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Is the proof of citizenship must be Original ?

By rose.rose in Passports, etc. - What to do now that you are a US citizen

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floridadave   195

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2 hours ago, Gary_UK said:

Important point to note on sending that certificate. 

 

When I applied for my passport last year, i heard horror stories of the cert being folded by the passport people on return.

 

The postal / passport office i went through was nice enough to put post-it notes on the cert and notes on the envelope to not bend it. 

 

Amazingly a week or so after my US passport arrived my certificate returned in a cardboard backed envelope and was unscathed ! :D

 

Hope you are as fortunate as I was.

Good points!  

 

My wife was lucky too, no cardboard but they returned her cert. unharmed in a large envelope.  On my side, I just renewed my passport.  My old passport was not returned at first, but several days later it was returned in a medium size brown envelope with two holes punched in the front cover and bio page.  Looked as though someone punched holes for those file prong holders for filing away my application/old passport, then someone may have reviewed the stuff and decided to return my old passport.  Anyway, glad they did, lots of travel memories with all those stamps/visas. 

 

Good luck everyone!

Note:  I am the U.S. citizen sponsor.  All info below applies to my immigrant wife.

______________________________________________________________________________________

I-130 (CR1)

April 13, 2011: Married in China.
February 2, 2012: Interview 09:30 a.m. APPROVED!!!
March 2, 2012: POE JFK
March 17, 2012: Received SSN card.
April 5, 2012: 2-yr Green Card in hand

________________________________________________________________________

I-751 (ROC)

December 15, 2013: I-751 mailed to USCIS

June 9, 2014: ROC Approved per I-797C received 6-13-2014

June 17, 2014: New 10-yr Green Card in hand!

________________________________________________________________________

N-400
March 29, 2017:  N-400 mailed to USCIS
March 31, 2017: N-400 Received by USCIS per I-797C
April 27, 2017:  Biometrics completed
September 23, 2017:  Received I-797C for interview!

October 24, 2017:  Interview, passed all tests but "decision cannot yet be made"

October 30, 2017:  Received email that Oath ceremony has been scheduled, letter to follow with date and other info. 

                                  USCIS case status updated w/same message as email.

November 2, 2017:  Oath ceremony letter received scheduled for Nov. 7, 2017.

November 7, 2017:  Oath Ceremony, Certificate of U.S. Naturalization in hand!!!

________________________________________________________________________________________

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jkstark   97

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I did decide that I was going to try the "Certified True Copy" route for the passport application, based on the details that the State Department has on their website regarding accepting certified documents in addition to originals...

 

As others have seen, I received a letter back from the passport office stating that they needed the original, and even trying to talk to the brought no other results than a need to send the original.

 

Not being willing to completely cave in to the idea of differing standards on the site vs practice, I wrote a request for assistance to my senator, though I've not yet heard anything back on that.  I did also send the original out for the passport, but thought that it was worth trying to push the idea a little bit further just to get clarification...

 

However, as it stands right now - you still need to send the original NC for a first time passport...

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