Failure To Register For Selective Service Naturalization

If you have not yet turned 26 you can register for the selective service now to comply with the requirement.

Failure to register for selective service naturalization. You can request the status information letter from the selective service system website or by calling 847 688 6888. Failure to register with selective service. How it affects a citizenship application. Section 3 a of the military selective service act 50 u s c. Status information letters from the selective service system before uscis can conclude that there was a failure to register.

A uscis officer s decision that. 453 a provides that. Drafting a sworn declaration explaining your failure to register. Citizenship problem created by failing to register for selective service. 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.

Selective service registration is an important component of the naturalization process. Nevertheless if you are requested to provide a status information letter you should present this letter to the uscis examiner handling your file. Selective service registration requirements. The selective service maintains a list of names in case there is a national emergency requiring rapid expansion of the armed forces. Based on the statement uscis will determine whether failure to register for selective service was willful or knowing.

Your sworn statement should offer reasons why you failed to learn about the selective service registration 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. The effect of failing to register can have various results depending upon the applicant s age up to and including rejection of the form n 400. You can register by mail or online. Several federal benefits can be denied to someone that has failed to register for selective service including u s.

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. 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.