"Have you EVER" include before US entry?

[mzswing 0]

It seems to me the the bold type "ever" on the "have you commited a crime" questions would mean to include your whole life...but I just want to make sure. I mean...we went through the whole waiver process because of the car accident (no alcohol, unsafe pedestrien crossing, but bad lawyer, bad system = manslaughter conviction) and it would be great if we could consider that a closed chapter. It was more than 10 years ago now... And the thing is, they ask for court certified copies, which we have, but we only have ONE copy and it's all in Spanish. Would we have to get a certified translation?

Thanks!

[Lansbury 19]

It seems to me the the bold type "ever" on the "have you commited a crime" questions would mean to include your whole life...but I just want to make sure. I mean...we went through the whole waiver process because of the car accident (no alcohol, unsafe pedestrien crossing, but bad lawyer, bad system = manslaughter conviction) and it would be great if we could consider that a closed chapter. It was more than 10 years ago now... And the thing is, they ask for court certified copies, which we have, but we only have ONE copy and it's all in Spanish. Would we have to get a certified translation?

Thanks!

Yes it will have to be included on the N-400

Edited August 28, 2010 by Lansbury

[justashooter 430]

agreed that this is in regard to your entire lifespan.

you should contact the court that issued the finding in your case, and the penal system you served in. get a certified copy of the court finding and a copy of your record of completed sentence, then get these translated by a certified translator. this will not prevent you from obtaining citizenship, but ANY failure to diclose will. USCIS will see this in their inspection before adjudication, and a failure to report is material misrepresentation that could even result in revocation of your current status.

[mzswing 0]

We have a thick court-certified copy of the entire record. It is the only one we have and it was difficult to obtain. It would be even MORE difficult to get another one since it happened in Mexico, and we don't live there anymore. I am nervous about sending the ONLY original we have. Does anyone know if it would suffice to send a notarized copy of the document and then bring the original to the interview?

And about the translation: I hold a B.S.Ed. in Foreign Language Education/ Spanish. The exact wording from the Guide to Naturalization is:

Be sure to send an English

translation with any document

that is not already in English.

The translation must include a

statement from the translator that

he or she is competent to

translate and that the translation

is correct.

So, since I am competent, does that mean I can do the translation as long as I include the required statement?

[milimelo 4,582]

We have a thick court-certified copy of the entire record. It is the only one we have and it was difficult to obtain. It would be even MORE difficult to get another one since it happened in Mexico, and we don't live there anymore. I am nervous about sending the ONLY original we have. Does anyone know if it would suffice to send a notarized copy of the document and then bring the original to the interview?

And about the translation: I hold a B.S.Ed. in Foreign Language Education/ Spanish. The exact wording from the Guide to Naturalization is:

Be sure to send an English

translation with any document

that is not already in English.

The translation must include a

statement from the translator that

he or she is competent to

translate and that the translation

is correct.

So, since I am competent, does that mean I can do the translation as long as I include the required statement?

Never send originals - send in the copy - your translation should be enough. Bring originals to the interview.

[NickD 203]

Never send originals - send in the copy - your translation should be enough. Bring originals to the interview.

We used all of our back forms from the AOS and ROC stages to fill out the N-400, actually, most of it was a copy and paste operation using Adobe Pro version of Acrobat. Recalled then, my wife had to go to her former countries police station getting a police report saying she didn't do anything wrong for the AOS.

Didn't you already go through this before? The N-400 form redefines the meaning of redundancy. Matter of fact, looked up reduncancy in my picture dictionary, showed a picture of the N-400.