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barr1025

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I will be applying shortly for naturalisation. Recently I received a new passport as my previous one had expired. Thing is - I can't find the old one. I do have a record of all my travel dates from this old passport - I just don't have the passport. Will this be a problem at interview?

THank you.
 
McTavish said:
What if the IO wants to verify travel against passport stamps?
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Then the OP will have to tell IO that the passport is not available. USCIS has this information on file anyways, so it's not a requirement to have every passport you ever used during the statutory period.
 
McTavish,

check your passport, I am sure you find that it is the property of your respective country. If there is no current visa or anything that's still valid in your passport, your home country can (and often will) keep it. If you check the US passport, it has the same provision. So, just explain to the IO that upon renewal it was kept.
 
Bobsmyth said:
Then the OP will have to tell IO that the passport is not available. USCIS has this information on file anyways, so it's not a requirement to have every passport you ever used during the statutory period.
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OK so to change my query, suppose the IO wants to verify travel, and the intrviewee says that they just got a new passport can't find the old one so cannot verify.
Wouldn't the IO be just a little suspicous?
 
MartinAub said:
McTavish,

check your passport, I am sure you find that it is the property of your respective country. If there is no current visa or anything that's still valid in your passport, your home country can (and often will) keep it. If you check the US passport, it has the same provision. So, just explain to the IO that upon renewal it was kept.
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I still have every passport ever issued to me, including a temporary 1 year one I got when the real one was off getting a visa.
 
Bobsmyth said:
USCIS has this information on file anyways,.
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It seems green card is only swiped at entry but not at departure. How can
USCIS get complete information of each PR's trip outside USA? and I doubt
airline keep very exact info because one does not rpovide any more information rather than name when booking a ticket and when checking in and boarding at airport, arline only take a look at yoru passport but never write anytghing down
 
WBH said:
It seems green card is only swiped at entry but not at departure. How can
USCIS get complete information of each PR's trip outside USA? and I doubt
airline keep very exact info because one does not rpovide any more information rather than name when booking a ticket and when checking in and boarding at airport, arline only take a look at yoru passport but never write anytghing down
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My thoughts exactly.
 
Well Mc,

not everyone has and thus it is perfectly ok not to have it and it is perfectly ok to have a valid passport and no old one.

Why keep an old one? Worth nothing. Most of the time stamps are unreadable or missing etc.

You make a very mute point here.

It's like why keep expired driver's license, just because you "might" need to proove something that someone makes up any numbers of years from now?

What kind of assumption is that?

It's a non issue.
 
WBH said:
It seems green card is only swiped at entry but not at departure. How can
USCIS get complete information of each PR's trip outside USA? and I doubt
airline keep very exact info because one does not rpovide any more information rather than name when booking a ticket and when checking in and boarding at airport, arline only take a look at yoru passport but never write anytghing down
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Are you seriously suggesting that DHS, of which USCIS is a part of, has no idea when people come and go?
 
USCIS knows where people are.

The airlines need to submit the info, at land borders the info is taken (recently) and same at sea ports.

Just in the past they haven't paid close attention.
 
Mr Vertigo said:
Are you seriously suggesting that DHS, of which USCIS is a part of, has no idea when people come and go?
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It is hard to imagine the data collected by airline can be easily entered into USCIS system so that the IO can easily pull it out by typing in some key information into a computer. If airline never ask for A# and I don't remmeber they ask for it. In fact, if you make a trip to a country, airline oinly check your passport
either passport has to be issued by that country or bear a visa issued by that country.

Yes. If they do need trip info about a particular person I believe they can obtain it. But that may requires some efforts on part of themselves. I doubt
they do that foir every applicants.
 
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WBH said:
It is hard to imagine the data collected by airline can be easily entered into USCIS system so that the IO can easily pull it out by typing in some key information into a computer. If airline never ask for A# and I don't remmeber they ask for it. In fact, if you make a trip to a country, airline oinly check your passport
either passport has to be issued by that country or bear a visa issued by that country.
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You know what, I've no intention of offending you, but I noticed that you write a lot of unsubstantiated stuff from time to time. Where did you travel to that no one entered your passport information on their system? They always scan my passport and enter additional information in O'Hare, Chicago. It seems as if you just like to pull information out of nowhere.
 
WBH,

please.....

All airlines are required to collect data for every passanger to transfer ahead of departure to DHS (USCIS), so they are perfectly capable of doing that.

Further, whenever you travel to the US you go through a second screeing.
 
Mr Vertigo said:
You know what, I've no intention of offending you, but I noticed that you write a lot of unsubstantiated stuff from time to time.
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As many people said, no one can make another lose money or anything
real thru discussion. So no offense taken. and I am here because I am ignorant
and want to share experience and thoughts with others.

Mr Vertigo said:
Where did you travel to that no one entered your passport information on their system? They always scan my passport and enter additional information in O'Hare, Chicago. It seems as if you just like to pull information out of nowhere.
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Foreign passports are not issued by the US and an alien can renew their passport periodically. If it is scanned, infor entered may not be easily linked
with alien A#. There are too many people with same name, same birth date etc. It can be sorted out but may need some manual work.
 
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MartinAub said:
All airlines are required to collect data for every passanger to transfer ahead of departure to DHS (USCIS), so they are perfectly capable of doing that.
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That does not mean each departures of each alien's is nicely collected
into that person's file.
 
It does, since your GC is recorded at port of entry and if it doesn't match the passanger manifest you can spend a while in the special processing room.

If you fail to present your GC, you need I94, I94W or a valid visa in which case you would violate the law and commit immigration fraud.

Can you please drop it, if you don't think it through first?
 
MartinAub said:
It does, since your GC is recorded at port of entry and if it doesn't match the passanger manifest you can spend a while in the special processing room.

If you fail to present your GC, you need I94, I94W or a valid visa in which case you would violate the law and commit immigration fraud.

Can you please drop it, if you don't think it through first?
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I already mentioned that I don't see any problem with USCIS keeping track of entry. What I am not convinced is how accurate they can keep track of
depature. There is no scanniing of GC. Airline may not look at it. Nonimmigrants need to return I-94 which PR do not have any more. Only thing than ticket PR
need to present is their passport.
 
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