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jmeng   0

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I have just applied for naturalization about a week ago. One of the documents required for the interview is passport of the original country. I have never travelled outside of the US requiring visa, thus never used my passport. It has been lost for long time and never cared to get another one. Unfortunately, I have lost birth certificate as well. So when i tried to contact my embassy to get replacement for this purpose, they required me to get the birth certificate to show that I am a citizen of the country before they could present me with a replacement passport. So my question is that Is it absolutely necessary to have the passport? Why do they need passport for? What can I do in this case? I could go ahead and start the process of getting the passport but the problem is that I have to request my birth certificate first in person or through a power of attorney. I really do not have family or friends in that country to ask them to do it for me. I have been out since my pre-teen years and been here for 20+ years. Please advice!!!!

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Ask your embassy about how to get a replacement for a birth certificate.

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Ask your embassy about how to get a replacement for a birth certificate.

I asked them and they told me i need to have a power of attorney to go directly to the office back in the country and apply for it.

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I have just applied for naturalization about a week ago. One of the documents required for the interview is passport of the original country. I have never travelled outside of the US requiring visa, thus never used my passport. It has been lost for long time and never cared to get another one. Unfortunately, I have lost birth certificate as well. So when i tried to contact my embassy to get replacement for this purpose, they required me to get the birth certificate to show that I am a citizen of the country before they could present me with a replacement passport. So my question is that Is it absolutely necessary to have the passport? Why do they need passport for? What can I do in this case? I could go ahead and start the process of getting the passport but the problem is that I have to request my birth certificate first in person or through a power of attorney. I really do not have family or friends in that country to ask them to do it for me. I have been out since my pre-teen years and been here for 20+ years. Please advice!!!!

Since you never traveled after becoming an LPR (or in the last five years), the interviewing officer might not want to see your passport. But it might be also the case that the officer wants to see the passport to verify that there are no entry-exit stamps in it and that what you are claiming is correct.

When you lost your passport, did you file a police report that it is lost or stolen? If yes, you might take that report to your interview and show it to the officer in case the passport issue comes up.

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I AM NOT THAT GUY   5,715

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I have just applied for naturalization about a week ago. One of the documents required for the interview is passport of the original country. I have never travelled outside of the US requiring visa, thus never used my passport. It has been lost for long time and never cared to get another one. Unfortunately, I have lost birth certificate as well. So when i tried to contact my embassy to get replacement for this purpose, they required me to get the birth certificate to show that I am a citizen of the country before they could present me with a replacement passport. So my question is that Is it absolutely necessary to have the passport? Why do they need passport for? What can I do in this case? I could go ahead and start the process of getting the passport but the problem is that I have to request my birth certificate first in person or through a power of attorney. I really do not have family or friends in that country to ask them to do it for me. I have been out since my pre-teen years and been here for 20+ years. Please advice!!!!

They need the passport as a record of your travels over the last three/five years to determine residency.

However, your greencard should provide that same information of whether or not you passed through an entry point.

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If you have not traveled out of the country in the past 5 years, have not used your passport in the past 5 years, then you don't need your passport. There is no law in the United States that would require anybody, citizen or LPR, to hold a valid passport!

The I.O. likes to see your passport to check for entry stamps in there. If you have "0" days outside the United States and state that you have replaced your passport over 5 years ago, it's a non issue.

Nothing to lose sleep over.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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