I-600A Req for Additional Evidence

You are paying your homestudy agency and your placement agency for help in completing your adoption. A good agency should have contacts at the USCIS that the staff can call for an explanation. Many USCIS offices don't want to be deluged by calls from the general public, but have numbers that are available to the agencies. So get on the phone to your agency right away. Explain what happened, what you did, and so on. It should be able to help you. If it does not have good contacts, but is a member of JCICS, it should also be able to ask that organization to help in troubleshooting the problem. JCICS isn't staffed to work with individual families, but it is great about helping member agencies solve problems, and has excellent contacts within the USCIS. Sharon

He shouldn't have to go through his agency for such a simple requrement now should he.... I swear... sometimes I think processors have brain dammage! You can simply send them a copy of your passport. Get one if you don't have one cause you'll need it anyway. Johnny

My guess is that was a typo and it should say county OR state recorded birth cert. Sounds like they don't want a copy. It's easy to get one from the state in which you were born....of course I can't remember how I got ours, but I know I just googled something like "birth certificates" and a site came up from which you can order birth certificates from any state in the US. (There is a link to each state's vital records website, then you put in all sorts of identifying information, pay a few dollars, and they get it out to you).

It might be the age of the document that's causing the problem. Florida has gone to a new "certified copy of certification of birth" form and that may be what they are asking for. It looks VERY different from the old ones which were actual copies of your original birth certificate. I had no problem when I submitted with the new form. It costs $9 to order one and it says on their Website that it is "accepted by all state and federal agencies as legal proof of birth and citizenship". You can download the order form at [url="http://www.doh.state.fl.us/planning_eval/vital_statistics/birth_death.htm"]http://www.doh.state.fl.us/planning_eval/vital_statistics/birth_death.htm[/url].

Just because the document process has been revised it doesn't negate the legality of the original documents no matter how old they are. The original document would have to be rescinded through law and not a process. That would be really stupid thing to do, although Im sure it possible but most improbable. It sounds more like bureaucratic harassment to generate income by intimidating applicants to use the newly processed documents that they must pay for, if what you write is actually so.

Just to update how this issue resolved. I sent a letter to the San Antonio office pointing out that what I sent them WAS a certified birth certificate and I enclosed a copy of my passport. About 10 days later, I got a letter with my fingerprint information. Got that taken care of a week ago, and am now waiting on final approval.