RFE for Grandmother- Help needed

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maggyban

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Hi,

My grandmother's daughter (my aunt) is a USC and filed the necessary forms for an AOS for my grandmother. My aunt received her USC status through naturalization...she was born in the caribbean.

The USCIS recently requested that my aunt send a printed copy of her birth certificate, because the one she initially sent was hand written. In addition, my aunt's father's name was not on the birth certificate and the USCIS requested that also. However, she is having a lot of issues getting the birth certificate...especially since she now resides in the US.

Basically, the birth certificate issuing agency in her home country is taking along time to issues the new certificate. The deadline for the receipt of the RFE for the I-130 is coming and we are not sure what to do.

Any suggestions? Can my aunt prove any other way or send any other document to show that my grandmother is really her mother? Can she request extension on the date to return the RFE?

Thanks in advance for your help.
 
Affidavits by people who witnessed your aunt's birth?

I don't know if there's a procedure whereby hand-written birth certificates can be officially transcribed into typed birth certificates. Maybe by a handwriting expert? Is it not clearly legible? I'm not sure but creatively I can imagine using a similar process to certifying a translation. Can she get a new birth certificate issued from the country of birth based on the handwritten one?
 
hmmm, that's strange. Even though my birth certificate is in a form of a booklet with all official seals and signatures, it is nevertheless handwritten. So is my mother's and father's. No problems. Of course, all the parents' names appear where they are supposed to...
 
Guys thanks for the responses. She can and already applied for the computer printed certificate but it's just taking so long and the deadline for the RFE is coming soon.

I guess recently the USCIS has been asking individuals to furnish computer printed versions instead of handwritten.

I will tell her to check with the embassy.
 
My father didn't have birth certificate. So he found the person older than him declared that he knows our family and the truth of date and place of birth of my father. I understand it needs to notorize it. Try to find a lawyer to draft the letter and notorize in there. Submit this one first and try to get the birth certificate a.s.a.p.
 
Thanks for the help.

The older certificates have the necessary areas to fill out such as DOB, place of birth, parent's names etc, but instead of the info being typed it is instead hand written and then notorized. However, for the past couple of years the country changed this and converted all handwritten forms into electronic copies. So not the USCIS is requesting the computerized format. Unfortunately, sometimes this process takes a long time.
 
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PraetorianXI said:
Where in the world are birth certificates hand written?

I will write one for myself... born in the USA, son of Bill Gates... :p
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well, in the former Soviet Union we didn't have computers in 1950, 1948 or 1974 for that matter. All typewriters had to be registered with KGB, and a lot of agencies simply didn't have them. So, all of my family's birth certificates are filled out by hand, whereas the booklet itself has printed words for fields like: "Last name", "Date of Birth", etc.
 
LucyMO said:
well, in the former Soviet Union we didn't have computers in 1950, 1948 or 1974 for that matter. All typewriters had to be registered with KGB, and a lot of agencies simply didn't have them. So, all of my family's birth certificates are filled out by hand, whereas the booklet itself has printed words for fields like: "Last name", "Date of Birth", etc.
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My misunderstanding is to blame.

I know some fields are often "filled by hand" where I thought the OP meant that the entire document was hand written, including the fields.

Even in my country (soon to be a socialist/communist country) in 2004, the fields in my passport were field by hand :[ by a lame hand writting uncapable clerk... with cursive writting :p
 
I know...the post was a bit vague anyway. I do not know why it takes these people so long to issue a darn birth certificate...especially when you paid for the 3-day express service and 2 weeks have already passed.
 
bc question

I enclosed 2 affidavits for my mom's bc from her younger sister and another relative who is also younger to my mom. Did not have the NABC with it.

Now I got a bc from indian embassy (which took almost a month to issue one). If I get an RFE on this, can I use this one...

Thanks,
 
Yes, you can and you should...

In lieu of the BC, you are supposed to submit the affidavits of people OLDER than your relative, not the other way around. :cool:
 
PraetorianXI,

Thank you for the response. Another quick question. Should I send this embassy stated BC now or should I wait till I get the RFE and do it.

thanks
Subra
 
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