"Wet Signatures" For N-600 Physical Custody Evidence

[butmajor-leagueas 15]

Hi, trying to figure out if a wet signature is required for stuff like physical custody documents if it is a letter for instance from a medical provider, school, etc.?

 

i.e. does the person who wrote that letter for you have to provide a wet signature?

[Dashinka 25,944]

For the original, yes, but since the N600 is an online form, it would be a scanned copy.

 

Good Luck!

[butmajor-leagueas 15]

Thanks, I guess I gotta reach out again to the organization who wrote the letter and ask them to provide one with a wet signature instead...

[Dashinka 25,944]

20 minutes ago, butmajor-leagueas said:

Thanks, I guess I gotta reach out again to the organization who wrote the letter and ask them to provide one with a wet signature instead...

On second thought, probably not a big deal.  I remember we rarely dealt with wet signatures, even at the consulate stage and had no issues.

 

Good Luck!

[butmajor-leagueas 15]

That's what I was thinking too, but I am kinda scared / worried if they'd say in the end that it is not "good enough."

 

Plus, the physical custody evidence I have from the year I derived U.S. Citizenship from my parent is quite limited and extremely unavailable, since it is documentation from around 20y ago when I was a kid...

[OldUser 10,117]

2 hours ago, butmajor-leagueas said:

That's what I was thinking too, but I am kinda scared / worried if they'd say in the end that it is not "good enough."

 

Plus, the physical custody evidence I have from the year I derived U.S. Citizenship from my parent is quite limited and extremely unavailable, since it is documentation from around 20y ago when I was a kid...

Many forms ask for wet signature even if it's then scanned into digital format. It's not a bad idea to get wet signature.

[butmajor-leagueas 15]

Indeed.

 

Getting a wet signature document and scanning it is diff vs if it never had a wet signature in the first place.

[OldUser 10,117]

By the way, @butmajor-leagueas there's this thread where people are discussing the N-600 and whether it's worth applying for it. Could you share your reasons there for applying for N-600?

 

Thank you

[butmajor-leagueas 15]

33 minutes ago, OldUser said:

By the way, @butmajor-leagueas there's this thread where people are discussing the N-600 and whether it's worth applying for it. Could you share your reasons there for applying for N-600?

 

Thank you

 

I responded but didn't go into much detail, unfortunately. My apologies, but I just don't want to think about it too much since I'm... exhausted.

 

I hope that I can finalize everything for my N-600 Application soon, submit it, and have a painless and speedy adjudication so I can be completely done with USCIS for good...

[OldUser 10,117]

3 minutes ago, butmajor-leagueas said:

 

I responded but didn't go into much detail, unfortunately. My apologies, but I just don't want to think about it too much since I'm... exhausted.

 

I hope that I can finalize everything for my N-600 Application soon, submit it, and have a painless and speedy adjudication so I can be completely done with USCIS for good...

I really appreciate your insights there.

We rarely get anybody in your situation. Usually, people wonder about it around the time getting first passports for their children, and many don't understand the value.

 

Keep us posted on your N-600, I hope you get it quick!

[butmajor-leagueas 15]

3 minutes ago, OldUser said:

I really appreciate your insights there.

We rarely get anybody in your situation. Usually, people wonder about it around the time getting first passports for their children, and many don't understand the value.

 

Keep us posted on your N-600, I hope you get it quick!

 

Thanks, and yeah, the reason why people in my situation are rare is since most other INA 320 citizens (and even INA 301 / 309 citizens) are probably oblivious about it. Even I didn't know about this nuance until around a year ago when I realized that my mom had a CoN, my dad has a CoN, but I have... an ancient permanent resident card?

 

Then, I went into a rabbit hole and was kinda disillusioned after seeing that a country's system and lawmakers have even allowed things to be like this. Especially when an INA 320 citizen would need this to be sorted out the most. We were children when our parents went through the immigration process. We likely never filled out a single immigration form, so throwing us into the deep end for such a form in itself is ridiculous.

 

My two cents to the naysayers on this forum is that even if they don't want to file their child's N-600 application, at least have a complete application ready for them when they turn 18. Have all of the documents needed, especially the ones around legal and physical custody which are extremely difficult to find many years into the future if they haven't been collected previously.

 

And maybe their 18 year old child might be able to even qualify for a fee waiver since... I mean... I don't think a lot of 18 year olds make a lot of money. At least I didn't.

[top_secret 2,720]

On 8/1/2025 at 7:37 PM, butmajor-leagueas said:

Hi, trying to figure out if a wet signature is required for stuff like physical custody documents if it is a letter for instance from a medical provider, school, etc.?

 

i.e. does the person who wrote that letter for you have to provide a wet signature?

 

None of the evidence of actual physical custody that we submitted was signed at all.  We just chose some medical letters and records and school records that showed our daughter concurrently living at the same address as mom.   The main point was that the address and dates matched with mom and they were on whatever letterhead or form that the school/doctor/insurance company actually used.

[butmajor-leagueas 15]

3 minutes ago, top_secret said:

 

None of the evidence of actual physical custody that we submitted was signed at all.  We just chose some medical letters and records and school records that showed our daughter concurrently living at the same address as mom.   The main point was that the address and dates matched with mom and they were on whatever letterhead or form that the school/doctor/insurance company actually used.

Got it - thanks for this info. Do you mind also sharing the number of documents you submitted as evidence? 1? 2? 3?

[top_secret 2,720]

17 hours ago, butmajor-leagueas said:

Got it - thanks for this info. Do you mind also sharing the number of documents you submitted as evidence? 1? 2? 3?

 

We probably went WAY overkill on the proof of actual physical custody because when we got her US passport that was the one area where the passport agency said we needed more evidence than we had initially provided.  The passport agency was really focused on us showing school records in particular, though USCIS may have different priorities.  We filed online so we had one big multipage pdf named "proof_of_actual_pysical_custody.pdf.

 

Inside we had:
Scans of her California State DMV ID card and moms California driver's license, both showing the same address.
Scan of her school ID from our local neighborhood school.
Her enrolment and attendance printout as provided by her school.
A report card covering the trimester when mom naturalized.
A copy of a California State annual standardized testing report letter they mailed to her home address.
A scan of her health insurance card and the mailer it came in.
An "Explanation of Benefits" letter from her health insurance regarding some vaccine she got.
A medical appointment letter.
An after-visit summary report from a checkup appointment we downloaded online.
An insurance notice letter they mailed to our home address regarding some change in their billing system.
Her Social Security card and the mailer it came in showing her home address.
We separately included a tax transcript where we had claimed her as a dependent.

 

Other than the DMV ID and driver's license, none of that had any kind of signatures.  We were mainly focused on proving her home address was the same as moms at the time mom naturalized.

BTW, I didn't see if you mentioned having your US passport already.  While we totally agree it is important to file the N-600, a US Passport requires exactly the same evidence but is faster, easier and cheaper so it makes sense to do that first. We got our daughters US passport in just one day with an expedited appointment at a passport agency (requires rather flimsy proof of planned international travel in the next 14 days to get an expedited appointment)

[OldUser 10,117]

@top_secret considering one has only one chance at N-600, providing as much proof as possible isn't a bad idea