Required to bring foreign passport, have question

[Trav&Shell 83]

I have been scheduled to have my naturalization interview on July 11th and have a question:

 

- on the letter that USCIS sent, they requested I bring my Canadian passport with me. My Canadian passport is expired. Should I make every effort to get it renewed and back to me before that date, or will it matter?

[Mike E 11,730]

2 minutes ago, Trav&Shell said:

My Canadian passport is expired.

ok

2 minutes ago, Trav&Shell said:

 

Should I make every effort to get it renewed and back to me before that date

no

2 minutes ago, Trav&Shell said:

or will it matter?

Bring the expired passport.

[Trav&Shell 83]

1 minute ago, Mike E said:

ok

no

Bring the expired passport.

Good deal. This was the plan - I have my documents all prepared but wanted to be sure. Thanks!

[Crazy Cat 39,808]

18 minutes ago, Trav&Shell said:

I have been scheduled to have my naturalization interview on July 11th and have a question:

 

- on the letter that USCIS sent, they requested I bring my Canadian passport with me. My Canadian passport is expired. Should I make every effort to get it renewed and back to me before that date, or will it matter?

They just want to see the passport you have used to enter the US.  No need to have an unexpired one.  Good luck!!  There is light at the end of the USCIS tunnel!!

[JeanneAdil 6,289]

its just another form of photo ID plus proof of approved visa

the receptionist desk is the only place u will show this

sometimes 2 photos ID"s are required 

 

Edited June 16, 2023 by JeanneAdil

[Trav&Shell 83]

16 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

They just want to see the passport you have used to enter the US.  No need to have an unexpired one.  Good luck!!  There is light at the end of the USCIS tunnel!!

This one doesn’t have the visa sticker in it - the Canadian passport office kept that one when I renewed it in 2016. It does have my re-entry stamp though (I went home for a month when my father was dying). That will work, right?

 

Thank you!! My in-laws have been quizzing me on civics every time I see them, they’re so excited. 🥰

18 minutes ago, JeanneAdil said:

its just another form of photo ID plus proof of approved visa

the receptionist desk is the only place u will show this

sometimes 2 photos ID"s are required 

 

Oh ok, so green card/passport/Virginia drivers license covers all those bases. Perfect!

[.yana 586]

33 minutes ago, Trav&Shell said:

This one doesn’t have the visa sticker in it - the Canadian passport office kept that one when I renewed it in 2016. It does have my re-entry stamp though (I went home for a month when my father was dying). That will work, right?

One of the comments above is incorrect: they don't need it to verify your legal entry to the US, it's just a 2nd form if ID + proof that you have another nationality. 

 

By the time I had my Oath ceremony, I was on my 3rd passport which was completely blank 😅

[Trav&Shell 83]

19 minutes ago, .yana said:

One of the comments above is incorrect: they don't need it to verify your legal entry to the US, it's just a 2nd form if ID + proof that you have another nationality. 

 

By the time I had my Oath ceremony, I was on my 3rd passport which was completely blank 😅

LOL! Well, that’s a relief! I’m bringing my Canadian birth certificate too, just in case they question why the passport is expired (proof that I was conferred Canadian citizenship at birth, lol). 
 

Tax transcripts were not mentioned on my application and were not mentioned in my notice of interview. However, I saw them mentioned on a list of documents for N400. Should I bring them anyway, just in case?

[Crazy Cat 39,808]

2 hours ago, .yana said:

One of the comments above is incorrect: they don't need it to verify your legal entry to the US, it's just a 2nd form if ID + proof that you have another nationality. 

 

By the time I had my Oath ceremony, I was on my 3rd passport which was completely blank 😅

I didn't say they want the old passport to verify lawful status.

 

This is directly from interview letter:

"You MUST BRING the following with you to the interview:

• This letter. • Your Alien Registration Card ("green card").

• Any evidence of Selective Service Registration.

• Your passport and/or any other documents you used in connection with any entries into the United States.

• Those items noted below which are applicable to you:"

 

Of course, you can't bring what you don't have.....

Our IO even wanted to see wife's ADIT stamp.....

Edited June 16, 2023 by Crazy Cat

[randomstairs 270]

1 hour ago, Trav&Shell said:

Tax transcripts were not mentioned on my application and were not mentioned in my notice of interview. However, I saw them mentioned on a list of documents for N400. Should I bring them anyway, just in case?

Yes, do bring the tax transcripts! They probably won't ask for them but it's possible. 

[Trav&Shell 83]

53 minutes ago, randomstairs said:

Yes, do bring the tax transcripts! They probably won't ask for them but it's possible. 

Will do - I’ll print them today. Thanks! 

[Trav&Shell 83]

57 minutes ago, Crazy Cat said:

I didn't say they want the old passport to verify lawful status.

 

This is directly from interview letter:

"You MUST BRING the following with you to the interview:

• This letter. • Your Alien Registration Card ("green card").

• Any evidence of Selective Service Registration.

• Your passport and/or any other documents you used in connection with any entries into the United States.

• Those items noted below which are applicable to you:"

 

Of course, you can't bring what you don't have.....

Our IO even wanted to see wife's ADIT stamp.....

Jeez…that’s a lot. I sure hope they don’t want that in my case! (And it’s going to be AMAZING to be able to finally shred the stacks and stacks of application documents we have kept for 11 years, lol…)

[Crazy Cat 39,808]

9 minutes ago, Trav&Shell said:

Jeez…that’s a lot. I sure hope they don’t want that in my case! (And it’s going to be AMAZING to be able to finally shred the stacks and stacks of application documents we have kept for 11 years, lol…)

Just take the passports you have.  Don't worry about the rest.  I was very uncomfortable discarding the documents we had collected during our journey since 2016.  That's what USCIS did to my brain...LOL...but I am so happy, now, to be out from under the thumb of USCIS.  

Edited June 16, 2023 by Crazy Cat

[JeanneAdil 6,289]

 

2 minutes ago, Trav&Shell said:

Jeez…that’s a lot. I sure hope they don’t want that in my case! (And it’s going to be AMAZING to be able to finally shred the stacks and stacks of application documents we have kept for 11 years, lol…)

we didn't shred ours as we filed a petition for a brother and that takes so many years i would forget dates that will be needed later

[Trav&Shell 83]

1 hour ago, Crazy Cat said:

Just take the passports you have.  Don't worry about the rest.  I was very uncomfortable discarding the documents we had collected during our journey since 2016.  That's what USCIS did to my brain...LOL...but I am so happy, now, to be out from under the thumb of USCIS.  

I'm finishing up with printing my tax transcripts, and am going to start to breathe again soon.  LOL.  We have got so many stacks of paper for them in our basement filing cabinet...sometimes I ask Travis if he's still convinced I was worth all the time/effort/money this took (he always laughs and says I was. )