Do we need to register with - Selective Service system

dhirendra_sh said:
Hi,

After becoming Permanent Resident, do we need to register with - Selective Service system ?

Refer to the chart below

http://www.sss.gov/PDFs/Who Must Register Chart Fit page10_07.pdf
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NO if you are over 25 when you became PR. YES if you are under 25 when you became PR

Per your link page 2

NOTE: Immigrants who did not enter the United States or maintained their lawful non-immigrant status by continually remaining on a valid visa until after they were 26 years old were never required to register. Also, immigrants born before 1960 who did not enter the United States or maintained their lawful non-immigrant status by continually remaining on a valid visa until after March 29, 1975, were never required to register.
 
Citizens and permanent residents have the same SSS obligations. So if you are a guy within the age range required for registration then you must register.
 
What abput our kids- Do they need to register

Hi

what is the situation in case of kids who just got their PR but not Citizen?

Giving a hypothatical senario, if my son is over 15 who just got Green Card last year need to register for selective service? If yes what will be the process?

What is the age range in which PR ( or a Citizen as some one said both have equal obligation for Selective services) needs to rgister for the selcetive service.

I know many of us might have grown up kids to whom this is important question and information.

Look forward for your views
 
Sss

Here is something Interesting.

On the I-485 (current version page 4) it says that if USCIS accepts your application, they will automatically register you with SSS.

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-485.pdf

Problem is, I do not know how long this has been in effect or if it recently included in revisions.

SELECTIVE SERVICE REGISTRATION. The following applies to you if you are a male at least 18 years old, but not yet 26 years old, who is required to register with the Selective Service System: "I understand that my filing this adjustment of status application with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services authorizes USCIS to provide certain registration information to the Selective Service System in accordance with the Military Selective Service Act. Upon USCIS acceptance of my application, I authorize USCIS to transmit to the Selective Service System my name, current address, Social Security Number, date of birth and the date I filed the application for the purpose of recording my Selective Service registration as of the filing date. If, however, USCIS does not accept my application, I further understand that, if so required, I am responsible for registering with the Selective Service by other means, provided I have not yet reached age 26."
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So, Who wants to shed some light on this?
 
Ok so my question is, when you are registered do you have to show proof of that? Cuz I have a registration number when I check it online, since 2002 when I got my GC but I don't have a Registration Card. So do they ask for proof ?
 
Automatically registered for Selective Service I-485 and DS-230

I checked and this has been on the I-485 since year 2000 and also there is a similar statement on the DS-230 Part II with OMB Approval Number 1405-0015 (see bottom of page 4) which reads "I understand that completion of this form by persons required by law to register with the Selective Service System (Males eighteen through 25 years of age) constitutes such registration in accordance with the Military Selective Service Act". This is the form used by those who do consular processing. It must be signed in front of the consular officer.

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/81807.pdf[/url] - current form
http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-485.pdf - current form

Both of these forms have been used since 02/07/2000 and it is still on both of the current forms (I-485 and DS-230).
Here are a couple of older forms:

http://www.travel.state.gov/pdf/DS-0230.pdf[/url] dated 05/2001
http://www.musc.edu/internationalsupport/images/i-485.pdf[/url] dated 02/07/2000

Anyone have any further comments on this???
Thanks



oroper said:
Here is something Interesting.

On the I-485 (current version page 4) it says that if USCIS accepts your application, they will automatically register you with SSS.

http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-485.pdf

Problem is, I do not know how long this has been in effect or if it recently included in revisions.



So, Who wants to shed some light on this?
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DS-230 and I-485 automatically register you for Selective Service

Sorry I could not seem to copy and paste the links in my last post.
It appears that the DS -230 has had an automatic registration for Selective Service since 05/2001 and the I-485 has had the clause since 02/07/2000

here are samples of these earlier forms:

http://www.musc.edu/internationalsupport/images/i-485.pdf

http://www.travel.state.gov/pdf/DS-0230.pdf

the current ds-230 is at
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/81807.pdf
 
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I'm 44 and applying for naturalization after 5 years as a PR. It's actually my second green card -- I gave up an earlier one because I was posted for work outside the US for several years.
Now I read on form N-400, for the first time ever, about the need for Selective Service registration. I was 27 years old by the time I got my previous green card, so presumably that's why no one ever told me to register. But I was below 26 while I was applying for adjustment of status. Did I need to register when I first applied for the Green Card?
 
query19 said:
I'm 44 and applying for naturalization after 5 years as a PR. It's actually my second green card -- I gave up an earlier one because I was posted for work outside the US for several years.
Now I read on form N-400, for the first time ever, about the need for Selective Service registration. I was 27 years old by the time I got my previous green card, so presumably that's why no one ever told me to register. But I was below 26 while I was applying for adjustment of status. Did I need to register when I first applied for the Green Card?
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Did your nonimmigrant status expire before or after you turned 26? I think that's the key question as you are not required to register for Selective Service as long as you were on a valid nonimmigrant status, but you were required to register if you were out of status.

Another thing is that the AOS application itself (I-485) contains a statement that you authorize USCIS to register for Selective Service for you, so you may already have been registered. Call SSS and see if you were already registered; sometimes it doesn't show online but you were actually registered.
 
my son was 12 years old last year when we entered with cards, do I have to enrioll him for selective service??? where is that
 
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