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Question about number of children . . .
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Jackolantern
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My grandmother gave birth to a baby in Jamaica. The baby died shortly after birth (in a matter of hours). The child was never registered with the Jamaican government and a birth certificate was never issued.
But a death certificate was issued and/or they had a funeral and/or there are hospital or church records. So there is a record of the baby's existence.
Yes.I feel stupid asking this but I don't want there to be any hindrances to their applications, so I want to make sure. Do they need to include this baby that died in the total number of children?
The green card expired, but the A-number remains for life. Since they don't know the A-number, they'll just have to write "unknown" in the A-number column. And write "deceased as of xx/xx/xxxx" for the dead baby in the "current address" column.Now I have a second question. My grandparents have a child that lives with them. The child came to the US legally with a green card back in the late 70's. That child has been in trouble with the law on 2 occasions and lost all their documentation, such as green card, passport and all that. Since losing all those things they never bothered to reapply for them either.
So on the form where it asks for the A number we have no number because we don't know it and it would have been expired by now.
They don't investigate family members of N-400 applicants for deportability. If they hold him/her for deportation, it's not because of your grandparents' applications.How likely is it that there will be repercussions for this child because of my grandparents applying for their citizenship? Do they investigate family members, and if family members are found not to be of proper status does that affect my grandparents application? Is it possible that this child could be deported?
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Jackolantern
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I think I am going to call the customer service line and let her hear it for herself. Because God forbid she listen to anything I say.
Don't bother with that. Their customer service on the phone is notorious for doling out misinformation.
It's their application, not yours. You can't force them what to write on it. If you don't feel comfortable omitting the deceased child, remove yourself from their citizenship application and leave the N-400 form with them to write whatever they want to write or not write, and it won't be your problem.
Don't bother with that. Their customer service on the phone is notorious for doling out misinformation.
It's their application, not yours. You can't force them what to write on it. If you don't feel comfortable omitting the deceased child, remove yourself from their citizenship application and leave the N-400 form with them to write whatever they want to write or not write, and it won't be your problem.
Are they really?? Well, that's disappointing. And yea, in an ideal world I would just let them handle it themselves. But then it would never get done.
We'll figure it out. Thank you.