Rajeev Tipnis

I am in the process of filing I-485 for my mother-in-law.

She does not have a Birth Certificate. I understant that the following can be submitted instead:

1. An affidavit from two family members who were present at her time and place of birth (however, a few questions on this):
- does anyone have a sample format for this ?
- should there be a separate affidavit from each family member or one could be signed by both ?
- does this affidavit have to "notarized" ?


2. Secondly, I understand that one also needs a document from an official government body at the place of birth that can say that the birth certificate of the person is unavailable. Is this absolutely required ? Since my mother-in-law was born in SriNagar, in India, it is virtually impossible to go there given the political situation there.


Thanks in advance,

Rajeev

Thomas

Rajeev,

A School Leaving Certificate, if your Mother-in-law, has one, would do the trick.

What did you do while applying for her passport? There should be some document that the passport authorities accepted. Try that. Above all, explain the circumstances to DIMA. Tell them that in your place there was no practice of issuing/obtaining birth certificates during that period (should be 40-50 years ago, right?)

Good Luck

Jaj

This guy is talking about an I-485 which is an American immigration form (adjustment
of status, I think), so what he's doing posting the question here rather than
misc.immigration.usa I don't know.

Jeremy

    >On 25 Apr 2002 03:30:07 GMT, Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:

    >Rajeev,
    >
    >A School Leaving Certificate, if your Mother-in-law, has one, would do the trick.
    >
    >What did you do while applying for her passport? There should be some document that
    >the passport authorities accepted. Try that. Above all, explain the circumstances to
    >DIMA. Tell them that in your place there was no practice of issuing/obtaining birth
    >certificates during that period (should be 40-50 years ago, right?)
    >
    >Good Luck
    >
    >
    >
    >--
    >Tom
    >
    >Posted via http://britishexpats.com

    >On 25 Apr 2002 01:30:21 GMT, Rajeev Tipnis <[email protected]> wrote:

    >I am in the process of filing I-485 for my mother-in-law.
    >
    >She does not have a Birth Certificate. I understant that the following can be
    >submitted instead:

Rajeev Tipnis

Yes, I posted this message in this forum by mistake. Sorry about that.

Thanks anyway.

Rajeev