AOS of Status Procedure. Need clear copy of birth certificate [merged threads]

[K1visaHopeful 2,851]

Your wife came to the US without her own copy of her foreign BC?

[Talako 785]

Just so you know, you can through the whole process only to get a blurry, jacked-up birth certificate copy from PSA.

 

My wife's BC was pretty close to unreadable.  It was stamped best copy possible.  It got us through, but it was messed up.

 

Good luck.

[Lemonslice 4,922]

17 hours ago, JANETandLYLE said:

We hired an attorney here in the USA to do my Wife's AOS. Her passport has expired, and her paperwork was lost or mis-placed. Our Attorney request a Freedom of Information Act from the USA hoping to get NSO copy of my Wife's Birth Certificate. It came back, anbd that copy is also not legible. How did they not have a legible copy of my Wife's Birth Certificate? 

 

Anyway, her Sister in the Philippines tried to go and get a copy of my Wife's birth certificate. Of course they want my Wife's valid ID, which she does not have. All we have now that the Attorney was able to get from the Freedom Of Information act in the USA was a copy of her now expired passport from the Philippine's, which does show who she is. 

 

So how do we go about getting a copy of her NSO Birth Certificate without a valid ID, when all her paperwork is missing? There has to be a way around this. We can show the now valid Philippine Passport for her, her marriage license in the USA from me. 

 

I read something that said that an affidavit from two individuals with personal knowledge is generally accepted if there is no primary or secondary evidence. Anyone know anything about this? Can her Sister who lives in the Philippines and Myself living in the USA do this. Could I show our marriage license and maybe some of her fiancée paperwork that got her to the USA? 

 

There has to be a way for people in this same situation to obtain a copy of their birth certificate without having a VALID ID. As I mentioned, she has an COPY of her expired passport ID from the Philippines, but that is all. Am I going to have to hire an Attorney from the Philippines to attempt to get a copy of her NSO Birth Certificate? Please advise. I am frustrated. Our USA Attorney seems to be lost at this point on how to get a copy of her Philippine Birth certificate. I do have another copy of one, but he says he never seen that kind before, and it doesn't look authentic. He says if we submit it, they may kick it back on us and deny the AOS. Could this copy that is legible be used to show NSO maybe as proof of who my Wife is? Our Attorney ahs already been paid in full to handle this AOS, but I am assuming he won't chase paperwork. Any advice is appreciated. 

What exact steps have you done since you posted a similar question back in March?  Your wife has been out of status for so long, you really have to get on top of it.  Get it done this week, for the love of her.

[Chancy 6,242]

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[JANETandLYLE 11]

"Your wife came to the US without her own copy of her foreign BC?" To answer this, first off, paperwork was misplaced or lost. She did have a copy of her foreign BC. At this point we are trying to get a replacement copy. There is some confusion apparently on what I am asking. Since march we have been working on obtaining a freedom of information act on my Wife through our Attorney. We had hired an Attorney to do the AOS, so much involved there. He has been paid in full, so that is all handled. I now need to figure our how to obtain a copy of her birth certificate that is legible. We had been waiting on this to come back, hoping the copy the US had would be more legible, but it is not. Attorney didn't feel the one we have now would be accepted, and we would be denied or trying to come up with a legible copy, from somewhere. 

 

I meant to say PSA, sorry. What I am seeing on their website is for them to issue my Wife a copy of her birth certificate, they want her to show or produce a valid ID. She doesn't have one to show. What she does have at this point is am expired PH Passport with pic, and a marriage license from the USA. My understanding now is if you can not produce either, they are open to accepting two affidavit's from two people who actually know her. I am understanding there is a form to fill out and submit to PSA to then be able to obtain a copy of her birth certificate. Anyone know about this? Maybe her Sister and Niece in the Philippines can submit affidavit's to knowing Janet. Other than her birth certificate, we have everything else to file for her AOS. 

[top_secret 2,458]

On 8/30/2023 at 8:37 PM, JANETandLYLE said:

I meant to say PSA, sorry. What I am seeing on their website is for them to issue my Wife a copy of her birth certificate, they want her to show or produce a valid ID. She doesn't have one to show. What she does have at this point is am expired PH Passport with pic, and a marriage license from the USA. My understanding now is if you can not produce either, they are open to accepting two affidavit's from two people who actually know her. I am understanding there is a form to fill out and submit to PSA to then be able to obtain a copy of her birth certificate. Anyone know about this? Maybe her Sister and Niece in the Philippines can submit affidavit's to knowing Janet. Other than her birth certificate, we have everything else to file for her AOS. 

 

 

I think you are making it way more complicated than it actually is.  As Adventine already mentioned up thread, you can just order it online with a credit card at https://www.psaserbilis.com.ph and have it mailed directly to the US.  At most she would need to satisfy a clerk at the post office or DHL delivery guy that she is the intended recipient.  I'm prettey sure even an expired passport would work there.  Alternatly you could order one online and have it sent to her sisters address in the Philippines and just email her a scan of a letter authorizing release to her sister and her expired passport.  All the sister has to do is convince a courior to release it.  It costs $6 online to try that and high chance of sucess.  Or, her mother is able to directly claim her own daughter's birth certificate from PSA if that is an option.  Compared to having lawyers doing FOA requests, multiple affidavits, SPA's etc the "just order one online" option seems pretty simple.