You're welcome.wentrealfast said:Thanks for posting your experience Anahit. Out of curiousity, have you and your daughter travelled outside the US since this event and if so, was she asked the same question?
No, we haven't traveled after that.
You're welcome.wentrealfast said:Thanks for posting your experience Anahit. Out of curiousity, have you and your daughter travelled outside the US since this event and if so, was she asked the same question?
bobbyz said:I will have some update on wednesday as I fly back to US with my new US passport for the very first time.
wentrealfast said:I just spoke with Border/Customs. Basically the guy I spoke with said the situation is common and that they've received many complaints and are working to address the problem. It all boils down to a poorly designed and maintained system that takes a while to update information once a person is naturalized.
Ill be travelling again next month overseas and if it happens again, he said that I could make a formal request to correct the information in writing.
Bottom line - they are aware of the problem and I was not the first to contact them.
JoeF said:Make a copy of the naturalization certificate, and take that with you...
wentrealfast said:I just spoke with Border/Customs. Basically the guy I spoke with said the situation is common and that they've received many complaints and are working to address the problem. It all boils down to a poorly designed and maintained system that takes a while to update information once a person is naturalized.
Ill be travelling again next month overseas and if it happens again, he said that I could make a formal request to correct the information in writing.
Bottom line - they are aware of the problem and I was not the first to contact them.
Punjabi_Munda said:I think the million dollars question here is, what if you travel outside the USA first time after getting your passport. Say you lose your passport in that country. You go to the nearest U.S. Consulate and they start asking you that where is you G.C? We don't show you as US citizen in our system, which I'm sure will be updated after all the computers at the POE.
Are you S**t out of luck or what?
zeeman said:What I do also is to keep a protected PDF copy of the Passport and the Naturalization certificate in a web storage service (there are some free ones) as well as in my website. You can't forget your encryption key although....
PDF is quite secure and use a non suspicious name like family pictures or something like that so that a hacker won't be attracted to it just by the name.
PDF readers are available everywhere and in case you need you cand download and print from the web.
or you can copy all these files on a flash drive and carry it around your neck. luizpaulo, what is a good way to encrypt this data? anyone else?