How are Immigration Civil Documents Supposed to Look Like?

A Green Card Application Requires many personal documents like Birth Certificates and Police Reports. However, how are they expected to look like and where to get them? The Visa Reciprocity Charts of the Department of State how the U.S. Expectst them to look like.

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I wanted to mention and have people prepare for and something

I deal with all the time, which is when you are submitting

documents to USCIS or where the state department just the

US government for immigration purposes.

They expect documents to look in a certain way.

So if you're bring a marriage certificate, they expect the

marriage certificate or maybe the birth to be

in a certain way and the way they break it down as if you

go and type in Visa reciprocity charts.

This is a state department's website that breaks down how

documents should look like for every country.

So you go to the Visa reciprocity page for the Department

of State and there you look up the country are coming from

and has a breakdown of how certain document should look like

in those countries.

And if you your documents don't match that's a problem.

For example in France that birth certificates are issued

by the local city, city council or something like that and

the national one that's like a multi-language EU extract

of a birth certificate is not acceptable.

They won't accept that.

So you won't you mean typically you think this official-looking

document from the government there is okay, but it's not, it has to be

from the city and you find that out by going to the Visa

reciprocity page for France or wherever country your looking for

and then looking up the birth certificate factor.

And that's something I do when we start a case with a client.

First thing I do is see what how the documents look like

in their country and this constantly changes in the gets

updated. So even though I may have done ten cases from China,

I did 10 cases from Mexico every time I have to double check

to see if something has changed, of how it looks and how they

expect it and so do that the same for every case because you get

RFEs request for evidence and easy denials for not

providing the document that looks the proper way that it

should have.

So you go to these reciprocities check it out.

And sometimes I've had it where USCIS incorrectly says.

Oh, that's the wrong document and I print out the Visa Reciprocity

chart, highlight what it says is the correct document and

I'll resend that to them.

I had this in a case of Ukraine where woman got divorced

and the divorce certificate.

There's two types of if you have a child the divorce certificate

for Ukrainian person looks one way, but if you didn't have

children looks another. And they had a child so look one way and

he got an RFE request for evidence saying it's the inappropriate

incorrect divorce certificate and we had to respond back to

show that the difference of how the divorce certificates look

in that Country for a child.

So the individual cases here I'm talking about are just examples

but that's something to do to check how your documents are

supposed to look like according the Visa reciprocity chart

and if it's not it then send it back or contact your local

government or home government or wherever it is they say

hey, no, no.

No, this isn't how it's supposed to look like we need it

corrected because it will be a problem down the line.

[mikematos]

Do documents in Spanish need to be translated in English

[vikrantpatel]

This is perfect video of civil documents 🙌

[edilsonpena]

Thanks for the video, very nice. I m an adult son of a American citizen, co-sponsored by her husband. Now, i will be waiting for the interview, yet I m in a serious doubt about which documents i should take to the interview at the consulate.
Now, to bring my personal civil documents it is not a problem, yet it will be hard to bring mom's and co-sponsor civil docs, passports, drivers license, forms filled up before like i-864A, marriage certificate, etc... should i really bring originals for them also? since they are not with me, i m not sure I could leave mom in the US without them, what should I really bring, simple copies for any documents submitted from them?
At the end the summary is which documents should i bring originals of or notarized copies or simple copies?
Thank you so much

[jessima]

Pls help me I beg you ...I have lot of doubts



To submit the civil documents horizontally or vertically ? To scan the original or photo copy ?


2. How long will nVc takes to reply ? How to contact NVC ??? They are not picking my calll


3. I filled DS 260 with the passport number that I have now ...but to get pcc ..I need to add my spouse name so I will be issued with new passport ! Should I scan both passports and send ? That too horizontally or vertically ??? Should I send the first page only or BOTH the pages ? Pls reply me

[jessima]

Iam from India. Applying for green card visa my spouse is an US citizen ...in submitting civil documents, it should be scanned horizontally or vertically ?

[nadineamanda]

Hi! Awesome video you got here. Just a quick question. The civil documents tab in our CEAC portal went missing after I added my son as a derivative (as "Follow to Join"). I was able to add a few of our documents (mine and my daughter's). Does this mean our application is on hold?

[hayatmuhammad]

Dear Sir, My case was approved by USCIS on September 18, 2019, and forwarded to NVC, but NVC still not send me any notification for submitting any documents. My petition was for emigration visa and my position was Driver in Pizza company.. do you think the current situation will affect the further process of my case... thank you so much for your explanation.