birth certificate/documents to bring to interview

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Dear forum members,

I finally have my interview date coming up after a long delay due to a cross country move (my tip to forum members: don't change the interview date).

I suppose I should not have sent the "original" certified copies in the file to USCIS? My certified copy of arrest record, birth certificate and marriage are in the file I sent them. I wondered about this because of the interview letter, as well as the attached letter about arrests, which says to bring original documents to the interview.

Regarding the birth certificate: I do not have a document issued at time of birth, nor can I get it because my country of birth keeps the originals in their vaults (or even just has the data in their computers, I think) and only provides certified extracts. I did not get an RFE so I believe I'm fine here. The certified extract provides my name, d.o.b, place of birth, parents full names. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

r

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Dear forum members,

I finally have my interview date coming up after a long delay due to a cross country move (my tip to forum members: don't change the interview date).

I suppose I should not have sent the "original" certified copies in the file to USCIS? My certified copy of arrest record, birth certificate and marriage are in the file I sent them. I wondered about this because of the interview letter, as well as the attached letter about arrests, which says to bring original documents to the interview.

Regarding the birth certificate: I do not have a document issued at time of birth, nor can I get it because my country of birth keeps the originals in their vaults (or even just has the data in their computers, I think) and only provides certified extracts. I did not get an RFE so I believe I'm fine here. The certified extract provides my name, d.o.b, place of birth, parents full names. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

r

Certified extracts are fine. If they have the originals, they probably won't request them, but yes, the bottom line is you should bring the originals of whatever documents you submitted to USCIS to the interview. In this context, original means the original certified copy that you receive from the responsible recordkeeper. You obviously can't demand the sole original they keep in their vault.