DATABASE SEARCHES
The primary database used to verify Lawful Permanent Resident status.
What is PCQS?
The first thing you should do when documenting legal and physical custody.
What is determine if the applicant was born in-wedlock or out-of-wedlock?
Children born out of wedlock must be in the physical and legal custody of the naturalizing parent. If the parent naturalized is the father...
Must the father legitimate the child?
What document stamped in a passport proves legal entry to the United States?
What is an admission stamp or I-94?
This is an alternative identifier can be used when name searches fail.
What is the Alien Registration Number (A-Number)?
This helps determine the marital status of the applicant's parents.
What is a Marriage Certificate, Certificate of Naturalization, and for certain countries, the applicant's Birth Certificate?
Legitimation as a concept does not apply to.
Legitimation as a concept does not apply to the mother—only to an out-of-wedlock father.
What form replaced the paper I-94 for most air and sea travelers?
What is the electronic I-94?
"CLAIMS" stand for...
What is Citizenship and Lawful Immigration Management System?
A state and/or country grant all children equal rights, regardless of the parents' marital status.
Can state and/or country grant all children equal rights?
What type of visa allows temporary legal entry for visitors?
What is a B-1/B-2 nonimmigrant visa?
This system contains information about visa denials and ineligibilities.
What is the Consular Consolidated Database (CCD) or CLASS (Consular Lookout and Support System)?
This is presumed if the children of the residing with a surviving U.S. citizen natural parent (if the other parent is deceased).
What is having legal and physical custody.
Many foreign country and U.S. state laws provide that that child is rendered legitimate.
What happens when if the biological parents marry each other after the birth of a child, but before the child reaches majority (usually age 18)?
What document proves legal entry for a Lawful Permanent Resident returning to the U.S.?
What is a Green Card (I-551) with admission stamp or ADIT stamp?
This search technique involves using family member information to locate a record.
What is derivative searching or family-based searching?
The U.S. citizen parent's address is the same as the child's permanent or mailing address.
What may you assume if the applicant is residing with the U.S. citizen parent?
No further action needed to maintain that status once a child is legitimated.
Is further action necessary once a child is legitimated, no further action is needed to maintain that status?
What secondary evidence can establish legal entry when primary documents are unavailable?
What are affidavits, school records, employment records, or other documents showing presence after a known legal entry?