Birth Certificate Thai Beneficiary

[Grover123 0]

I will be filing DCF is the next 2 weeks and I see in the Visa Journey timeline process that a birth certificate is no longer required.

Is this accurate?

My wife does not have an original paper Thai birth certificate. She does have a Thai passport with her new married name to me.

I see the Thai passport does not need translation.

Is this accurate?

Thanks for any help

[lesthatsri 9]

Hi

Have you checked this guide?

http://www.visajourney.com/content/dcf

I will strongly advise you that if you are in Thailand your wife gets a copy of her original birth certificate because it is more than certain that she will need it at least at some point.

[Karee 4,189]

I will be filing DCF is the next 2 weeks and I see in the Visa Journey timeline process that a birth certificate is no longer required.

Is this accurate?

My wife does not have an original paper Thai birth certificate. She does have a Thai passport with her new married name to me.

I see the Thai passport does not need translation.

Is this accurate?

Thanks for any help

My wife doesn't have a birth certificate either. She had to go to the local Amphur with her mother to get a letter saying that one does not exist and that she was born here on this date etc. etc. Since you're going DCF, I can't think of a reason you would need one for the immigration process. You wont be filing Adjustment of Status once in the U.S. and that's the only other time they ask for a birth certificate. That said, there may be other non-immigration reasons after arriving in the U.S. where a birth certificate may be required. Again though, my wife has been in the U.S. for 5+ years now and is a U.S. citizen and she's never needed a birth certificate for anything.

ETA: Your terminology in the title of the thread is incorrect. Your wife is actually the Thai beneficiary. You as the US citizen are the petitioner.

Edited July 27, 2014 by Karee

[Lovie Lovie 9]

Birth Certificate might be needed at some certain stage both for the beneficiary and petioner.

Mostly birth certificate could even proof a lots than passport but either is good for this process especially the petioner but they beneficiary must has the two.

[Karee 4,189]

Birth Certificate might be needed at some certain stage both for the beneficiary and petioner.

Mostly birth certificate could even proof a lots than passport but either is good for this process especially the petioner but they beneficiary must has the two.

My wife has never had a birth certificate throughout this process. She still doesn't have one. She got her citizenship 2 years ago.

[Ryan H 3,790]

***Moved from IR-1/CR-1 Process & Procedures to DCF Discussion. Topic title edited ("Petitioner" changed to Beneficiary")***

~~~Hijack post having nothing to do with the OP's case removed.~~~

Edited July 27, 2014 by Ryan H