Failure To Register For Selective Service Naturalization

Selective service registration is an important component of the naturalization process.

Failure to register for selective service naturalization. A uscis officer s decision that. Your sworn statement should offer reasons why you failed to learn about the selective service registration requirement. Nevertheless if you are requested to provide a status information letter you should present this letter to the uscis examiner handling your file. 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 knowingly and willingly register for selective service will actually disqualify certain individuals from the good moral character principle of the us naturalization.

Selective service registration requirements. Failure to register with selective service. Based on the statement uscis will determine whether failure to register for selective service was willful or knowing. Drafting a sworn declaration explaining your failure to register. Status information letters from the selective service system before uscis can conclude that there was a failure to register.

Several federal benefits can be denied to someone that has failed to register for selective service including u s. How it affects a citizenship application. If you have not yet turned 26 you can register for the selective service now to comply with the requirement. 8 the officer may request for the applicant to submit a status information letter and registration acknowledgement card before concluding that he failed to. 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.

22 the status information letter will indicate whether the applicant was required to register. Section 3 a of the military selective service act 50 u s c. 453 a provides that. 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.

You can request the status information letter from the selective service system website or by calling 847 688 6888. The selective service maintains a list of names in case there is a national emergency requiring rapid expansion of the armed forces. A subsection of part 12 of the n 400 form asks applicants between the ages of 26 31 years of age who did not register to attach a statement to the form explaining why they did not register.