Interview done but IO request more documentation

You still have not answered the question posed to you, twice!!! How did the officer see the actual tax returns? Did he ask for them specifically or they were part of the documents submitted with your N-400?

yahayajp said:
Do you guys think i should contact a lawyer?since there's now way on any planet that i can get the BC.or should go back to the DO and tell the IO that i can't get the BC and see what my options will be.???? GURU'S CHIP IN
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Hi cjack.this is my experience last thursday.i got there on time and i was called in.made me swear and started asking questions like i'm i married now.then comes the 6 standard question.and went thru my applications and made me print my name on it and also made me sign on my pictures.then he gave me a letter asking for additional documentations.which in it self was my fault because i included a copy of my tax returns when i was sending the n400.so he saw that i claimed a child on it and he ask who that child was and i told him is my EX'S and the IO says ok bring me his birth certificate .IO also ask me to submit a court document from home country that i've been supporting my own child for the past 5 yrs.now there's no way i can get that birth certificate.i'm actually considering to go back and tell the IO that i can't get the BC and see what my options will be or just let a lawyer handling this.

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http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?290371-Hartford-CT-N-400-Timeline/page5
 
yes they were part of the documents sent along with the n400


Triple Citizen said:
You still have not answered the question posed to you, twice!!! How did the officer see the actual tax returns? Did he ask for them specifically or they were part of the documents submitted with your N-400?
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Were you married to that child's other parent when you claimed the child on your tax return? The marriage would make you the stepparent, which may give you the legal right to obtain the birth certificate directly from the issuing authorities (of course, this depends on the laws of the country where the child was born).
 
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Looks like you need a consultation with 2 professionals: a tax accountant, and an immigration lawyer.

It may have been wrong to claim your ex's child as a dependent on your tax return, given the child wasn't yours and you weren't married to the child's parent. Ask the tax accountant about this, and file an amended return if it was wrong to claim that child. Then submit a copy of the amended return to USCIS with a letter stating that the child isn't yours and has been removed from your tax returns and that you are unable to obtain the birth certificate.

Then get a letter from the immigration lawyer to state that the child isn't legally or biologically yours, you were not the legal stepparent because you didn't marry, and because you have no legal relationship to the child you are unable to obtain the birth certificate, and the birth certificate of a child that you don't have a legal or biological relationship with isn't relevant to your naturalization so you are asking USCIS to decide your case without that birth certificate. You could write the letter yourself, but if it comes from a lawyer they will respect it more -- once they know you're consulting a lawyer they'll be more careful about denying your case for a weak reason (and denying it because of lacking a birth certificate of a child that isn't your child or stepchild would be a weak and bogus reason).
 
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