HELP! No ID, lost Alien Card n Need to file I-90 and N-400

This is not just an immigration problem. Even a natural born citizen can
suddenly lose all his papers and documents in a fire etc. Since those
civic question suggest two ways to pratice democracy, we can also
write to lawmakers to pass a law to assist people in such situations.

If FP, DNA and often runique biometric features are stored in government agencies, they can easily identify person.

By the way, if you lose all papers and can not start nowhere, what
if you sit on street calling for emergency? What else can you do?
 
Huracan said:
Hi Baikal,

I tend to disagree with your assessment ;) I would think that it would be much easier to get proof of citizenship from your own country of birth than from the US government. I don't think it would be right for USCIS to make exceptions on this area. For me it seems that the first step to rebuild his identity is to start with a visit to the consulate of his country of birth. Probably with the help of his parents and all he will be able to secure a passport. I don't think USCIS is going to have any pity. If you think about it, he should have gone for a GC replacement after turning 14, and USCIS would have his fingerprints, in that case I could see that USCIS could issue a new GC upon verification of fingerprints. However, it seems that from a very early age nobody cared to follow immigration procedures and that's why he has ended in this pickle.
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Well, I don't know. This really is an impossible situation.
The country of my original citizenship is Russia and I know that Russia requires fairly substantial amount of documentation in order to renew a passport. In particular, they require a proof of legal status in the U.S., a proof of Russian citizenship and a valid ID, such as a driver's license. I would imagine that most countries have similar requirements. (By the way, in the case of Russia the rules are much more complicated if the applicant does not have a currently valid Russian passport).

The only things that the OP's brother has are a copy (not even an original) of his old passport when he was one year old and his birth cirtificate. I just can't imagine that any country would issue a passport based on such documents. Of course, the situation is so bad that he might as well try and see what happens.

In the case of USCIS I agree that their standard rules do not allow for issuance of a replacement green card with the documents that the OP's brother currently has. But, bureaucrats though they are, the USCIS officers do have a certain amount of discretion in handling exceptional cases. They will have access to the OP's brother's and father's A-files and should be able to verify some of the basic facts there (when and how the OP's father and siblings got green cards etc, copies of those green cards, old addresses, etc). If the OP's brother provides enough info, such as affidavits from all the other family members, plus whatever meager documentations he does have, they might just make an exception in his case.

By contrast, his country's embassy would have much less info in their records than the OP's brother's and father's A-files have and it will be more difficult for the embassy to verify his story.
 
My apologies for not reading all the posts. I just read the first page and what I don't understand is why can he not get a replacement driver's license. The reason I can not understand is:
1) I lost my DL in 1998 in Louisiana. I went to DMV to get a replacement one and the agent (who was really nice), pulled up my file on the computer based on my SSN. This file had my picture on record. She said that this picture is me, and so she can issue me a replacement DL. I was not asked of any other identification (I had my passport and college ID with me anyways). She asked me to pay replacement card fee and if I would like a new picture taken or if the same picture should be used on my replacement DL.
2) When I went to renew my drivers license last year in Chicago, I was asked the same question of would I like a new picture taken or should they use the one already present in the system.
3) I mostly certainly believe that whenever one is pulled over by a cop, they have our DMV photo come up on their screen when they check for any pending arrest warrants.
So if they have one's photo in the system, they can identify a person without reasonable doubt and issue them a new ID or DL.
I am not sure what the state of HI does, but I would find it difficult to believe that they do not have a picture of OP's brother from when he last applied for a DL. DMV can very well identify OP's brother from the picture on record and issue a new DL (which was done for me in Louisiana). Once he gets his DL, all sorts of avenues will open up to get the remaining identification. Anyways, all states have different processes, and even in the same state the DMV clerks implement the rules differently (just like IOs).
 
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guju said:
My apologies for not reading all the posts. I just read the first page and what I don't understand is why can he not get a replacement driver's license. The reason I can not understand is:
1) I lost my DL in 1998 in Louisiana. I went to DMV to get a replacement one and the agent (who was really nice), pulled up my file on the computer based on my SSN. This file had my picture on record. She said that this picture is me, and so she can issue me a replacement DL. I was not asked of any other identification (I had my passport and college ID with me anyways). She asked me to pay replacement card fee and if I would like a new picture taken or if the same picture should be used on my replacement DL.
2) When I went to renew my drivers license last year in Chicago, I was asked the same question of would I like a new picture taken or should they use the one already present in the system.
3) I mostly certainly believe that whenever one is pulled over by a cop, they have our DMV photo come up on their screen when they check for any pending arrest warrants.
So if they have one's photo in the system, they can identify a person without reasonable doubt and issue them a new ID or DL.
I am not sure what the state of HI does, but I would find it difficult to believe that they do not have a picture of OP's brother from when he last applied for a DL. DMV can very well identify OP's brother from the picture on record and issue a new DL (which was done for me in Louisiana). Once he gets his DL, all sorts of avenues will open up to get the remaining identification. Anyways, all states have different processes, and even in the same state the DMV clerks implement the rules differently (just like IOs).
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In 1998 the rules regarding driver's licenses were much more relaxed, but things certainly changed after 9/11. These days most states require a valid form of ID, a proof of legal status in the U.S. and a proof of social security number when issuing driver's licenses. For renewals some states only require a previously issued but still valid driver's license from that state (that seems to be the case in Illinois), although many states require more. In the case of the OP's brother, his previous driver's license has already expired and has been lost and he does not even have a copy of it. As far as I know, renewing a lapsed license is usually treated as an application for a new license (which would probably mean having to provide a proof of legal status and of s.s.n), and even if not, surely at a mimimum they are still going to want to see a valid form of ID (which he does not have).

P.S. According to the OP's Aug 9 post, when the OP's brother went to the DMV, he was told that he needs "birth certificate, social security card and passport". He currently only has the birth certificate as his social security card was also lost and he does not even have a copy of it. Similarly, he does not have any of his old passport, nor a currently valid passport, and only has a copy of the passport he had when he was 1 year old.
 
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UPDATE:

My brother went to Maui Immigration office and asked for help there, there is a very nice Lady who started helping him with his case and she promise to continue helping him till everything is done and FREE!

My brother filed for his I-90 online at the immigration and the lady is representing him. She also file for application at the philippines consulate for a temporary passport for now for temporary ID. My brother had to take 2 different types of Passport photos as the philippines passport photo requirement is different from the photo needed for his I-90. Both application
was mailed Oct.7th. USCIS sent a letter to my brother stating they have receive his application and how they will process his case. Now he is only waiting for another letter for his finger printing which until now he has not receive it yet, tho the lady at the immigration fax over to USCIS about where his current status is and confirming they have not recieve any letter after 30days from submitting I90.

At the same time, there is someone from philippines consulate travels inter island to the us immigration to meet up with others who can't fly out to OAHU island, which he/she will be there Nov. 14th., hopefully my brother can get his temporary passport for now sooner than 6-8 weeks, because he needs it to fly to OAHU where he has to go for his i90 interview/finger printing.

The lady at the immigration says, that if the letter from USCIS comes in and set a schedule for his interview/fingerprinting before he receives his temporary passport, she will just have to file to reschedule it.

This lady is soooo nice to do this with my brother, she calls my brother to update him and tell him everything he needs to know or what he has to do next, she even put everything in an envelope for my brothers everything he needs to send and label it and put stamps on it.

My brother is lucky he has someone like her.

I will update this again soon.......someone else might need this info someday.
 
By the way, the lady from immigration told my brother, that as soon as he receive his letter from USCIS, he can bring that to the Social Security place to get his social security replacement card, then with that he can go get his state ID, we'll see.
 
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