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section 7 of the adjudicators guide:
(B) Applicant Under Age 26. Male applicants who are younger than 26 at the time of filing for naturalization must provide evidence of having registered prior to the adjudication of the application. If the applicant has not registered you should determine if the applicant knowingly and willfully failed to register. If this is the case, and the applicant refuses to register for the Selective Service, he should be denied for lack of attachment and not being well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States. [See section 316(a)(3) of the Act.] If the applicant has not registered with Selective Service, but this failure to register was not knowing or willful, you should continue the case until the applicant demonstrates that he has registered with Selective Service. [See General Counsel Opinion 98-6 and Chapter 72.4 of this manual.] Advise the applicant to register with the Selective Service and provide USCIS with a copy of the registration letter or status information letter discussed in the memorandum Corrections to a Guide to Naturalization and the Effect of Failure to Register for the Selective Service on Naturalization Eligibility, dated February 16, 1999, located in Appendix 74-7.
(C) Applicant Between the Ages of 26 and 31. In cases where the applicant has filed for naturalization between the ages of 26-31, he no longer has a duty to register with Selective Service [50 USC 453(a)]. However, you can still deny the application if the applicant knowingly and willfully failed to register with Selective Service when he was younger than 26 [50 USC 462(g)]. Note that the burden of proof falls on the applicant to establish that the failure to register was not knowing and willful. See General Counsel Opinion 98-6 and Chapter 72.4 of this manual. The applicant should provide USCIS the status information letter discussed in the memorandum located in Appendix 74-7.
These applicants must establish that they did not knowingly and willfully fail to register, and should be advised to:
• Contact the Selective Srevice and complete the Selective Service's Questionaire Form (Males born after March 29, 1957);
• Receive a 'status information letter' from the Selective Service;
• Send the status information letter to the USCIS as discussed in Appendix 74-7.
(D) Applicant Older than 31. If the applicant files after his 31st birthday, more than five years will have elapsed since his failure to register. Therefore, the failure to register will have occurred outside the period during which the applicant must show that he is of good moral character. This means that even if the applicant willfully and knowingly failed to register with the Selective Service, this fact would not, in and of itself, be a bar to eligibility so long as the applicant has currently satisfied the good moral character requirements of section 316(a)(3) of the Act. However, if the failure to register was willful and knowing, you can consider this fact with other evidence concerning the applicant’s compliance with section 316(a)(3). The applicant should provide the status information letter discussed in the memorandum located in Appendix 74-7.
These applicants must establish that they did not knowingly and willfully fail to register, and should be advised to:
• Call the Selective Service's toll-free number (1-888-688-6888) and complete the Selective Service System's Questionnaire Form (Males born before March 29, 1957 should call 703-605-4047);
• Receive a 'status information letter' from Selective Service;
• Send the status information letter to the USCIS, as discussed in Appendix 74-7.
