Posted on 12/17/2007 7:36:33 PM PST by skiddle_deboppop
I need to file my naturalization application. There are stamps on my passport that are not too clear. I need to enter the dates that I entered and exited the US. Does anybody know of a way that I can access the record of my entries or is it necessary to get an attorney?
Thanks.
I’d take a magnifying glass to the stamps, attach a xerox of these pages, indicate that relying on this material as best as you can read it—these are the relevant dates.
I just note the dates the best I can remember and put “Est” or “Approx” next to them... sometimes just he month and year will do. Never had an issue.
Hope all works out fine for ya!
Use you passport to go to Mexico, then sneak back across the border and put these other pesky little details out of your mind.
My stepmother went thru the legal process, which took years.
Just stay in the Country and wait for the next Amnesty, loose the Passport.
Enroll in college. Apply for instate tuition.
If you are in the Philly PA area, Geno’s cheesesteak shop has all the forms. He can help you out./sarc J/K
The government does keep records of entries and exits for Americans. I have no idea what they keep on foreign nationals. Whether they’ll share that information on request, I don’t know.
I’d contact ICE and ask them. My best guess as to the proper mechanism would be a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request, giving them as much info as possible (name, nationality, passport number, etc). Some agencies are quite cooperative in telling you how to FOIA them; others are less helpful.
Start with this link http://www.ice.gov/about/legal.htm#foia
If it doesn’t help, you are just out a few stamps and some time.
I forgot the standard disclaimer on my previous post.
Legal advice should only be obtained from an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction and who practices in the area of law of concern to you. General discussion of legal principles should not be construed to be legal advice as to any specific set of facts.
TRust me, as a retired lawyer who handled lots of immigration cases, this won’t work.
You might visit (not call) the public information office of your local Customs and Border Protection Office. Show them your passport and explain that you are applying for naturalization and need accurate dates. They may be able to query your dates on their computer system for you.
Good luck! I hope you will be voting for conservatives by the next election!
I need to file my naturalization application.
How long have you been a Lawful Permanent Resident (i.e., for how many years have you had your “green card”)?
Yes.
Probably not, but it’s worth a shot.
There are usually a pair of dates for each trip - an exit stamp from the US matched by an entry stamp for Frankfurt, for example, then a departure stamp for London matched by an entry stamp for the US. If travel was on to a 3rd area (say Russia), there’d be another set of stamps. A bit strange that none of the dates are legible for a trip.
I understand the record keeping, but do you understand how impossible it is to get anything out of those files? How long it would take to get a response ? How insignificant the exact dates are so long as he produced notarized copies of the stamps, an affidavit that he has no specific recollection other than the stamps and that as best he can read them they are_________?
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