Do you take birth certificate to interview?

[sherywhite 0]

Hi everyone. I have my naturalization interview in two weeks and I read somewhere that ask for your birth certificate. It is not mentioned in the document checklist. Has anyone been asked for it before? Thanks

[almost_umrican 53]

just take your passport as a proof, i will personally would take all the identification docs be it from the US or from a foreign land.

[NexGen 8]

Hi everyone. I have my naturalization interview in two weeks and I read somewhere that ask for your birth certificate. It is not mentioned in the document checklist. Has anyone been asked for it before? Thanks

It is not uncommon for an IO to request documentation that was not included in the checklist. So if you have your birth certificate, then by all means bring a copy along to the interview. Otherwise it is not necessary unless you anticipate issues with your name especially if there are variations in your documents. The idea behind bringing as much proof as possible to the interview is to avoid an RFE and further delays. Best of luck!

[JimmyHou 611]

Hi everyone. I have my naturalization interview in two weeks and I read somewhere that ask for your birth certificate. It is not mentioned in the document checklist. Has anyone been asked for it before? Thanks

Absolutely. Your birth certificate is your proof of your current legal name unless you a have a marriage certificate or a name change certificate to supersede it.

In case your passport, green card, and other IDs have different names on them, you may be asked for your birth certificate. You are allowed to translate the certificate yourself or you can have a friend translate it (I prefer the latter, personally).

In your case, it's a good idea to take the birth certificate because many Egyptian applicants have different formats of their names on different documents. This is because we have have long multi-part names and because Egypt has change the legal naming format over the years from a tripartite name (ism tholathy) to a quadripartite name (ism robaay).