimate document" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a document that is valid, authentic, or recognized as official.
Example: "Before proceeding with the transaction, please ensure that you have a legitimate document to verify your identity."
Alternatives: "an authentic document" or "a valid document."
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The sole photograph Julia possessed of Martin was on page 14 of the 1998 Fidelity newsletter, a legitimate document to have floating around the house.
"The school then decided through its administrator that that [Yidindji birth certificate] was a legitimate document and they have now allowed Thoyo to enter the school..
In part, the connection between legitimacy and survival is reciprocal: framers and citizens will be more attached to a legitimate document, and documents that survive will in turn engender norms of attachment.
But when he arrived in Liberia in 2003, accompanied by Canadian immigration officials and with a travel certificate in hand from the Liberian embassy in Ghana, he was denied entry into the country by Liberian officials, who claimed that only the embassy in Washington could issue a legitimate document, and that what he had was fake.
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Except that Kosovars could point to a legitimate, documented trail of Serbian abuses before they declared independence.
Describing the playbook as a "very legitimate document", he added: "The tendency for the Islamic State to act as a state is growing.
In fact, the interview largely centered on the right-wing think tank response to the IPCC report, the NIPCC report, which is neither a legitimate scientific document, nor skeptical.
And the subpoena that Mitchell had signed appeared to be a legitimate legal document; some of his fellow-plaintiffs in the lawsuit, including Renata Singleton, discovered that the "subpoenas" they'd received from the D.A.'s office might not be lawful in the first place.
Educated people have more opportunities to find a good job, to get out of poverty and above all to obtain legitimate documents and migrate legally.
Second, D.M.V. workers are unlikely to sort out immigration rules and recognize all the legitimate documents.
They arrived in the country alone or in pairs, using legitimate documents and sometimes false identities.
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