Adopted and Papers for Montreal Interview?!!!

[julesrose 0]

For Packet 3 from the Montreal Consulate, we are required to have our Birth Certificate. I was adopted from Romania when I was a baby but I am a Canadian Citizen.

My mother (adoptive) has my birth certificate somewhere but ya you guessed it....it's written in Romanian!!!

Same with all my adoption papers (which my mom has to find!!!)

Anyone know anything about this or something similar!?!? Do I need those papers? Do they need to be translated?!?!

HELP PLEASE!!!

[belinda63 3,022]

Most likely (though others feel free to chime in) the will have to be translated and certified.

[VanessaTony 3,567]

As your birth mother isn't your mother anymore, but she's on your birth certificate, then you WILL need to provide the adoption papers proving your mother is your mother (and hence you are Canadian) as well as your birth certificate and it's translations. The reason for this being on your paperwork it asks for your parents names, and it also asks for your birth certificate. If you don't provide adoption papers then then the names for your "parents" won't match your birth certificate.

http://www.visajourney.com/faq/k1k2visa-application.html#4.8 number 4.8 says "USCIS (INS) will accept a full adoption certificate (instead of a birth certificate). Showing adopting parents names and the same information shown on a birth certificate. The address of where to get these can be obtained from the local Registrar of Births Marriages and Deaths".

I would provide the adoption certificate AND birth certificate if you're able and yes, translations for all. I don't think just "anyone" can do the translation so perhaps someone else can help out here on where a good place to get a translation is.

Edited January 20, 2010 by Vanessa&Tony

[canadian_wife 1,808]

Yes, you'll need your birth certificate and adoption papers (translations as well) for your petition.

Good luck.