Long Birth certificate for USC

[Officer's Fiance 0]

I posted this question in another thread and I think it got lost.....

As the foreign fiance, I have the long version, but does the USC have to send in the long version as well? I couldn't find anything in the guides that make reference to the long BC for the UCS... Did anyone send in the short version and be ok?

Thanks

[zyggy 9]

I posted this question in another thread and I think it got lost.....

As the foreign fiance, I have the long version, but does the USC have to send in the long version as well? I couldn't find anything in the guides that make reference to the long BC for the UCS... Did anyone send in the short version and be ok?

Thanks

I don't believe the US has an option between long form and short form.. they are all long form...if it's a card, then it's probably not the official BC that one would get from their country clerk's office.

Edited June 22, 2006 by zyggy

[PlatyPius 5]

I posted this question in another thread and I think it got lost.....

As the foreign fiance, I have the long version, but does the USC have to send in the long version as well? I couldn't find anything in the guides that make reference to the long BC for the UCS... Did anyone send in the short version and be ok?

Thanks

The US doesn't have a long and short form Birth Certificate. There's just a birth certificate. True, you can get a wallet-sized legal BC, but it's still the normal one, just smaller (reduced).

[elizaxyz 0]

I posted this question in another thread and I think it got lost.....

As the foreign fiance, I have the long version, but does the USC have to send in the long version as well? I couldn't find anything in the guides that make reference to the long BC for the UCS... Did anyone send in the short version and be ok?

Thanks

The US doesn't have a long and short form Birth Certificate. There's just a birth certificate. True, you can get a wallet-sized legal BC, but it's still the normal one, just smaller (reduced).

It depends on the state that issued the BC. I have both a short and a long form from South Carolina. I couldn't find the long form when I sent in my application, but it states in the instructions for the I-129f that if you lack a birth certificate, you can send in a complete copy of your passport (all pages, including the blank ones.) So I sent that with the short form to be on the safe side and had no problems getting approved through Vermont. (Until IMBRA screwed it all up, of course.)

[PlatyPius 5]

I posted this question in another thread and I think it got lost.....

As the foreign fiance, I have the long version, but does the USC have to send in the long version as well? I couldn't find anything in the guides that make reference to the long BC for the UCS... Did anyone send in the short version and be ok?

Thanks

The US doesn't have a long and short form Birth Certificate. There's just a birth certificate. True, you can get a wallet-sized legal BC, but it's still the normal one, just smaller (reduced).

It depends on the state that issued the BC. I have both a short and a long form from South Carolina. I couldn't find the long form when I sent in my application, but it states in the instructions for the I-129f that if you lack a birth certificate, you can send in a complete copy of your passport (all pages, including the blank ones.) So I sent that with the short form to be on the safe side and had no problems getting approved through Vermont. (Until IMBRA screwed it all up, of course.)

Hmmm.... interesting. Now I'm curious to hear from other members from other states. Indiana just has the one birth certificate. I honestly can't understand the purpose of having a long one and a short one.

[ucla_cutie26 0]

Hmmm.... interesting. Now I'm curious to hear from other members from other states. Indiana just has the one birth certificate. I honestly can't understand the purpose of having a long one and a short one.

I agree with you, what's the point in having a long birth certificate and a short one. Here in California, I believe there is also just one kind of birth certificate.

[Officer's Fiance 0]

Does anyone know about what kind of BC Texas issues???? Long and short or just one? Unfortunately my fiance (who is the USC) only has an expired passport and hasn't gotten around to renewing yet... ah, procrastination drives me crazy!

[bebop + rocksteady 0]

Hmmm.... interesting. Now I'm curious to hear from other members from other states. Indiana just has the one birth certificate. I honestly can't understand the purpose of having a long one and a short one.

First of all, yay Indiana! I grew up about 45 minutes north of Louisville and went to school in Bloomington.

Secondly, I was born in Kentucky, I've only ever seen one version of the BC from here.

[elizaxyz 0]

I've never seen the point of having a wallet sized birth certificate myself. I lost the long one and had to have it replaced, because every time I've tried to use the short form as ID, people have thought it was a really bad fake. Hence I sent in a copy of my passport with our application!

[zyggy 9]

I posted this question in another thread and I think it got lost.....

As the foreign fiance, I have the long version, but does the USC have to send in the long version as well? I couldn't find anything in the guides that make reference to the long BC for the UCS... Did anyone send in the short version and be ok?

Thanks

The US doesn't have a long and short form Birth Certificate. There's just a birth certificate. True, you can get a wallet-sized legal BC, but it's still the normal one, just smaller (reduced).

It depends on the state that issued the BC. I have both a short and a long form from South Carolina. I couldn't find the long form when I sent in my application, but it states in the instructions for the I-129f that if you lack a birth certificate, you can send in a complete copy of your passport (all pages, including the blank ones.) So I sent that with the short form to be on the safe side and had no problems getting approved through Vermont. (Until IMBRA screwed it all up, of course.)

It is true that some states issue a wallet sized card, but it usually isn't called a Birth Certificate. It's usually called a Registration of Birth Card or something to that extent. The only document that is an actual Birth Certificate in the US is the 81/2 X 11 one with all of the birth information...

[together2love 0]

I think some of the states (if not all) issue a short version of the birth certificate. However, some of them may not have your parents name listed on them. I know that my USC fiance from OR has a "short form" BC but we realized that after we had already sent our petition in that he would need the longer form like Zyggy is saying. Check out the pinned RFE thread - it may be necessary to get the BC with your parents name on it to include in the I-129F package because many have gotten RFE's for not doing so). Here is the link: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4725

So just read through some of it - i think it is on the 2nd page or something. THis is why we are going to try and send a copy of the 81/2x11 BC that we ordered from vitalcheck with the 1st IMBRA RFE we get so that we can hopefully surpass getting ANOTHER RFE later on. (google for vitalcheck and see if you can order what you need). It took a couple weeks to get it.

Has anyone sent in their application where they didn't have their "long form" BC or pages of passport submitted but still got approved? I would be interested to see if it is possible. Or are there others that had an RFE from not having a LF BC submitted and only the card-type one?

[Yodrak 7]

zyggy,

My birth certificate, issued by the county registrar's office many many years ago, is not 8-1/2x11. It's still as valid today as it was the day it was issued.

Yodrak

.... The only document that is an actual Birth Certificate in the US is the 81/2 X 11 one with all of the birth information...

[PlatyPius 5]

I posted this question in another thread and I think it got lost.....

As the foreign fiance, I have the long version, but does the USC have to send in the long version as well? I couldn't find anything in the guides that make reference to the long BC for the UCS... Did anyone send in the short version and be ok?

Thanks

The US doesn't have a long and short form Birth Certificate. There's just a birth certificate. True, you can get a wallet-sized legal BC, but it's still the normal one, just smaller (reduced).

It depends on the state that issued the BC. I have both a short and a long form from South Carolina. I couldn't find the long form when I sent in my application, but it states in the instructions for the I-129f that if you lack a birth certificate, you can send in a complete copy of your passport (all pages, including the blank ones.) So I sent that with the short form to be on the safe side and had no problems getting approved through Vermont. (Until IMBRA screwed it all up, of course.)

It is true that some states issue a wallet sized card, but it usually isn't called a Birth Certificate. It's usually called a Registration of Birth Card or something to that extent. The only document that is an actual Birth Certificate in the US is the 81/2 X 11 one with all of the birth information...

The Indiana birth certificate is only half that size (8x5, I think), and all of them (in IN) list mother and father.

[Steph1010 1]

I used my short form and so did my cosponsor. Everything was fine.

[irishgirl73 0]

zyggy,

My birth certificate, issued by the county registrar's office many many years ago, is not 8-1/2x11. It's still as valid today as it was the day it was issued.

Yodrak

.... The only document that is an actual Birth Certificate in the US is the 81/2 X 11 one with all of the birth information...

Same as Pennsylvania-I just ordered a "long-form" which just has my parents information on it(I thought it would look different but doesn't). They are all the same size here