Haiti - fiance unregistered birth

[mama.voltaire 0]

My fiance was born in rural Haiti in 1985, his parents paid the local official to make a birth certificate and register the record in the capital...the birth was never registered in the capital. I am assuming there must be thousands of people in Haiti who face this problem

He has paid a lawyer to make a judgement of the baptismal record issued by the official in the rural village where he was born. From what I can gather this will result in a "negative extrait" from the national archives.

Does anyone have experience with this? I am very worried that this means he will not be given a visa. We have been waiting now for two months since the judgement was issued and the National Archives have not provided us with the negative extrait and the lawyer is not responding to us.

I have emailed the judgement to the US embassy asking if they will accept this so we can proceed with the process but they have not responded.

[Jataveius 1]

Hi,

This is my first post on this forum but I have been going through the immigration process for my mother in law since December 2012. I will be updating my timeline but currently my mother in law application has just completed processing at the NVC and is being sent to the Haiti embassy as of April 10, 2014. Your post actually interested me and has caused me to register just so I can reply to your question. I went through a similar situation. My brother in law is actually the petitioner and he was in need of a birth certificate when we got to the NVC step, we bypassed this request during the I-130 process by doing a DNA.

But when he got to the NVC step they would not substitute his birth ceritifcate with the DNA results. So my brother in law did not have the hand written civil birth certificate which is not accepted anyway by NVC but is required by the National Archives as the initial registration of birth in order for him to get the Extrait acte de naissance. I searched around the net and could not find any resources in the state to get the birth certificate completed in the United States. So I contacted a family member in Port-au-Prince which is where my brother in law was born and they hand to re-register (written version) his birth through the civil offices first which took one day. The hand written birth certificate is then sent to the National Archives (which my family member had to hand deliver to the counter) to register it and he was issued the Extrait acte de naissance in 10 business days, it was registered a as a late birth registration.

Not sure what process you are in but there used to be a company that completed Haitian birth certificates for people abroad their called: Bon Mamit website: http://bonmamit.com/ send them an e-mail and see if they can help. They are based in New Jersey and have offices in Haiti.

I wish you luck, during the process it was hard to find answers to some of my questions when it come Haitian visa process. Hope this helps!

[KayDeeCee 4,893]

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