Passport required for N-400

[The Earmuffs 0]

I misplaced my passport a couple years ago and havent bothered to get a new one..

I was wondering if its needed at any point in the N-400 process as I will be applying in April.

I still have a photocopy of the main page and my K-1 visa.

thanks.

[YuAndDan 153]

Typically foreign passport is needed to look at to see entry/exit stamps.

One note, some countries require your old passport to invalidate it when you apply for a visitor's visa for US passport.

I know of one person from China who went through hell trying to get a Chinese visa in their American passport, their old Chinese passport was lost.

[The Earmuffs 0]

I left the US once to go to Canada and it was already lost at that point.. this was prior to needing a passport by land.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,235]

If you lost your passport, there is no way to get it back, is there? And if they wanted to look at your old passport in order to check the entry stamps to the US, a new passport wouldn't do, would it.

Damn . . . I forgot your question . . .

[Susan73 5]

JustBob..You crack me up

If you lost your passport, there is no way to get it back, is there? And if they wanted to look at your old passport in order to check the entry stamps to the US, a new passport wouldn't do, would it.

Damn . . . I forgot your question . . .

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Did you file anything anywhere to say that it was lost? With the Consulate or Passport office or the police (if it was stolen?). If yes, you could always bring that evidence with you to back up your statement that you have no passport. The reason they wish to see the passport is to verify your statements about time spent out of the US as most places do stamp passports. Canadians are in an interesting situation as until recently passports weren't required for cross border travelling between US and Canada and even when they are they are almost never stamped so there is no evidence contained in the passport of such travel. If you don't have it, you don't have it but if you have anything that documents its loss, bring that - just in case. At the very least you should have notified the issuing country of its loss so they could invalidate it in case someone tried to use it fraudulently.

Edited January 7, 2011 by Kathryn41

[The Earmuffs 0]

never filed anything because I was hoping it was in my house somewhere, but I moved and its still nowhere to be found. Its ben over 2 years but I guess I could go to the Canadian Consulate in Dallas. I think I may have left it in a photocopier in Kinkos. thats the only time Ive ever used it other then getting my K1 visa.