I just recieved a Jury Summons- although I am not yet a Citizen

[Dylan'sWife 2]

Hi all, I have my civics test and interview this coming Monday.

A few days ago, I received a jury summons in the mail telling me to report for Jury Duty on Dec 3. I know that currently as a non USC I am exempt from Jury Duty but given that I am very near the end of the naturalization process, I am not sure if by Dec 3 I will be a USC.

My husband says I should just respond now, saying I am not a USC and send it in the mail. But part of me thinks that maybe I should bring it with me to my interview and ask the IO how to proceed as I am afraid it might look like I am 'trying to get out of jury duty' or that if I become a USC in by the time they process my reply, it will look like I lied in the responce.

[Gosia & Tito 199]

Reply now, with "Not a USC"; anything else equates to representing you are a USC and that is a big no no. It is immaterial what you will be on the day of the jury duty summons, they draw this requests out of driver's licenses records usually. There have been other posts here about this and I sort of recall one in which now the person was in a deportation process.

I can see your logic of waiting until the day of the test; but I think is safer to do it now.

Edited October 19, 2013 by Gosia & Tito

[Dylan'sWife 2]

Thanks for the reply

[NickD 202]

Just enclose a copy of your green card and mail that in with your circumstance with even a note, its against USCIS federal regulations to serve on jury duty as an LPR. Amazing the number of city, county, and state employees that don't know anything about immigration. And never even heard of the USCIS.

[Dylan'sWife 2]

Just enclose a copy of your green card and mail that in with your circumstance with even a note, its against USCIS federal regulations to serve on jury duty as an LPR. Amazing the number of city, county, and state employees that don't know anything about immigration. And never even heard of the USCIS.

Hi there, I agree that that's it odd how many government agencies seem to be so closed off from each other.

There is a exception box on the reply summons for jury duty that does allow me to check off that I am not a USC and to write my nationality. If I was months and month away from citizenship or not in the process, I would check it off and not think twice about it. ( I also got a jury summons a couple of years ago and that is what I did)

My concern is if I am lucky enough to get sceduled for my oath cermony in Nov, and I report my new status to SS and the DMV which will verify USC status- and then afterwards someone from the jury comission checks my status it would have looked like I lied.

But I suppose, if that did happen it would come down to the fact that was true and accurate when I wrote it.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

They send out jury duty notices from magazine subscriptions and the like. It's completely correct to tell them you are not a USC. They messed up, not you.

[Pinkrlion 2,612]

If you do not reply and attend jury duty, it will be your fault for fraud as a USC. Regardless of when your interview is scheduled.

[Harsh_77 716]

Nope you are not USC when you received the summon... so you can mark not a USC and send it back.

Lot of cities just randomly pull name from their DMV database and send the summons.

[BigDaddy28 228]

I would advice you to not to gamble with that because USCIS can get back on you and tell you that you knew about the jury duty and didn't respond to them knowing you are not a citizen at that time. I would tell you to send it back with the explanation that you are not a US citizen even though you might be a citizen that time. Good luck.

[Shub 78]

It happened to me once, I called the courthouse, told them I didn't understand why they sent me one since I'm not an American citizen, they told me to ignore the summons and discard it, which I did and never heard anything again. You may want to return them their paperwork with a note saying you're not an American citizen, just so there's a paper trail.

[N400-2011 24]

I got one in the mail on the Monday of the same week my oath ceremony was scheduled. Dropped the response in the mail immediately with a copy of my greencard.

A couple months later, I got another summons in the mail...I kept that appointment since I was now a citizen.

[agniecha78 1]

I got one a few months ago when I didn't even apply for citizenship yet. I went online and it took me a couple of minutes to fill something out that said I can't do it. Reason : not a citizen, green card holder and I put in my card's #. I got an email the next day saying they received it and I'm all set

[Reje 0]

Hi,

I recieveda jury summons too 2 weeks back. It is very important that we respond to that regardless. I called up the number and did what the letter said.

[Harsh_77 716]

It happened to me once, I called the courthouse, told them I didn't understand why they sent me one since I'm not an American citizen, they told me to ignore the summons and discard it, which I did and never heard anything again. You may want to return them their paperwork with a note saying you're not an American citizen, just so there's a paper trail.

Not sure how your summon was but most of the summons have check box indicating you cannot vote in US – so you are supposed to mark that and send it back.

You cannot just discard the summon.

I got one a few months ago when I didn't even apply for citizenship yet. I went online and it took me a couple of minutes to fill something out that said I can't do it. Reason : not a citizen, green card holder and I put in my card's #. I got an email the next day saying they received it and I'm all set

They just pull the names from DMV database.

[agniecha78 1]

It happened to me once, I called the courthouse, told them I didn't understand why they sent me one since I'm not an American citizen, they told me to ignore the summons and discard it, which I did and never heard anything again. You may want to return them their paperwork with a note saying you're not an American citizen, just so there's a paper trail.

That was one of my friend's advice " just throw it in the trash "- not a very good one. It doesn't really take that much time out of your day to reply why you can't do it. Also, probably not the best idea for me to ignore it, if I'm planning on being interviewed for citizenship in the near future. Not sure they can see it if I ignored the note or not, but if they do somehow have access to it , then it doesn't really look good that I blew them off