Birth certificate laminated

[MiloPinkman 23]

I am Canadian citizen and living here for past 20 years, my wife is US citizen. I got a laminated birth certificate from my parents few years ago, which I have translated and notarized by a lawyer in Toronto. 

 

I don't have anyone in india to help me and to get the original record without laminated is now nearly impossible because in 80s i dont even know if this was stored in a digital database. I tried calling few places back home but obviously no good response. 

 

I have uploaded everything to NVC, waiting for their verification. But my question is in person interview, do you think they will give me a hard time with my laminated old birth certificate? I have original school leaving certificate and plan to take my parents affidavit as well. 

 

I just need some advice if while I wait for my interview if I should book a ticket to india and try to get this thing or wait it out and see if they ask me.

[Mike E 11,740]

1 hour ago, MiloPinkman said:

But my question is in person interview, do you think they will give me a hard time with my laminated old birth certificate?

I would assume you will get an RFE, but you might get lucky. 

[MiloPinkman 23]

3 minutes ago, Mike E said:

I would assume you will get an RFE, but you might get lucky. 

omg that mean I might have to go to India to get this sorted. This would cost me over $3000

This is nuts lol in my all 20 years to migrate to Canada and becoming a citizen never have I ever needed my birth certificate

 

[Mike E 11,740]

Just now, MiloPinkman said:

omg that mean I might have to go to India to get this sorted. This would cost me over $3000

This is nuts lol in my all 20 years to migrate to Canada and becoming a citizen never have I ever needed my birth certificate

 

Yeah when i immigrated from Canada to USA in the 1980s I didn’t need my birth certificate.  
 

Since then the USA had an immigration amnesty that didn’t cure illegal immigration and then it had 9/11.  
 

So now the USA wants immigrants to have legit birth records.  
 

Sorry.  

[HRQX 4,145]

12 minutes ago, Mike E said:

Since then the USA had an immigration amnesty that didn’t cure illegal immigration and then it had 9/11.

The numbers were somewhat constant after the 1986 amnesty but exploded to new heights in the years after the IIRIRA of 1996: https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RL33874.pdf