Civilly registered Long-form certificate (birth certificate)

[NinoniAndBoosBoos 6]

Hi, Apologies but I coudn't find a thread on this specific topic: Civilly registered Long-form certificate (birth certificate), how different is this than a photo copy of the birth certificate of the petitioner for proving US citizenship. We received a RFE with this and of the research i found that the CA Dept of Public Health may take 10 weeks to process a Requests for Certified Copies, is the Certified copy the same as the civilly registered long form certificate. They are also asking for ALL the pages of our passports, only one page of my passport has a stamp on it, all the other pages are blank as is the petitioners...

[YuAndDan 153]

Moving this to the K-1 forum, it sounds like you are dealing with an RFE for the I-129F petition.

A US citizen can use, Birth Cert, or Complete copy of US passport as proof of citizenship. Beneficiary's birth cert is need at the time of visa interview. Also beneficiary's passport should not be needed for filing an I-129F petition, they are probably asking for a full copy of petitioner's passport as alternate proof of US Citizenship.

[NinoniAndBoosBoos 6]

they are specifcally asking for civilly registered long form birth certificate...I would hate to assume that a copy of birth certificate and all the pages of US passport will be sufficient to prove US citizenship, but we may have to provide this as we are not able to get a "live" person at USCIS customer service, I did email the CSC for assistance, lets see if that works.

[SRS77 4]

i received an RFE for the same thing last month. they just want proof that the petitioner is a US citizen. the copy of your birth certificate that you originally sent in probably wasn't the correct one they require. i too only sent in my birth certificate when i originally submitted my petition. in my RFE response i sent a color copy of every page of my passport, even the blank pages. i was approved earlier this month! i would say if you have already submitted a copy of your birth certificate then submit copies of every page of your passport.

good luck!

[udong2 3]

Hi I try to find right answer but couldnt find the answer that I want to know. your post is closest one so I'm leaving msg here...

I urgently need help right now. We sent out all document to uscis this Monday and I just found out we didnt pay attention for Birth Certificate. My boyfriend is a US citizen and born in California. He went to county clerk office to get B/C. We sent original B/C not copied one but not sure if it is long form or abstract one. In his one page b/c, both parents name and age, his dad's signatures on it and phisician's signature on it and it is sealed and signed from county clerk. but no ssn of parents birthday.

I am totally freaked out. would you share information what you finally got?(does it actually took 10 weeks?? If so, we'd better get it done before we receive REF from uscis) Civilly registered long form certificate from califonia county, what information contains in it? When you send b/c in the first place, was it wallet size short version?

Thanks in advance. I really try to find right answer in this website but couldnt find recent post... pleas help...