Registering at foreign consulate

[MHandMB 0]

Hey everyone,

I was just wondering if any of your husbands who have arrived in the US have registered at their home country's consulate/embassy? Amed is wanting to register at the Algerian embassy, and they are asking for some pretty extensive stuff- a certified copy of his father's birth certificate, his birth certificate, marriage certificate, etc.

The thing I am wondering about is that it asks for a "notarized copy of the alien registration card ("greencard") or U.S. Passport." How do you notarize a copy of something? I myself am a notary and we can only notarize signatures, not authenticate documents.

Does anyone know if there is a way of getting a certified copy of a greencard? I looked on the USCIS website, but didn't find anything. I would rather not have to contact immigration again if I don't have to. Am I making this harder than it should be?

Thanks for your thoughts!

[~kiyah~ 14]

I'm not sure about the "other" documents and have them make a copy and certify (notarize) it is a copy of the original, or even the USCIS (infopass) and have them make a copy of it and notarize that it is a copy of the original document.

Strange though about the other documents they want just to register his green card with them. But then again, I guess that is their prerogative what they require.

Hope you're able to sort it all out.

~Kiyah~

[~Jess~ 0]

We had to certify copies of our marriage cert and some other stuff for my residency here in lebanon and we had to take the orig to the american embassy citizen services and the officer made copies and signed them certified and we ended up payin near 130 for like 4 or 5 documents................hope that helps

[mybackpages 0]

Hey everyone,

I was just wondering if any of your husbands who have arrived in the US have registered at their home country's consulate/embassy? Amed is wanting to register at the Algerian embassy, and they are asking for some pretty extensive stuff- a certified copy of his father's birth certificate, his birth certificate, marriage certificate, etc.

The thing I am wondering about is that it asks for a "notarized copy of the alien registration card ("greencard") or U.S. Passport." How do you notarize a copy of something? I myself am a notary and we can only notarize signatures, not authenticate documents.

Does anyone know if there is a way of getting a certified copy of a greencard? I looked on the USCIS website, but didn't find anything. I would rather not have to contact immigration again if I don't have to. Am I making this harder than it should be?

Thanks for your thoughts!

Can't you write a statement that the copies of the documents attached are authentic and unaltered and have that notorized? Just trying to make a best guess at what might work. Didn't know a notary could only notarize a signature!