Hello everybody. I just have a quick question. I received a letter for citizenship interview next month August but I lost my passport. I've been living in the U.S since 1992 and and got my green card in 2000. I don't have the old passport but I do have copies of them. Is it gonna be a problem at the interview? I also went to college for two years but dropped out and have been working since 2000 do you think I should I get a letter from my employer stating that I've been working there the last 6 years and that maybe school records. What other paper work would I need to get to show contious residence? I have never left the country since I got here 16 years ago. Any help and suggestion is greatly appreciated.

thanks in advance,
kaitlyn

Hey, we're talking Immigration here; no logic allowed.

Is a reply I received from another post, LOL, have to agree with that with the USCIS. But I will try some anyway, you were here since 1992 as a permanent resident, that means you could never apply for a US Passport and if your home country is like my wife's home country, why would they issue you a passport if you haven't lived in your home country for that long length of time?

I assume your address and employment history shows residency here in the USA for the past 16 years, and your trips outside of the USA shows zero, especially for the last five years. If you even married a US citizen, who cares, you been here 16 years, which is 13 more years than 3 years, so shouldn't have to even show proof of marriage.

I know of no law that requires you to maintain a foreign passport while you are here as a permanent resident, and yours is not only lost, but has to be way expired at this time.

The purpose of the passport is to verify the trips you listed on the N-400 is correct, and if you didn't take any trips, and how could you, if you don't even have a passport? And you should have tax returns for the last 8 years to verify you are working and paying taxes here, that is what they really care about.

I do not feel you should have a problem, but again, dealing with the USCIS. Says to bring in all of your original documents, interviewer said she doesn't have time to look at them, is the spouse necessary, can't go in, but one person said her spouse was in a parking lot a couple of blocks away and the interviewer want to see him to make sure he was a US citizen. If she got her conditional green card with marriage, how did she get that if her spouse wasn't a US citizen, and it goes on and on. Never know what to expect.

Can anyone here show a law that requires a PR to have a current valid foreign passport?

I thought that was the only way to get an I-551 stamp with an expired green card, but found that wasn't true.

At my interview the Officer only looked at the first page of the passport (where my Pic and info was located). She didn't look through the book and gave it back to me. She then proceeded to ask if I traveled between the application and the interview. I agree with you Nick that by logic, it would not be possible to go abroad. Well he could go to Canada as you only needed a Driver's License until recently to cross the border. I don't think it will be an issue.