Original birth certificate?

[DeathNova 0]

Has anyone ever been asked for the beneficiaries original birth certificate at AOS? All we have are copies since the embassy took her original at the K-1 interview. She's already in country so it's a bit late to go hunting down another original.

Any ideas or feedback?

[FRJ 0]

Has anyone ever been asked for the beneficiaries original birth certificate at AOS? All we have are copies since the embassy took her original at the K-1 interview. She's already in country so it's a bit late to go hunting down another original.

Any ideas or feedback?

yeah they asked for mine. guess it depends on the IO

[pacificleye 4]

Has anyone ever been asked for the beneficiaries original birth certificate at AOS? All we have are copies since the embassy took her original at the K-1 interview. She's already in country so it's a bit late to go hunting down another original.

Any ideas or feedback?

In my case all I had was a copy of my BC, the one I sent with the AOS packet along with the traduction in english from french. Now at the interview I was not ask any of it. Usually it is the USC petitioner that is required the original. If you can get the original for the beneficiary it won't hurt to get it. But most likely they might not ask for it. I guess it depend on the IO.

In my case I decided not to try and get an original of my BC, and in case I was asked for it I would explain that where I'm from we don't have a BC per se, but rather an extract of the registred BC, which is just a copy of the original, so if they really wanted it I was going to get it then ( even if it meant being tagged with a RFE )since it is a hasle to get one while over sea!

Edited March 23, 2009 by pacificleye

[mimimimimi 0]

I have. They looked VERY closely at it. It seems there is a high rate of fake documents, so they want to make sure you are bringing a real one. If I were you, I would get a new one from the local government. And do a certified translation. I had the wrong translation with me on the interview and they gave me a RFE.