Failure To Register Selective Service Naturalization

Nevertheless if you are requested to provide a status information letter you should present this letter to the uscis examiner handling your file.

Failure to register selective service naturalization. More specifically if an applicant is required to register for selective service but knowingly and willfully fails to register his naturalization application is denied if he is 30 years old or younger. If an applicant fails to comply with the selective service registration requirements this can be cause to deny a naturalization application due to a lack of good moral character. 453 a provides that. Citizenship and immigration services uscis can deny your application for naturalized citizenship. Failure to knowingly and willingly register for selective service will actually disqualify certain individuals from the good moral character principle of the us naturalization.

8 the officer may request for the applicant to submit a status information letter and registration acknowledgement card before concluding that he failed to register. A uscis officer s decision that. If you knew about the registration requirement and refused to put your name in u s. You can register by mail or online. Thus your failure to register with the selective servicesystem does not make you ineligible for naturalization because you are age 31 or older.

Failure to register for selective service will generally not prevent a man who was over 31 years of age from demonstrating that he is eligible for naturalization. If you have not yet turned 26 you can register for the selective service now to comply with the requirement. It shall be the duty of every male citizen of the united states and every other male person residing in the united states who on the day or days fixed for the first or any subsequent registration is between the ages of eighteen and twenty six to. Uscis will deny a naturalization application when the applicant refuses to register with selective service or has knowingly and willfully failed to register during the statutory period. Selective service registration requirements.

If you applied for a green card between the ages of 18 and 25 form i 485 gives uscis permission to give your information to the selective service system but you cannot rely on uscis to do this for you. Section 3 a of the military selective service act 50 u s c.