Bellagio777
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Hi All,
I never registered for Selective Services http://www.sss.gov/Default.htm. I came to the US at age 17 on an F-1. Later I received an H-1 and subsequently a Green Card at the age of 25. So technically I was supposed to register with SSS before turning 26. Now I am 29 and have a naturalization interview coming up in 3 weeks and I received a notice ( I-797C) listing items I need to bring to the interview and amongst them is Any Evidence of Selective Services Registration. I do not have any evidence. I contacted SSS and they do not have any record of me. They are sending me a form showing I was not registered. I have requested them to send me proof of when they mailed out letters asking me to register and what address(es) these letters were mailed out to.
So now that I have detailed the situtation I have a few observations. Doing a little investigation I discovered that on I-485 - the permanent resident application http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-485.pdf page 4 it states something to the efect that once you are approved for permanent resident status, USCIS will send my information to Selective Services which will then register me.
I also looked up instructions for filing out the 1-485 http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-485instr.pdf and on page 8 it talks about Selective Services and how USCIS will register you for it.
When I spoke to an employee of Selective Services over the phone she said something to the extent that USCIS was supposed to automatially register me when they approved my Green Card.
The question is what should I do now ? I have my interview in 3 weeks. I will be receiving a letter from SSS showing I was not registered. Is my application for Naturalization going to be denied even though the above evidence suggests that USCIS should have registered me in SSS ?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks you
I never registered for Selective Services http://www.sss.gov/Default.htm. I came to the US at age 17 on an F-1. Later I received an H-1 and subsequently a Green Card at the age of 25. So technically I was supposed to register with SSS before turning 26. Now I am 29 and have a naturalization interview coming up in 3 weeks and I received a notice ( I-797C) listing items I need to bring to the interview and amongst them is Any Evidence of Selective Services Registration. I do not have any evidence. I contacted SSS and they do not have any record of me. They are sending me a form showing I was not registered. I have requested them to send me proof of when they mailed out letters asking me to register and what address(es) these letters were mailed out to.
So now that I have detailed the situtation I have a few observations. Doing a little investigation I discovered that on I-485 - the permanent resident application http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-485.pdf page 4 it states something to the efect that once you are approved for permanent resident status, USCIS will send my information to Selective Services which will then register me.
I also looked up instructions for filing out the 1-485 http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-485instr.pdf and on page 8 it talks about Selective Services and how USCIS will register you for it.
When I spoke to an employee of Selective Services over the phone she said something to the extent that USCIS was supposed to automatially register me when they approved my Green Card.
The question is what should I do now ? I have my interview in 3 weeks. I will be receiving a letter from SSS showing I was not registered. Is my application for Naturalization going to be denied even though the above evidence suggests that USCIS should have registered me in SSS ?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks you