AOS application without birth certificate

[rin and john 71]

We are preparing to file for AOS and am wondering if anyone has filed without a birth certificate? Rin does not have one (from Thailand). She was able to use her Thai ID card and tabian baan (house registration) for the visa application at the embassy in Bangkok.

Anyone know what other identification can be submitted with the I-485 instead of the BC?

[YuAndDan 153]

I would submit photo copies of them to prove age and place of birth, as well as a copy of Biometric page from passport.

I suspect that USCIS will accept the notations from State Departments Reciprocity tables.

BIRTH CERTIFICATE

Available. The issuance of birth certificates in Thailand began in Bangkok in 1917. Records of birth are often lacking for people born in Bangkok before World War II and for those born in other areas of the country up until the 1970s. Birth Certificates are issued by "Amphur," (geographic subdivision roughly equivalent to a county in the U.S.) district authorities having jurisdiction over the place of birth. There may be a fee for this service.

A Thai citizen older than 15 and born in Thailand, whose birth was not registered, must present in its stead a household registration, together with a Thai national identity card ("bat prachachon"), and may also be required to submit additional proof of the claimed relationship.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/reciprocity/C.../T/Thailand.htm

[~krakatoa~ 27]

I would submit photo copies of them to prove age and place of birth, as well as a copy of Biometric page from passport.

I suspect that USCIS will accept the notations from State Departments Reciprocity tables.

BIRTH CERTIFICATE

Available. The issuance of birth certificates in Thailand began in Bangkok in 1917. Records of birth are often lacking for people born in Bangkok before World War II and for those born in other areas of the country up until the 1970s. Birth Certificates are issued by "Amphur," (geographic subdivision roughly equivalent to a county in the U.S.) district authorities having jurisdiction over the place of birth. There may be a fee for this service.

A Thai citizen older than 15 and born in Thailand, whose birth was not registered, must present in its stead a household registration, together with a Thai national identity card ("bat prachachon"), and may also be required to submit additional proof of the claimed relationship.

http://travel.state.gov/visa/reciprocity/C.../T/Thailand.htm

Now I am not Thai but I liked this info.