baby's birth cert.....

[mabba 0]

My husband and I are getting ready to file the I-130, and we just had a baby in June, I am not able to file for a report of birth abroad because they are making us take a paternity test (insane!) for some reason, so his birth certificate does not have my husbands name on it which I need before i can file his report of birth and apply for his passport at the embassy.

Basically my question is, can we file the I-130 and start the process without showing the babies birth cert or american citizenship right away??? Can we just add it later??? We have all other papers ready to go, but this balagan with the baby's birth certificate is giving us a headache...........

[Penguin_ie 5,996]

As the baby will be a USC (assuming you, as the USC, have lived in the US long enough), you won't need to show his birth cert at all (though it certainly would count as bonafide evidence at the interview stage).

[mabba 0]

As the baby will be a USC (assuming you, as the USC, have lived in the US long enough), you won't need to show his birth cert at all (though it certainly would count as bonafide evidence at the interview stage).

but should the report of birth abroad be finished before we file the i130???

[Penguin_ie 5,996]

No- I don't think you need to even start the birth abroad process before filing the I-130, though at interview they may ask why you haven't started it, if you are still not ready by then.

We filed for the twin's birth in May and got an appointment to go to the embassy in July. We then filed for my IR-1 in June, and I had the interview for that a couple of weeks after I was at the embassy for the twins. The guards remembered me

[mabba 0]

No- I don't think you need to even start the birth abroad process before filing the I-130, though at interview they may ask why you haven't started it, if you are still not ready by then.

We filed for the twin's birth in May and got an appointment to go to the embassy in July. We then filed for my IR-1 in June, and I had the interview for that a couple of weeks after I was at the embassy for the twins. The guards remember

Wow thanks....I didn't know it took that long for the Babys bit. What exactly is the process since u have been through all of this already........ I have a sealed high school transcript and my passport..... That should be proof enough...,

[Penguin_ie 5,996]

I think it only took us this long because the embassy only does the consular births abroad appointments once or twice a month, so there was a backlog. In other embassies, you may be able to do walk-in appointments, though I doubt this would be possible in Israel due to security issues.

My husband (the USC) had to fill in a short form which he got off the US embassy's website and sent that off to the embassy with a photocopy of his passport and the twins birth certs and our marriage cert. We then got a letter to come in, we both had to be there and the kids too, and bring the originals of the above certs. Paid the money, swore to the truth of everything we filled in, and got the consular birth certs on the day, and the passports in the post a couple of weeks later, and their social security numbers came from the US another week or so later. Only very minor hic-up was that they asked my husband for proof that he had been in the US long enough (such as tax records, highschool or college transcripts), but he didn't have any of that as his docs got lost on the move to Ireland- only thing he had was an expired Arkansas drivers liscence. They took his word for it though. I guess his Southern accent counts for something

[MargotDarko 0]

Just to confirm, you've lived in the US for at least five years, and at least two of those years after you were 14, right? That's what makes the baby a USC automatically.

[mabba 0]

Just to confirm, you've lived in the US for at least five years, and at least two of those years after you were 14, right? That's what makes the baby a USC automatically.

Yes of course....I have only been in Israel for one year! But thank you for checking up!

[MargotDarko 0]

Just to confirm, you've lived in the US for at least five years, and at least two of those years after you were 14, right? That's what makes the baby a USC automatically.

Yes of course....I have only been in Israel for one year! But thank you for checking up!

Good to hear! It seems more sensible for any baby of a USC to just be a USC so a lot of people aren't aware of the rule.