Birth Certificate for Daughter

[leslyjo85 0]

I was just reading a review saying that applicants were denied at their interviews because the father's name was not on the child's birth certificate. My fiance and I have a daughter together. She was born in Iowa in the US. They do not allow you to place the father's name on the birth certificate here if you are not married. The only way to change this is if the father is here..in the US...to sign and notarize the forms necessary to add him. I do have a form signed and stamped by a JP with Orville claiming paternity for Hailey but my state will not accept this to add his name. Will they really deny us because of his name not being on the birth certificate? Would it be better to just not include Hailey on the forms as his child? I feel like that would be lying. Any advice is appreciated!!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

I was just reading a review saying that applicants were denied at their interviews because the father's name was not on the child's birth certificate. My fiance and I have a daughter together. She was born in Iowa in the US. They do not allow you to place the father's name on the birth certificate here if you are not married. The only way to change this is if the father is here..in the US...to sign and notarize the forms necessary to add him. I do have a form signed and stamped by a JP with Orville claiming paternity for Hailey but my state will not accept this to add his name. Will they really deny us because of his name not being on the birth certificate? Would it be better to just not include Hailey on the forms as his child? I feel like that would be lying. Any advice is appreciated!!

Your daughter, born in Iowa, is a US citizen. She is not in need of a visa and how could it possibly matter. You will not need to show her birth certificate or even mention that she exists if you do not want to, except your fiancee needs to count her in family size for the I-134. I suspect the situation you read about had nothing to do with your case. You cannot read "reports" of other cases and pick out small details and apply them to your case and then panic.

I can imagine a possible problem for the other case...Try to use a baby as "proof of ongoing realtionship", fathers name not on the birth certificate, no other substantial evidcence...you lose.

Babies are NOT good evidence of ongoing realtionship. They are evidence (with sufficient DNA testing) that you had sexual intercourse with the mother and nothing else. Maybe you are helping to support the baby, or other fatherly things...great. SHOW THAT. It doesn't matter WHO the father of the baby is! We used my contributions to my wife's sons (kills me to phrase it that way, they are OUR sons) for the K-1 and now we are gatherimng evidence of my participation in our sons lives (school records, etc.) for the I-751 process. I am NOT the biological father and it makes NO DIFFERENCE, to me, to them, or to the US government. How on earth could my wife's ex-husband (and the FATHER of the children) use them as proof of ongoing relationship when he hasn't spoken to them in more than a year???

I wouldn't even worry about mentioning the baby, the birth certificate or anything else. Get your focus off the baby-father BS and get it back where it belongs. Prove your ongoing realtionship WITH THE PETITIONER.

If I mixed things up and you are the USC petitioner...sorry, the advice is the same...you get the picture, yes?

Edited October 24, 2009 by Gary and Alla

[NatPatBen 3]

In case my review was one of the ones you read that caused panic, never fear!

That's applicable in cases where a child was trying to come to the USA based on his/her father... but if the father's name isn't on the birth certificate, who's to say whether that is his offspring or not.

For example, someone else I know is filing for a man & his children. But he wasn't on the BC of one, so he had to take care of that first.

[MsSheka 0]

I was just reading a review saying that applicants were denied at their interviews because the father's name was not on the child's birth certificate. My fiance and I have a daughter together. She was born in Iowa in the US. They do not allow you to place the father's name on the birth certificate here if you are not married. The only way to change this is if the father is here..in the US...to sign and notarize the forms necessary to add him. I do have a form signed and stamped by a JP with Orville claiming paternity for Hailey but my state will not accept this to add his name. Will they really deny us because of his name not being on the birth certificate? Would it be better to just not include Hailey on the forms as his child? I feel like that would be lying. Any advice is appreciated!!

Wow! i added my husband to my son's birth certificate without him being here before we got married and the state of florida gave me a form and i took it to JA and the JP notarized it for us but i guess its different in each state ...but back to the issue they cannot deny him because his name is not on the birth certificate they may ask but they cannot deny him so please include the child if you don't then that might raise a red flag GOOD LUCK!

[leslyjo85 0]

I was just reading a review saying that applicants were denied at their interviews because the father's name was not on the child's birth certificate. My fiance and I have a daughter together. She was born in Iowa in the US. They do not allow you to place the father's name on the birth certificate here if you are not married. The only way to change this is if the father is here..in the US...to sign and notarize the forms necessary to add him. I do have a form signed and stamped by a JP with Orville claiming paternity for Hailey but my state will not accept this to add his name. Will they really deny us because of his name not being on the birth certificate? Would it be better to just not include Hailey on the forms as his child? I feel like that would be lying. Any advice is appreciated!!

Wow! i added my husband to my son's birth certificate without him being here before we got married and the state of florida gave me a form and i took it to JA and the JP notarized it for us but i guess its different in each state ...but back to the issue they cannot deny him because his name is not on the birth certificate they may ask but they cannot deny him so please include the child if you don't then that might raise a red flag GOOD LUCK!

We also got a stamped and certified statement from a JP that Orville is her father. My state said that was not good enough. She is coming to the interview and she looks just like him so I think that will help....I am also including the document from the JP. Thank you for helping to ease my fears!!